World No.1 Mostafa Asal and World No.4 Joel Makin will lock horns once again after being drawn together in men’s Group A of the SmartCentres PSA Squash Tour Finals which brings the 2024-25 season to a close.
Staged at Toronto’s Revival Film Studios, the SmartCentres PSA Squash Tour Finals will be held in Canada for the first time in the tournament’s history. The top eight players who qualified via the Road to Tour Finals standings will square off for the season-ending finale.
Points for the Road to Tour Finals standings were on offer at all World Events throughout the campaign, while winning a prestigious Diamond-level event or the PSA World Championships secured automatic qualification.
World Champion Asal finished top of the men’s standings and is seeded first in Group A ahead of Makin, who he beat in a fiery British Open semi-final battle earlier this month. Makin will be making his fourth appearance at the season-ending event.
Asal – who won this tournament in 2021, 2022 and 2023 – is attempting to become just the second man after the great Jansher Khan in 1998 to win the PSA Squash Tour Finals on four occasions. England’s Marwan ElShorbagy and former World Champion Tarek Momen are the other players drawn in Group A. 
British Open champion Diego Elias tops Group B after coming second in the standings. The Peruvian will look to become the first South American winner of the tournament and will compete alongside World No.3 Paul Coll, two-time winner Mohamed ElShorbagy and 2019 champion Karim Gawad.
World No.1 Nouran Gohar is seeded first in the women’s event and is aiming to make it four wins in five years. Gohar – the most successful woman in the event’s history – is drawn with World No.4 Olivia Weaver as well as Japan’s Satomi Watanabe and Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam, with the latter two making their debuts at the tournament.
In Group B, World Champion Nour El Sherbini will look to draw level with Gohar on three PSA Squash Tour Finals victories. El Sherbini is joined in Group B by 17-year-old Amina Orfi, who will make her first appearance at this tournament. Belgium’s Tinne Gilis and USA’s Amanda Sobhy are the other players featuring in Group B, with Sobhy getting a call up after World No.3 Hania El Hammamy withdrew due to injury. 
A record amount of $635,000 in total player compensation is up for grabs, split equally across both draws. Players compete in a best-of-three games group stage between June 23-25. The top two from each group qualify for the knockout semi-finals, where a place in the best-of-five games title decider will await the winner of those fixtures.
Group stage action will begin on Monday June 23 at 15:00 (GMT-5). Eight matches will be played per day for the first three days of the event until the group stage has drawn to a close.
Group stage matches will take place at 15:00, 15:30, 16:15, 16:45, 18:30, 19:00, 20:15 and 21:00 between June 23-25. The semi-finals will be held at 17:30 on Thursday June 26.
The finals will begin at 19:00 on Friday June 27.
All matches will be held at Toronto’s Revival Film Studios and matches will be streamed live on SQUASHTV. The semi-finals and finals will also be shown live by PSA’s broadcast partners.
Tickets can be purchased here.
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2024-25 SmartCentres PSA Squash Tour Finals – Group Draw 
