Fourth seed Mazen Hesham, plus Fares Dessouky, Eain Yow Ng and Sebastien Bonmalais have withdrawn from the upcoming Optasia Championships 2025.
Youssef Ibrahim and Miguel Rodriguez have moved to top eight seeds whilst Mohamed Elshorbagy has moved to fourth seed.
Juan Vargas, Jonah Bryant, Nick Wall and Yannick Wilhelmi have all entered the draw from the reserve list. Vargas will take on Nicolas Mueller, Bryant faces France’s Auguste Dussourd, Wall will play Gregoire Marche and Wilhelmi will play fellow Swiss Dimitri Steinmann.
This follows the withdrawal last week of the original top two women’s seeds, Nouran Gohar and Nour ElSherbini.
Updated Men’s Draw:
[1] Mostafa Asal (EGY) bye
[9/16] Nicolas Mueller (SUI) v Juan Vargas (COL)
[9/16] Auguste Dussourd (FRA) v Jonah Bryant (ENG)
[5] Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY) bye
[7] Youssef Ibrahim (EGY) bye
[9/16] Raphael Kandra (GER) v [WC] Charlie Lee (ENG)
[9/16] Mohamed Abouelghar (EGY) v Curtis Malik (ENG)
[3] Joel Makin (WAL) bye
[4] Mohamed Elshorbagy (ENG) bye
[9/16] Declan James (ENG) v Balazs Farkas (HUN)
[9/16] Gregoire Marche (FRA) v Nick Wall (ENG)
[8] Miguel Rodriguez (COL) bye
[6] Marwan Elshorbagy (ENG) bye
[9/16] Iker Pajares (ESP) v [WC] Samuel Osborne – Wylde (ENG)
[9/16] Dimitri Steinmann (SUI) v Yannick Wilhelmi (SUI)
[2] Paul Coll (NZL) bye
Round one gets underway tomorrow at 12:00 – live on SQUASHTV
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