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Articles of the author Richard Eaton Agence France Presse
Gaultier's pain brings Shabana's survival
AL KHOBAR: Titleholder Amr Shabana came back from the brink of likely quarter-final defeat in the World Open as Gregory Gaultier's hopes ended in pain, tears, noisy controversy, and a damaged hamstring here on Wednesday. The great Egyptian was (...)

09 - 12 - 2010
Squash: Darwish optimistic of repeating heroics
AL-KHOBAR: Karim Darwish, who caused a surprise by snatching the season-end number one ranking while winning the Saudi International on this court two years ago, signaled his belief he can win the World Open on it this week. The 29-year-old from (...)

08 - 12 - 2010
Close-shave Shabana begins title defense in style
AL KHOBAR: Amr Shabana began the defense of his World Open title with a familiar clean sweep in three games and a clean pate for the first time in his life. The four-time champion from Egypt was content with his performance during a well-paced (...)

03 - 12 - 2010
Ashour seeks record cash prize in Gulf's squash World Open
AL KHOBAR: World number one Ramy Ashour will have the richest payday any squash player has ever had if he regains the World Open title this Thursday in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The brilliant Egyptian will earn $45,600 — part of a record-breaking (...)

01 - 12 - 2010
Quickfire David wins fifth Squash World Open title
SHARM EL SHEIKH: Nicol David equaled the record of five World Open titles held by Australia's Sarah Fitz-Gerald when she completed one of the most devastating spells of her career by beating Egypt's Omneya Abdel-Kawy in Wednesday's final. It took (...)

23 - 09 - 2010
David within one win of the record
SHARM EL SHEIKH: Nicol David moved to within one win of equaling the record of five World Open titles when she quelled the challenge of England's Alison Waters in straight games here on Tuesday. This earned David, who has spent fully 50 months at (...)

22 - 09 - 2010
Serme upsets world number two Duncalf
SHARM EL SHEIKH: Camille Serme, the finest woman squash player yet to emerge from France, will face off against Omneya Abdel Kawy, the fourth seeded Egyptian with the brilliant front court skills, in a semi-final after she scored the best win of her (...)

21 - 09 - 2010
Kawy maintains Egyptian glory hopes
SHARM EL SHEIKH: Omneya Abdel Kawy may wish to feed off the memories of two years ago in Cairo when she led Egypt to a world team title triumph with a surprise 2-1 win over the titleholders, England. Abdel Kawy got past the toughest first round (...)

20 - 09 - 2010
Quickfire David begins world title defense in style
SHARM EL SHEIKH: Nicol David made a rapidly successful start to her bid to equal the record of five World Open titles when she beat Farah Abdel Meguid, one of the world's most promising young players, in less than half an hour on (...)

19 - 09 - 2010
Shabana makes Egyptian squash history, lifts fourth Squash World Open title
KUWAIT CITY: Egypt's Amr Shabana won a fourth World Open title on Saturday defeating compatriot and defending champion Ramy Ashour 11-8, 11-5, 11-5. An angry Ashour was in tears at the end as his countryman equaled the achievement of Geoff Hunt, (...)

08 - 11 - 2009
Ashour and Shabana set up all-Egyptian final at Squash World Open
KUWAIT CITY: Ramy Ashour will play against compatriot and three-time world champion Amr Shabana in the final of squash World Open on Saturday, after beating world-number one Gregory Gaultier on Thursday After Thursday's game Gaultier launched (...)

06 - 11 - 2009
Abdel-Kawy eyes her first World Open squash semi
AMSTERDAM: Omneya Abdel-Kawy, the heroine of Egypt's world team title triumph, continued her bid to reach the world's top five for the first time by reaching her fifth World Open quarter-final. The sixth-seeded Abdel-Kawy did that with a (...)

25 - 09 - 2009
Squash: Omneya pushing up the pyramid
AMSTERDAM: Omneya Abdel-Kawy, who led her country to its most sensational squash triumph nine months ago, made a good start to her bid to become the first Egyptian woman in the world s top five by the end of this week. Winning the world team (...)

24 - 09 - 2009
Palmer performs Houdini act to take world title
Agence France-Presse CAIRO: David Palmer can count himself the bravest and Gregory Gaultier the unluckiest player there has ever been in a World Open final after the Australian beat the Frenchman 9-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-10, 11-2 in front of the (...)

08 - 09 - 2006
Gaultier all the fashion as he scents success
Agence France-Presse CAIRO: Gregory Gaultier earned himself a showdown with Amr Shabana, the world champion from Egypt, on Monday and made sure that two Frenchmen reached the semi-finals of the World Open for the first time with a display almost as (...)

06 - 09 - 2006
World squash champion Shabana through to the quarter-finals
Agence France-Presse CAIRO: World champion Amr Shabana was close to losing his world title to his best friend before reaching the quarter-finals in front of the Pyramids here on Saturday. The local hero was 2-8 down in the third game and had to (...)

04 - 09 - 2006
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