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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)