The CIB Palm Hills PSA World Championships 25/26 got underway today in Giza, Egypt with 32 top half matches across five courts at the Palm Hills Club.
Qualifiers Fouts and Azana advance
Although none of the top seeds were seriously troubled – although World #1 Hania El Hammamy dropped the first game – there were a handful of seeding upsets on the opening day, with a pair of qualifiers advancing – USA’s Caroline Fouts beat 23rd seed Georgia Adderley in five while Argentina’s Jeremias Azana overcame 32nd seed Bernat Jaume in four games.
Further upsets saw Cairo-based Lauren Baltayan beat 29th seed Lucy Turmel and Nour Heikal beat 21st seed Malak Khagafy, while in the men’s matches Veer Chotrani overcame fellow Indian 25th seed Abhay Singh, while 30th seed Nour Zaman narrowly avoided an upset loos to Marwan Asal.
Fouts and Chotrani are rewarded with round two matches against the top seeds, but they do have a rest day to prepare, with tomorrow seeing another 32 round one matches, from the bottom halves.
Check out the reports, reaction and photos below today’s results …
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12.00 C2 [6] Satomi Watanabe (Jpn) 3-0 Haya Ali (Egy) 11-5, 11-7, 11-8 (21m)
12.00 C3 [5] Siva Subramaniam (Mas) 3-0 Marie Stephan (Fra) 11-9, 11-6, 11-4 (21m)
12.00 C4 [13] Nada Abbas (Egy) 3-2 [Q] Kaitlyn Watts (Nzl) 11-8, 4-11, 10-12, 11-3, 11-5 (56m)
12.45 C1 [29] Juan Vargas (Col) 3-2 Salman Khalil (Egy) 12-10, 3-11, 11-3, 5-11, 11-5 (61m)
12.45 C2 [24] Yahya Elnawasany (Egy) 3-0 Toufik Mekhalfi (Fra) 11-6, 11-7, 11-4 (31m)
12.45 C3 [5] Joel Makin (Wal) 3-0 [Q] Muhd Asim Khan (Pak) 11-1, 11-3, 11-2 (23m)
12.45 C4 [30] Noor Zaman (Pak) 3-2 [Q] Adam Hawal (Egy) “11-9, 5-11, 11-7, 9-11, 11-8 (55m)
13.30 C1 [30] Chan Sin Yuk (Hkg) 3-0 Nadine Shahin (Egy) 11-7, 11-9, 11-7 (20m)
13.30 C2 [Q] Caroline Fouts (Usa) 3-2 [23] Georgia Adderley (Sco) 9-11, 11-5, 11-1, 8-11, 11-6 (49m)
13.30 C3 [19] Aira Azman (Mas) 3-2 Lee Ka Yi (Hkg) 11-8, 10-12, 11-13, 11-6, 11-9 (45m)
13.30 C4 [28] Hana Ramadan (Egy) 3-2 Ainaa Amani (Mas) 9-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-9, 11-9 (50m)
14.15 C1 [12] Aly Abou Eleinen (Egy) 3-1 Mohamed ElSherbini (Egy) 9-11, 11-5, 11-6, 11-2 (55m)
14.15 C2 [16] Gregoire Marche (Fra) 3-1 Simon Herbert (Eng) 3-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-8 (48m)
14.15 C3 [23] Miguel Rodriguez (Col) 3-0 Matias Knudsen (Col) 11-5, 11-6, 11-4 (44m)
14.15 C4 [8] Mohamed Zakaria (Egy) 3-0 Marwan Asal (gy) 11-6, 11-6, 11-3 (43m)
16.00 C1 [15] Jasmine Hutton (Eng) 3-1 Torrie Malik (Eng) 13-15, 11-7, 11-7, 11-8 (48m)
16.00 C2 Nour Heikal (Egy) 3-0 [21] Malak Khagary (Egy) 11-5, 12-10, 11-9 (28m)
16.00 C3 [9] Tinne Gilis (Bel) 3-1 Katie Malliff (Eng) 11-3, 11-4, 9-11, 11-5 (40m)
16.00 C4 [3] Amina Orfi (Egy) 3-0 Saran Nghiem (Eng) 11-2, 11-5, 11-7 (28m)
16.45 C1 Veer Chotrani (Ind) 3-2 [25] Abhay Singh (Ind) 14-12, 8-11, 5-11, 11-7, 11-2 (60m)
16.45 C2 [13] Leonel Cardenas (Mex) 3-0 Viktor Byrtus (Cze) 11-4, 17-15, 11-6 (37m)
16.45 C3 [Q] Jeremias Azana (Arg) 3-1 [32] Bernat Jaume (Esp) 12-10, 11-4, 7-11, 11-4 (50m)
16.45 C4 [15] Fares Dessouky (Egy) 3-0 Auguste Dussourd (Fra) 11-9, 12-10, 11-8 (54m)
17.30 C1 [18] Farida Mohamed (Egy) 3-1 Amina El Rihany (Egy) 10-12, 11-6, 11-6, 11-2 (37m)
17.30 C2 [22] Curtis Malik (Eng) 3-0 Henry Leung (Hkg) 11-9, 11-5, 11-5 (38m)
17.30 C3 [26] Aifa Azman (Mas) 3-2 Nicole Bunyan (Can) 7-11, 11-5, 10-12, 12-10, 11-3 (51m)
17.30 C4 [17] Dimitri Steinmann (Sui) 3-2 Ivan Perez (Esp) ” 9-11, 11-4, 15-13, 7-11, 11-6 (102m)
19.30 GC [1] Hania El Hammamy (Egy) 3-1 Ruqayya Salem (Egy) 10-12, 11-5, 11-3, 11-8 (49m)
20.15 GC [1] Mostafa Asal (Egy) 3-0 Raphael Kandra (Ger) 11-4, 11-3, 11-6 (26m)
21.00 GC Lauren Baltayan (Fra) 3-1 [29] Lucy Turmel (Eng) ” 12-10, 11-6, 11-13, 11-7 (55m)
21.45 GC [3] Diego Elias (Per) 3-0 Nick Wall (Eng) 11-2, 11-1, 11-6 (20m)
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