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We are excited to announce the CIB Black Ball Open is confirmed for December! The Black Ball Sporting Club in Cairo, Egypt will be the home of the PSA World Tour for December with back-to back Gold tournaments. The women’s event will take place between December 7-12, with the men’s event beginning the following day and drawing to a close with the final on December 18. Both tournaments promise top level squash, you don't want to miss them!

Egyptian World No.1 Ali Farag has retained his Qatar Classic title after beating World No.5 Paul Coll earlier today in the final of the PSA World Tour Platinum tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Farag, 28, has now lifted his 21st PSA title following an 11-8, 6-11, 11-9, 11-9 victory over the Kiwi in 61 minutes, extending his winning run over Coll to 13 matches. Farag’s retrieval skills and graceful movement around court was breathtaking as he picked up the majority of what Coll threw at him and

New Zealand’s World No.5 Paul Coll and Egypt’s World No.1 Ali Farag will contest the final of the 2020 Qatar Classic after respective wins over World No.12 Fares Dessouky and World Champion Tarek Momen at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex in Doha, Qatar. Coll and Farag will lock horns tomorrow in a repeat of March’s 2020 Windy City Open final, where the Egyptian came from two games down to win the title in a thrilling battle in Chicago. Both of today’s

New Zealand’s Paul Coll and Egypt’s Fares Dessouky will face off for a place in a maiden Qatar Classic final following respective victories over World No.6 Marwan ElShorbagy and World No.41 Youssef Ibrahim earlier today at the Khalifa International & Squash Complex in Doha, Qatar. Quarter-finals day of the PSA World Tour Platinum tournament saw all four matches go all the way to five games, with Coll kicking things off with an 8-11, 11-4, 5-11, 11-9, 11-5 victory to book his spot in the

Wales’ World No.10 Joel Makin has reached the quarter finals of the 2020 Qatar Classic after defeating France’s World No.38 Lucas Serme 11-7, 11-9, 11-7 at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex. The match was strongly contested all the way through with Serme forcing Makin to work hard for every point, but it was the Welshman who prevailed with his accurate shot-making and incredible retrievals seeing him come away with a straight-games win at the PSA Platinum event. Makin will face either

Egypt’s World No.6 Marwan ElShorbagy took out Germany’s Raphael Kandra by an 11-4, 11-5, 11-7 scoreline to reach the quarter finals at the 2020 Qatar Classic taking place in Doha. The two players have met four times previously on the PSA Tour with their last three encounters being tight battles. However, today proved to be a straight-forward win for ElShorbagy, who is arguably the in-form player on the men’s tour right now, as he saw out a comfortable victory in 34 minutes. The

New Zealand’s World No.5 Paul Coll was forced to come from 2-1 down against France’s World No.17 Gregoire Marche to book his place in the Qatar Classic quarter finals in Doha. Coll is no stranger to the glass court in Qatar, having reached the PSA World Championship final on this court 12 months ago. However, the Kiwi was out of sorts in the first game with Marche punishing Coll with his accuracy to open up a one game lead. The second proved vital

Peru’s World No.7 Diego Elias ended home hopes at the 2020 Qatar Classic, PSA World Tour Platinum event after downing the country’s No.1 player - Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi - in the second round earlier today at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex. Elias had never beaten Al Tamimi in three attempts prior to today’s encounter, but came through to win 11-9, 11-4, 11-8. The No.5 seed was also helped by a hamstring strain sustained by Al Tamimi, who was forced off

Spain’s former World No.5 Borja Golan battled past Egypt’s World No.16 Omar Mosaad to reach the third round of the Qatar Classic with an 11-7, 6-11, 11-6, 13-11 victory in 68 minutes. The two experienced players are no strangers to each other having played each other nine times previously on the PSA Tour with Mosaad winning the last three. However, it was World No.26 Golan who took the victory today after holding off a fightback to reach the last 16 of a Platinum

Germany’s World No.33 Raphael Kandra upset the seedings on day two of the Qatar Classic after he took out World No.13 Saurav Ghosal 10-12, 11-9, 11-4, 11-7, with the Indian struggling with an injury towards the end of the match. Kandra was 8-6 down in the first but managed to claw his way back into the game to hold two game balls. A lengthy rally with some sublime retrievals on show from both players saw Ghosal save one of those game balls before

Qatari No.1 Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi got his 2020 Qatar Classic campaign under way with a win over England’s Patrick Rooney as the PSA World Tour Platinum tournament began at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex in Doha. The Qatar Classic returns for the first time since 2018 after taking a year out to host the PSA Men’s World Championship in 2019, and Al Tamimi will appear in the second round of this tournament for the first time after beating Rooney in

World No.42 George Parker twice came back from a game down to get the better of Frenchman Victor Crouin in a gripping five game encounter. The pair had met twice before on the PSA Tour and shared one win apiece, with both matches being won by a 3-0 margin. This time around it was nip-and-tuck as both players enjoyed spells of scintillating squash. The court conditions favoured whoever took the ball in short more and it was initially Crouin who found his drop

Egypt’s Mohamed ElSherbini marked his first appearance since March with a 3-0 victory over Qatari wildcard Syed Azlan Amjad in the first match of the 2020 Qatar Classic to take place on the glass court. ElSherbini, making his Qatar Classic debut, was in control for the majority of the match as he hit consistent lines and punished his opponent at the front of the court. Amjad came into the encounter on a high after winning the QSF 3 Open on this very court

Egypt’s Ali Farag has claimed the World No.1 spot for the first time since January, 2020 after the PSA Men’s World Rankings for November were released today. Farag, the 28-year-old Harvard-graduate, captured the CIB Egyptian Open title in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza a fortnight ago and his run to the final in Cairo saw him end rival Mohamed ElShorbagy’s nine-month reign atop the World Rankings. ElShorbagy drops down to No.2 but will have the opportunity to retake top spot if

The Qatar Classic starts from Sunday at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex, with the PSA Platinum level tournament returning to the calendar after making way for the PSA World Championships in 2019. Ali Farag will be World No.1 come the start of the tournament, and the new man at the summit of the World Rankings will also be the defending champion when play begins on Sunday morning in the Qatari capital. The 2018-19 World Champion will be in the No.2 seed

World Junior Champion Mostafa Asal and fellow Egyptian Zahed Salem have withdrawn from the upcoming Qatar Classic. Both players are currently self-isolating after close family members have tested positive for COVID-19. Neither player has received a positive test at this time. Frenchman Victor Crouin takes up Asal’s spot in the draw and he will play England’s George Parker in round one. Crouin’s place is taken by USA’s Todd Harrity, who will go up against Lucas Serme. Former World No.1 James Willstrop takes Salem’s

The World No.1 spot will be up for grabs during the 2020 Qatar Classic, PSA Platinum tournament when three-time champion Mohamed ElShorbagy looks to wrestle it back from the grasp of fellow Egyptian Ali Farag at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex between November 1-7. Farag, the 2018 champion, will overthrow ElShorbagy as the world’s leading male player on the day the tournament kicks off courtesy of his run to the final at the CIB Egyptian Open last week in front of

Syed Azlan Amjad has broken through on the PSA Challenger Tour to lift his first ever title, after he won the QSF 3 Open on home soil at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex in Doha. Amjad has fond memories of the venue, as he was a wildcard at the 2019 PSA Men’s World Championship, held at the Khalifa Complex. The Qatari No.2 reached the second round of the Worlds last year. In this Challenger Tour event, which was held for Qatari-based

The World No.1 spot will be up for grabs during the 2020 Qatar Classic, PSA Platinum tournament when three-time champion Mohamed ElShorbagy looks to wrestle it back from the grasp of fellow Egyptian Ali Farag at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex between November 1-7. Farag, the 2018 champion, will overthrow ElShorbagy as the world’s leading male player on the day the tournament kicks off courtesy of his run to the final at the CIB Egyptian Open last week in front of

Qatar is getting set to host the world's best men squash players again at the 2020 Qatar Classic, the 19th edition of the annual international squash tournament, which takes place at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex from November 1 to 7. 46 players including the world's top-eight are featuring at the prestigious tournament, one of the signature events on the Professional Squash Association (PSA) Tour, which carries a total prize purse of $175.000 cash prize. Players expected in Doha include defending