Tag: Squash

  • World Junior Squash Championships Draws Predict Egyptian Double in NZ

    World Junior Squash Championships Draws Predict Egyptian Double in NZ

    London, June 15, 2017: Egyptians are seeded to win both individual titles in the WSF World Junior Squash Championships NZ next month in New Zealand – claiming a seventh successive women’s title and reclaiming the men’s trophy after three years in Peruvian or Malaysian hands. The annual World Squash Federation event will take place at…

  • Rodriguez & Sobhy take PanAm Games Gold

    Rodriguez & Sobhy take PanAm Games Gold

    Toronto, July 14, 2015: Top seeds Miguel Angel Rodriguez, the world No.4 from Colombia, and Amanda Sobhy, the world No.10 from the USA, claimed gold in the 2015 Pan American Games squash singles finals in Canada – Sobhy winning her first Games medal at the Exhibition Centre in Toronto and Rodriguez becoming the first squash…

  • Maria Toorpakai Wazir Wins Maiden Homeland Title

    Maria Toorpakai Wazir Wins Maiden Homeland Title

    Rawalpindi, Pakistan, April 5, 2015: The first WSA World Tour squash event to be held in Pakistan for almost seven years produced the dream result when Peshawar powerhouse Maria Toorpakai Wazir won the title against expectations after overcoming the event’s top two seeds. The Bannu-born 24-year-old was seeded seven in the Bahria Town International Women’s Squash Tournament, the WSA Challenger 10 championship which attracted…

  • WSA hails new British Open agreement

    London, Feb 10, 2015: The Women’s Squash Association is hailing the ‘wonderful commitment’ by Dr Assem Allam to extend the sponsorship of the prestigious British Open in Hull for a further three years, including the goal to provide prize-money parity by 2017. The Allam British Open Squash Championships are set to return to the Yorkshire…

  • Nicol David Makes History As Longest-Reigning World No.1 Ever

    London, Feb 1, 2015: Malaysian Nicol David has created a new world record for the length of time a squash player has topped the world rankings after marking her 106th month as world number one in the February Women’s World Squash Rankings published by the Women’s Squash Association. The 31-year-old from Penang, who first headed…

  • El Welily became the first Egyptian winner of the Women’s J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions title

    New York, Jan 24, 2015: Raneem El Welily became the first Egyptian winner of the Women’s J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions title she defeated England’s Alison Waters in the final of the WSA International 100 squash event at Grand Central Terminal in New York. “Relaxed and happy and grateful,” said the third seed from Cairo…

  • Nicol David survives match-balls to claim record eighth World Title

    Cairo, Dec 20, 2014: In a dramatic climax to the Wadi Degla Women’s World Squash Championship, Malaysia’s world number one Nicol David saved four match-balls in the final of the 30th staging of the premier Women’s Squash Association tournament to overcome home favourite Raneem El Welily in a five-game 66-minute display of exhilarating squash at…

  • Nicol David wins historic US Open hat-trick

    Philadelphia, Oct 18, 2014: Malaysian superstar Nicol David claimed the latest historic achievement in her illustrious squash career when she beat Egypt’s Nour El Sherbini in the final of the Women’s Delaware Investments US Open in Philadelphia to become the first player in the 60-year history of the championship to win the title three times…

  • Diego Elias & Habiba Mohamed Crowned World Junior Champions

    Windhoek – Namibia, August 16, 2014: The 2014 WSF World Junior Squash Championships came to a resounding climax at the Wanderers Sports Club in the Namibia capital Windhoek when 15-year-old Egyptian Habiba Mohamed Ahmed claimed her third upset in as many days to become the second youngest ever winner of the women’s title, and Diego…

  • Diego Elias & Habiba Mohamed Crowned World Junior Champions

    Namibia, August 16, 2014: The 2014 WSF World Junior Squash Championships came to a resounding climax at the Wanderers Sports Club in the Namibia capital Windhoek when 15-year-old Egyptian Habiba Mohamed Ahmed claimed her third upset in as many days to become the second youngest ever winner of the women’s title, and Diego Elias made…