Nick Matthew
December 10, 2010 •
Tags: Al-Khobar, James Willstrop, Men's World Open, Nick Matthew, PSA, Saudi Arabia • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
One fact will be sure, even before the first rally will be played in tomorrow’s Saudi World Open final: For the 1st time of the World Open history (since 1976) the winner will be an Englishman. No, Peter Nicols title in Egypt 1999 did not count for E...
December 8, 2010 •
Tags: Al-Khobar, Amr Shabana, James Willstrop, Men's World Open, Nick Matthew, Peter Barker, PSA, Saudi Arabia • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
In the quarter-finals of the Saudi World Open 2 of the 4 matches ended as straight games wins as the others showed 2 players who had to concede their matches. Englishman and No1 seed Nick Matthew needed 38-minutes to beat French veteran Thierry Lincou ...
December 7, 2010 •
Tags: Al-Khobar, Amr Shabana, Greg Gaultier, Men's World Open, Nick Matthew, PSA, Saudi Arabia, Thierry Lincou • Categories: all posts, tournaments
The 1st four matches of round 3 of the Saudi World Open came out as top seed wins. English No1 seed Nick Matthew overcame Egypt Hisham Asour in style. But “it was not easy“ as Matthew commented after the match. Next player to take his quarter-final...
November 12, 2010 •
Tags: Amr Shabana, Doha, Greg Gaultier, Karim Darwish, Nick Matthew, PSA, Qatar, Qatar Classic • Categories: all posts, players, tournaments
It needed 71 minutes before 4-times world champion Amr Shabana (pic ri) of Egypt had the luckier end in the 5th games (3-11, 11-4, 11-7, 6-11, 12-10) against French star Greg Gaultier (pic le). “Anybody could have won, it was like flipping a coin”,...
November 11, 2010 •
Tags: Doha, Jenny Duncalf, Karim Darwish, Nick Matthew, PSA, Qatar, Qatar Classic, Rachael Grinham, WISPA • Categories: all posts, tournaments
Australian Rachael Grinham (pic) stayed on top of a five games shoot-out with Egyptian Raneem El Weleily (12-10, 9-11, 14-16, 11-7, 11-5). The following all-English match was controlled by Jenny Duncalf, who overcame Laura Massaro in straight games (11...
November 10, 2010 •
Tags: Daryl Selby, Doha, Karim Darwish, Nick Matthew, PSA, Qatar, Qatar Classic, Thierry Lincou • Categories: all posts, tournaments
The match of the two legends lasted 75 minutes, in which Frenchman Thierry Lincou (pic ri) had the better end against Australian David Palmer (pic le) (8-11, 11-4, 11-5, 3-11, 11-5). Afterwards 3rd seed Karim Darwish (EGY) shortened the head-to-heads t...
November 8, 2010 •
Tags: Alister Walker, Cameron Pilley, Daryl Selby, Doha, Nick Matthew, PSA, Qatar, Qatar Classic • Categories: all posts, tournaments
The last 4 matches of the 1st round didn’t show three tough encounters and the easy going of No.1 seed Nick Matthew (ENG) who ruled Qatar wild card Ahmad Mohd Al-Tamimi 21 minutes long (11-2, 11-3, 11-3). Australian Cameron Pilley came back from one ...
November 4, 2010 •
Tags: Nick Matthew, PSA, Ramy Ashour, Wael El Hindi, World Ranking • Categories: all posts, players
Ramy Ashour (pic) has strengthened his grip on the world number one ranking, according to the November Dunlop PSA rankings. Ashour was successful in 8 Super Series tournaments this year, in which he reached one semi-final, 4 runner-up places and took 3...
