Tag: women squash
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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…
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Perry Powers to Career-Biggest title at Granite Open
Canada, Feb 21, 2015: Just five days after winning the British National crown for the first time, England’s Sarah-Jane Perry powered to the biggest international squash title of her career after upsetting India’s Dipika Pallikal in the final of the Women’s Granite Open in Canada. Success in the WSA International 25 event in its fourth…
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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…
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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…
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Champions meet Mauritians
London, July 17, 2014: Champions meet Mauritians, A pair of players from the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius will provide the first challenge to gold medallists Nick Matthewand Nicol David in the draws for the 2014 Commonwealth Games Squash singles events next week in Glasgow, which are revealed today by the World Squash Federation. Englishman…
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Women’s City of Perth WA Open
Perth, May 26, 2014: Dutch champion Milou van der Heijden picked up the second WSA World Tour squash title of her career when she beat home hope Sarah Cardwell in the final of the Women’s City of Perth WA Open in Western Australia. It was after a four-game semi-final win over fourth-seeded Korean Kim Ga-Hye…
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Nicol Reclaims Crown in Women’s Allam British Open
England, May 18, 2014: World number one Nicol David avenged her title loss last year by beating England’s defending champion Laura Massaro in today’s final of the Women’s Allam British Open Squash Championship to win the historic Women’s Squash Association (WSA) World Series Platinum title at the Sports Arena in Hull for the fifth time…
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Nouran Ahmed Gohar grabs Irish Open
Dublin, Apr 26, 2014: Egypt’s No4 seed Nouran Ahmed Gohar clinched her second Women’s Squash Association World Tour title as a 16-year-old when she upset second-seeded English opponent Sarah Kippax in today’s final of the Women’s Cannon Kirk Homes Irish Open, the WSA Tour 15 event at Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club in Dublin. The youngest…
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Korean Ahn Maintains Malaysian Momentum
Negeri Sembilan, Apr 22, 2014: Korean Eun Chan Ahn picked up her second title in Malaysia this year as a complete outsider when she defeated Norway’s Lotte Eriksen in the final of the Malaysian Tour Squash Circuit No.3, the Women’s Squash Association World Tour 5 event at the Seremban 2 Sport Complex in Negeri Sembilan.…
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Chinappa charges to breakthrough Richmond triumph
Virginia, USA, Apr 20, 2014: Indian squash star Joshana Chinappa sensationally ended a career-long losing run to Australia’s former world champion Rachael Grinham when she upset the top seed in straight games in the final of the Women’s Richmond Open to win the inaugural Women’s Squash Association World Tour event in the USA. Chinappa, the 27-year-old…