Day ONE : Elias and Makin in opening upsets

The 2020 CIB PSA World Tour Finals got under way today at the Mall of Arabia with six best-of-three first round pool matches.

You can Watch Live on SquashTV / Eurosport Player, and we’ll have reports and roundup here …

CIB PSA World Tour Finals, Day ONE

MON 28th SEP, Day ONE

[1] Nour El Sherbini (Egy) 2-0 [8] Joelle King (Nzl)               11-9, 11-1 (22m)
[1] Ali Farag (Egy) 2-0 [8] Simon Rosner (Ger)                   12-10, 11-6 (31m)

[3] Nouran Gohar (Egy) 2-0 [6] Sarah-Jane Perry (Eng)    11-7, 12-10 (28m)
[6] Diego Elias (Per) 2-1 [4] Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy)  9-11, 11-3, 11-5 (54m)

[2] Nour El Tayeb (Egy) 2-0 [7] Amanda Sobhy (Usa)             11-5, 11-5 (17m)
[7] Joel Makin (Wal) 2-1 [2] Tarek Momen (Egy)             11-5, 6-11, 11-9 (50m)

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Makin and Elias in Day One upsets

Joel Makin and Diego Elias both won three game battles to produce big upsets on Day One in Cairo, beating World Champion Tarek Momen and defending champion Karim Abdel Gawad.

In earlier matches Nour El Sherbini, Nouran Gohar, Nour El Tayeb and Ali Farag provided home wins for those fans lucky enough to be in the socially distanced crowd.

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