Egypt’s male squash players have made history by having six players in the quarter-final stage of the Professional Squash Association (PSA) Men’s World Championship for the first time since the championship was created. According to the PSA website, “Ramy Ashour, Fares Dessouky and Tarek Momen all won to bring the third round action to a close at the Wadi Degla Club in Cairo.” The wins from Ashour, Dessouky and Momen come a day after world number one Mohamed El Shorbagy, Karim Abdel Gawad and Ali Farag also secured their spots in the quarter-finals of the championship. Dessouky’s landing in the quarter-final stage marks a first for the 18-year-old Alexandrian native, and was hard-earned after a “gladiatorial five-game battle with Malaysia’s Nafiizwan Adnan.” “It was a hard match for me. I had to focus in the fifth game, which was good for me to find out how good I am mentally. I kept pushing in the fifth game,” Dessouky said. “The crowd was incredible, it reminds me of the El Gouna tournament where they did the same thing to me. They stayed behind me and kept pushing me forward to win the matches…
Egyptians ‘Make History’ by Dominating Squash World Championship Quarter-Finals
November 1, 2016
