The CIB PSA World Tour Finals semi-finals are taking place these days at the Mall of Arabia in Cairo, Egypt, as we take one step toward determining our champions. Join us here for reviews and reactions, or watch LIVE on SQUASH TV (the rest of the globe), Eurosport Player (Europe’s handiest), or the PSA World Tour Facebook page (apart from Europe and Japan).
Not in a position to observe? Then, observe our stay scoring page. Up first is an all-Egyptian conflict between World No.1 Raneem El Welily and World No.5 Nour El Tayeb as they move head-to-head for an area within the very last at 19:00 nearby time (UTC+2). The two Egyptians are not strangers to going through each other at the PSA Tour this season, with the duo developing towards every other three instances this season. El Welily claimed the ultimate victory inside the last four stages of the DPD Open in Eindhoven on the path to lifting the identity. At the same time, El Tayeb was given the better of the World No.1 in February’s semi-finals of the PSA World Championships.
El Welily has been in strong form thus far this week, winning all of her Group A suits simultaneously as El Tayeb gained of her fits, including a dominant victory over England’s Sarah-Jane Perry the day passed to ebook her area within the remaining four. They are followed on the court with the aid of defending champion, World No.2 Mohamed ElShorbagy, and previous World No.1 and World Champion Karim Abdel Gawad. ElShorbagy and Gawad have acquainted opponents on the PSA Tour, with the two Egyptians going head-to-head on 13 preceding occasions.
ElShorbagy has ten victories over Gawad’s three, including four victories this year alone. Gawad’s closing win over the World No.2 got here in December’s Black Ball Squash Open when Gawad changed into a scintillating shape to boost their identity and robotically qualify for the World Tour Finals. They are accompanied on the court by the second women’s semi-very last to see Egypt’s Nouran Gohar pitted against France’s Camille Serme. The remaining meeting among these gamers remains clean inside the reminiscence, with Gohar getting the better of the Frenchwoman in the final of closing month’s British Open.
Gohar became bold in Hull to energy to victory and wrote her name within the squash history books and her 2d foremost identity. In the meantime, he has a lot of fun on this huge occasion and tries to get revenge on the young Egyptians when they pass head-to-head later that night. The closing semi-final sees some other all-Egyptian warfare, with Mohamed Abouelghar taking on Tarek Momen. Abouelghar claimed a big victory the day before today byby defeating Gawad 2-0 within the group stages to ensure that he qualified in advance of World No.1 Ali Farag and at the top of Group A.
‘The Bullet’ has been in sturdy shape all week, claiming two victories over Gawad and New Zealand’s Paul Coll to ensure he reached the ultimate four on the World Tour Finals for the first time in his profession. Momen can also propose in his first semi-final at the season-finishing occasion once you have the better of Peru’s Diego Elias the day before today in a straight shootout to qualify. Abouelghar and Momen have met nine instances previously at the PSA Tour, with the latter taking all of those victories. Can Abouelghar cause extra upsets in Cairo?
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Egypt’s World No.1 Raneem El Welily booked her region in the final PSA World Tour Finals after defeating compatriot and World No.5 Nour El Tayeb 2-1 in an interesting war. These players are not strangers to facing each other on the PSA Tour, with the 2 Egyptians facing every other three instances already this season, with two going all the way to five in epic battles.
El Tayeb recorded a victory over El Welily in the semi-finals of the PSA World Championships in February, which became voted by lovers because of the Women’s PSA Match of the Season. Still, she is not able to duplicate that feat tonight. World No.1 El Welily, aiming to win her first World Tour Finals name, started strongly to open up a lead, earlier than El Tayeb started to fight back. Both players placed their first-rate squash on the show, with El Welily specifically showcasing her aptitude with outrageous photographs to take a 1-zero lead.
