By Maydaa Abo El-Nadar April 2017 witnessed numerous victories for Egyptian squash players. At the beginning of the month, on April 2, Egypt’s Hana Moataz was the Christchurch Vets Ipswich Open’s runner up. Moataz claimed her first ever Professional Squash Association’s title in 2016, thanks to winning the Grand Sport Armenia 1st Challenger 5. (Photo credit: PSA’s official site) Egyptians Mohamed El-Sherbini and Omar Bahgat competed at the Assore & Baldwin Parkview Open, which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 10 till April 13. Bahgat exited the tournament in the first round after losing a hard match to South Africa’s Gareth Naidoo, by a score of 3-2 (11-9/9-11/8-11/13-11/11-9). El-Sherbini survived to the final and beat India’s Velavan Senthilkumar by 3-1 (11-8/11-7/10-12/11-8). This was El-Sherbini’s first ever PSA title. It seems that South Africa is the city of luck for the Egyptian champion as it did not take El-Sherbini long to seal his second PSA title. On April 21, he won the West Rand Open in Roodepoort, South Africa. Moving to another South African city and in the painteresque city of Cape Town, El-Sherbini clinched his third PSA title in row,…
April 2017: A Roundup of a Bright Season for Egypt’s Squash Players
April 30, 2017
