Tickets for the 2024 Optasia Championships are on sale now, with The Wimbledon Club hosting a men’s Gold and women’s Bronze PSA World Tour event from 12th to 17th March
Optasia Squash NEWS
Curtain Fall: Fram and Abdel Gawad enjoy London!
Curtain Fall time with Fram and her Awards….
La Boucle est Bouclée: Back to the Future with Karim Abdel Gawad…
Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy) 3-0 [8] Youssef Soliman (Egy) 11-4, 11-7, 11-3 (34m)
FINAL : Gawad claims his second
Karim Abdel Gawad claimed his second Optasia title with a straight-game victory over Youssef Soliman in the final …
A Tale of Two Directors… Danny & Stacey
All you didn’t know you needed to know about Danny Lee and Stacey Ross, in charge of organising Optasia …
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)
SEMIS : Soliman & Gawad set up all-Egyptian final
It’s an all-Egyptian final in store at The Wimbledon Club, as Youssef Soliman and Karim Abdel Gawad triumphed in contrasting semi-finals
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)
QUARTERS : The upsets keep coming !!
There was no let up in the upset results in the quarter-finals as Mazen Hesham sensationally beaty top seed Ali Farag, and Baptiste Masotti beat in-form Joel Makin
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)