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Egyptian Squash Players Nour El-Sherbini and Ali Farag Win PSA World Championship in Chicago

March 3, 2019

Egyptian squash players Nour El-Sherbini and Ali Farag are awarded 2018-2019 PSA World Squash Championship titles for women and men on 2 March for the third time in a row. The championship began on 26 February to 2 March in Chicago, USA. The Egyptian duo El-Sherbini and Farag landed the titles after defeating Nour El Tayeb and Tarek Momen respectively. Two-time champion and world number two El-Sherbini faced a tough test to snatch the title as she defeated her compatriot Nour El-Tayeb Alexandria-based 23-year-old El Sherbini, who is a three times World Champion winner and the youngest woman to win the Women’s World Championship, defeated her competitor El Tayeb 3-1 (11-6, 11-5, 10-12 and 15-13) in 57 minutes. “I think I’m out of words!” El-Sherbini said after scoring her winning point. “The last two games were really close and she was coming back. I think she likes it like that – she was a little bit tense in the first two games and then she started to relax. I was trying to focus point after point and I’m really happy of course,” she reflected. “It was really tough tournament for me,…


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