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PETALING JAYA: National No. 1 Ng Eain Yow did not get the year-end bang he was looking for when he crashed out in the first round of the Black Ball Open squash championships in Egypt.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 14 — National number one squash player, Ng Eain Yow put up a superb performance against world number 17th player, Omar Mosaad before bowing out in the first round match of the Black Ball Squash Open Championship in Cairo, Egypt yesterday. The world number 27th who is currently...

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New Zealand’s Paul Coll and Egypt’s Mostafa Asal have set up a much anticipated second round clash at the men’s CIB Black Ball Squash Open

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A traditional tight contest between Joelle King and England’s Sarah-Jane Perry didn’t end the way the Kiwi world No.8 would have wanted.

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British squash players James Willstrop and Declan James discuss the Cairo Black Ball Open and squash being excluded from the Summer Olympics - again.

Joelle King has ended the run of second ranked Nouran Gohar with a straight game win at the Black Ball Squash Open in Cairo.

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New Zealand's Joelle King is into the last eight at the PSA World Tour Squash Open in Cairo after beating Canada's Hollie Naughton.

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Joelle King is into the last eight at the PSA World Tour CIB Black Ball Squash Open after comfortably defeating Canada’s Hollie Naughton

Camille Serme eased past Melissa Alves to reach the second round of the PSA Black Ball Squash Open in Cairo.

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Islamabad Cairo, Egypt would host back-to-back men’s and women’s PSA World Tour Gold events between December 7 to 18 when the CIB PSA Black Ball Open takes place at the Black Ball Sporting Club. The women’s event would take place between December 7-12, with a men’s event beginning the following day and drawing to a […]

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Black Ball Squash Open 2020

This Blog contains match reports from the first two editions (2018 Men’s Platinum and 2019 Women’s Gold), but for the 2020 Women’s Platinum edition match reports will appear directly on the main website.

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Division 1 Leagues - April 2019 in BlackBall

Finals of the Men & Women’s League (First Division) ended on Saturday 6th April 2019. Black Ball Sporting Club took first place, winning all their games (15 points), allowing them to raise to the Professional League next season. The rest of the results was as follow:

2nd: الصفحة الرسمية لنادي الشمس Al-Shams club 3rd: Maadi Club 4th: Tanta Club 5th: Shooting Club 6th: al Zohour sporting club

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By Maydaa Abo El-Nadar CAIRO, MAR.17 (SEE) - Egyptian squash champion Raneem El-Welily, World number 1, claimed the 2019 CIB Black Ball Squash Open’s title, after a final that lasted for 53 minutes, against her fellow citizen Nour

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Raneem wins a strange match...

[1] Raneem El Welily (Egy) 3-2 [2] Nour El Sherbini (Egy) 9-11, 11-2, 6-11, 11-1, 11-5 (53m)

This was a bit of a strange match to be honest. Like if Nour El Sherbini was focused and intense one game out of two…

It was initially a very start from the World number 1 Raneem El Welily – and not Walily, as the MC kept calling her – with five winners for only one for Nour up to 7/4. Then the game turned completely, and Raneem seemed a bit overwhelmed by Nour’s change of pace. Still close, 8/8, 9/9, but a stroke and a drive kill, and it’s 11/9 in 12m for Nour (7 winners for 6 Raneem, same errors for both 3, 1 stroke for Nour). Nour’s length in particular, her depth game, was absolutely stunning.

Then a certain pattern started: Nour seemed to switch off for a game (6m 11/2 for Raneem), then back on track the next one, 10m, 8/2 Nour, 9/5, 11/6, only to see her switch off again, no intensity in her shots, flat as a pan cake after a huge rally at 3/0 then 5/0, 11/1 for Raneem, 6m.

All credit to her support camp, Vito Shohayeb and dad Atef, they managed to make her smile and laugh as she came back on court for the decider, relaxing her and giving her the envy of playing again.

Raneem, on her guard despite those fluctuations in Nour’s game, was perfectly aware that Nour would come back with a vengeance in the 5th. And she “just” straightened her game, not giving an angle or a volley to the Master of Attacking Squash that is Nour, pushed her deeper and deeper at the back. Nour had found her power, her squash, and her will to play again. Her racquet was hitting that ball very hard again, but Raneem was mentally in control now, and believed that her squash, today, was good enough to beat her friend.

And if Nour was just a point ahead to start with, 2/1, 3/2, it’s Raneem that took the commands 7/3, and despite a roaring YAAAAALLLLLLAAAAA as at that point, it was the World number 1 that closed the game and match in 14m, the longest game of the match, 11/5 (8 winners from Raneem for 2 errors, 3 winners and 3 errors for Nour).

To be noted there were very few calls the whole match, and that was extremely pleasant… So, the Frog, signing off from this wonderful venue/tournament/ once again.. And hopefully see you soon here again at the end of June for their Ardic Junior event….

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They said: Raneem El Welily and Nour El Sherbini

[1] Raneem El Welily (Egy) 3-2 [2] Nour El Sherbini (Egy) 9-11, 11-2, 6-11, 11-1, 11-5 (53m)

Nour It’s been a tough week, and it was a bonus to be playing in Egypt, in front of my friends, my family and my team, and I’m glad I made it to the final here after wining the worlds a few days ago. We played a lot of hard battles with Raneem, and she was better today. Hopefully, we’ll have more battles to come. The quarters were hard, tonight was hard, but it’s such a special tournament for me, and I hope we can make this bigger in this amazing venue. Thanks to all involved in making this event possible, and I know it’s not easy, but we deserve a tournament just for us, and I hope we can keep going, and make our sport even better…

Raneem

I’m very happy to be standing here. It feels good to have won this match, playing Nour is never easy and today was I think a little bit different than any other time we have played. I think we both showed very good patterns throughout the match and we had some very good patches where we both played very good. I think this hasn’t happened in a while, so I am very happy to have been part of this good match.

She’s World Champ, she is only 23-years-old in case you forgot that and being World Champion when you are that age. We are very good friends off court and we fight until the end and respect each other. I think this is why we fought so hard tonight. In the 4th, I was tense, so I decided to go back to basics, straight but pressure straight, not passive straight). Every time we get on court, it’s a different situation. I have got to believe that it’s going to be a different match, a different result, and that the last match doesn’t mean anything.

The Tour is very compact and intense, so I lost to her last week, I won today, and I am playing again next week. So it’s not because I beat her today that I don’t have to keep working hard.

All eyes on Tarek now, I’ll be watching the match. I hope he plays well, he has been playing great all season and I really hope he wins tonight. He played really well last night and I hope he can push one more match and we will see how it goes. Being married to another squash player makes things different. What is different this time is that we are not in the same country, we do not share the same room and we do not have double the pressure. And worrying about his match means I’m less worried about mine… I want to thank Mr Ahmed Al Elabd, BlackBall CEO, Mohamed Raef and Ashraf Hanafi, from BlackBall, and all involved, to take care of all the tiny details, we players like to feel we are taken care of, and that’s certainly what we felt this week. Aslo, I want to thank my sponsors, Wadi Degla, CIB and Harrow, I wanted to thank my family who has been there all week, my coaches who nearly played the match with me on court, Haitham Effat, my fitness coach Ahmed Faragallah who couldn’t be there tonight, my physio Dr. Mohamed Amin at Dura Clinincs and my brother Tameem for managing everything behind the scenes for me and for offering all sorts of help whenever, whatever needed.

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Sponsor ShoutOut: Dusit - Top of the Top of the Creme de la Creme

As my title clearly says, I absolutely adore the Dusit.

I came here the first time in November 2013, when NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY wanted to come to this wonderful country that is Egypt.

It was only a few days after Morsi was accompagnied out of the Presidency by 30 millions Egyptians in the street demanding his departure and the atmosphere outside Egypt was that it was not safe for a Christian Foreigner to come to Cairo.

“I’m blond, I’m a Christian, I’m a woman, and I’m safe in Cairo” became my moto and I never regretted my stay in that fantastic hotel that is the Dusit.

We came back here for the Men’s World in Wadi Degla and I had the same “coup de coeur” again. To be honest, I happen to see the suite that was given to Ramy, I still have dreams about the terrasse!

Seriously, it’s a very highly secure hotel, with all the adequat security measure foreigners have come to expect - even I feel they are unecessary really as a local - the service is second to none, the rooms whether simple or suite are exquisite, and the food is pretty good.

Nex time you come in town, don’t hesitate and stay there, I promise you you won’t regret it...

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