Thierry Lincou

Top-seeds get through to the World Open quarters!

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...

Favourites get to the quarters!

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...

The First 4 matches on day 2 in Qatar …

The First 4 matches on day 2 in Qatar did end with victories of the favourite players in different styles. While Australian 11th seed David Palmer did not feel at his best, he was still in control to beat the Englishman Jonathan Kemp 11-5, 11-9, 11-6 i...

Lincou outs Shabana for semi-spot in El Gouna!

Veteran Frenchman Thierry Lincou (pic le) celebrated his 11th victory over career-long rival Amr Shabana (pic ri) in the quarters of the El Gouna International Open. Though the 34-year-old Lincou went into the match 10-13 down in their overall head-to-...

Cameron downed Barker at El Gouna!

At the El Gouna International Open, the last four matches of the 2nd round took place today. In the first match the 13th seed Australian Cameron Pilley (pic) came back from one game down to beat English No6 seed Peter Barker after 62 minutes (6-11, 11-...

Amr Shabana out of US Open!

Before the start of the US Open in Chicago No.1 seed Egyptian Amr Shabana pulled out of the 5-star PSA tournament and Frenchman Thierry Lincou slipped to the top position. One very interesting question rises when you are looking at the tournament's web...

Darwish survived 2nd round Hong Kong encounter!

Former world no.1 Karim Darwish claimed his anticipated place in the quarter-finals of the Hong Kong Open. The 4th-seeded Egyptian was taken the full distance before overcoming Australian Cameron Pilley in the 2nd round of the $147,500 event. Darwish, ...

Eight top seeds complete the quarters!

Also the last four matches of 2nd round of the Australian Open went into the favourites (four former world no. 1) direction. 5th seed Frenchman Greg Gaultier never let Englishman Tom Richards get into the match and Egyptian Karim Darwish always stayed ...