All you didn’t know you needed to know about Danny Lee and Stacey Ross, in charge of organising Optasia …
Author: Framboise Gommendy
SF: Karim stops Baptiste in 3….
Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy) 3-0 Baptiste Masotti (Fra) 11-8, 11-7, 11-8 (42m)
SF: Youssef eventually….
[8] Youssef Soliman (Egy) 3-2 [5] Mazen Hesham (Egy) 6-11, 11-8, 7-11, 11-6, 11-4 (73m)
Four-Year London Drought, sorted
Fram “comes home” to cover an English event for the first time in four years … and it’s a bit of an adventure !!!
QF: Karim today but Yow is going to be sooo good…
Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy) 3-1 Eain Yow Ng (Mas) 16-14, 7-11, 12-10, 11-8 (65m)
QF: BREAKING – Masotti can play and Makin ain’t a machine…
Baptiste Masotti (Fra) 3-0 [7] Jo)el Makin (Wal) 12-10, 11-7, 11-8 (52m)
QF: “One step too far”, Charlie
[8] Youssef Soliman (Egy) 3-0 [WC] Charlie Lee (Eng) 11-4, 11-9, 11-3 (43m)
QF: “I’m happy with the process”, Ali
[5] Mazen Hesham (Egy) 3-2 [1] Ali Farag (Egy) 11-5, 11-7, 9-11, 1-11, 12-10 (66m)
R2: “Bad day at the office but he played better” Ibrahim
[5] Mazen Hesham (Egy) 3-0 Youssef Ibrahim (Egy) 11-3, 11-8, 11-7 (40m)
R2: Forceps victory for Title Holder Ali
[1] Ali Farag (Egy) 3-2 Gregoire Marche (Fra) 4-11, 11-8, 6-11, 11-4, 11-4 (55m)
R2: Mohamed bows to local hero
[WC] Charlie Lee (Eng) 3-1 [3] Mohamed ElShorbagy (Eng) 11-9, 8-11, 11-6, 11-9 (46m)
R2: Soliman recovers to beat Mueller
[8] Youssef Soliman (Egy) 3-1 Nicolas Mueller (Sgy) 6-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-3 (45m)
R2: Marwan in, out, in, out….
Baptiste Masotti (Fra) 3-2 [4] Marwan ElShorbagy (Egy) 6-11, 11-6, 11-2, 9-11, 11-5 (46m)
R2: Joel had to push hard today…
[7] Joel Makin (Wal) 3-0 Saurav Ghosal (Ind) 11-6, 11-8, 11-4 (43m)
R2: Eain Yow’s second upset in a row !
Eain Yow Ng (Mas) 3-1 [6] Victor Crouin (FRra 6-11, 11-4, 12-10, 11-6 (56m)
R1: Rafi wobbles from leading positions against WC Charlie
[wc] Charlie Lee (Eng) 3-0 Raphael Kandra (Ger) 11-9, 11-8, 11-7 (43m)