Mexico’s Leonel Cardenas has been withdrawn from tonight’s PSA World Championships presented by the Walter Family third round match against top seed Ali Farag due to concussion.
Cardenas, the World No.16, sustained a head injury during his second round match against England’s Curtis Malik yesterday but was allowed to continue the match after passing the Sport Concussion Assessment Test.
However, following further assessment this morning, Cardenas has been withdrawn from the tournament, meaning a walkover will be awarded to Farag.
Farag now advances to the quarter-finals where he will play either World No.6 Tarek Momen or England’s Jonah Bryant.
Tonight’s revised schedule is as follows:
(All times are local GMT-5)
12:00 [5] Amina Orfi (EGY) v [14] Nada Abbas (EGY)
12:45 [10] Nele Gilis-Coll (BEL) v [3] Hania El Hammamy (EGY)
14:00 [8] Marwan ElShorbagy (ENG) v [9] Youssef Soliman (EGY)
14:45 [12] Youssef Ibrahim (EGY) v [3] Diego Elias (PER)
17:30 [1] Nouran Gohar (EGY) v [13] Fayrouz Aboelkheir (EGY)
18:30 [11] Satomi Watanabe (JPN) v [6] Tinne Gilis (BEL)
19:30 Jonah Bryant (ENG) v [5] Tarek Momen (EGY)
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