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World's top players El Welily and Farag crowned DPD Open squash champions - Egypt Independent

Egypt’s Ali Farag and Raneem El Welily, the world’s current number one male and female squash players, won the 2019 DPD Open Squash championship after claiming respective wins over Mohamed El Shorbagy and Nour El Sherbini in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The PSA World Tour Gold tournament took place at the brand new DPD headquarters, marking the grand opening of their new … Continued

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CIBSquashTeam Ali Farag and Raneem El Welily to top the DPD Open in Eindhoven...

Forty eight of the best male and female players will descend on the Dutch city of Eindhoven between April 9-14 to battle it out for the PSA World Tour Gold titles. 

World No.1 and World Champion Ali Farag is seeded to meet compatriot and World No.2 Mohamed ElShorbagy in the final. The two players have become familiar foes on the PSA World Tour this season, battling it out in three finals already in 2018/19.

Farag will first have to negotiate through a tough field, which sees him drawn on the same side as the likes of Colombia’s 2018 British Open champion Miguel Rodriguez, compatriot Mohamed Abouelghar and Germany’s World No.5 Simon Rösner, who he could face in the last four.

ElShorbagy meanwhile, could face a showdown with compatriot and former World No.1 Karim Abdel Gawad for a place in the final. Also seeded in the bottom half of the draw is New Zealand’s Paul Coll, who recently won the Canary Wharf Squash Classic title and ElShorbagy’s younger brother, Marwan.

Two more Egyptians in the Men’s draw, Mostafa ‘Raging Bull’ Asal who takes on Declan James - who he beat in the BlackBall Open - and Amazing Mazen Hesham who will try to oust Frenchman in form Mathieu Castagnet, semi-finalist in Canary Wharf.

Meanwhile in the women’s draw, World No.1 Raneem El Welily and World Champion Nour El Sherbini could lock horns in the final in their fourth meeting in a final this season.

2019 Black Ball Open winner, El Welily could face compatriot and World No.3 Nour El Tayeb in the semi-finals of the tournament. The last time the two players came up against each other was in the last four of the PSA World Championships in Chicago when El Tayeb put an end to El Welily’s title defence but in Nour’s way stand England Sarah-Jane Perry, while Joelle King could stop Raneem in the quarters...

Nour El Sherbini won’t have an easy ride either as she could face Legend Nicol David or World Junior Champ Rowan El Araby in her first round, with Nouran Gohar to follow, ending in the semis against Camille Serme or Laura Massaro! Two more Egyptians in the Women’s draw with Mariam Metwally facing USA Amanda Sobhy, and Yathreb Adel playing home favourite and wild card Tessa ter Sluis.