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Young stars Fayrouz Aboelkheir and Jonah Bryant booked their first appearances in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza after storming through to the CIB Egyptian Open quarter-finals

In the afternoon matches Fayrouz Aboelkheir and Victor Crouin upset fifth seeds Satomi Watanabe and Marwan ElShorbagy, while the drama at the Pryamids saw defending champion Nour El Sherbini survive a tense five game battle with Amanda Sobhy

Belgium’s Nele Gilis credited a newfound ‘hunger in my belly’ as she knocked out England’s eighth seed Gina Kennedy in a brutal 89-minute clash

Eight Round Three matches from the top half of the draws – there was just one seeding upset today as Nele Gilis held off a fightback to beat eighth seed Gina Kennedy in five, but Karim Abdel Gawad, Hania El Hammamy and Joel Makin all had their work cut out to advance.

Local wildcard Adam Hawal recorded one of squash’s greatest ever upsets as the World No.252 stunned World No.3 Paul Coll to reach the third round …

The first PSA Diamond Level event of the season continues today with Round Two as the top 16 seeds join the men’s and women’s draws – quartet of men’s upsets at O West …

The first PSA Diamond Level event of the season moved to the main draw stage today at the O West Complex with 32 Round One matches – three Qualifiers and one Wildcard joined those going through to meet the seeds in Round Two

On the evening of the rest day after qualifying, players, organisers and dignitaries assembled for the Tournament Opening ceremong and the PSA Hall of Fame inductions.

The first PSA Diamond Level event of the season continued today with qualifying finals at the OWest Complex – eight players book their main draw spots, some comfortably, some in nail-biters !

Top four women’s seeds win through to qualifying finals at the men’s seeds are scattered at OWest

The first PSA Diamond Level event of the season kicks off today with the first round of qualifying at the OWest Complex

Semi-Finals night at the OWest Sports Club saw all four matches go to seeding as top seeds Nour El Sherbini and Ali Farag were joined in the finals by Nouran Gohar and Mostafa Asal setting up two all-Egyptian finals in the first-ever PSA Diamond level event

Marwan ElShorbagy downed second seed Paul Coll in an interrupted quarter-final match as Nouran Gohar, Nada Abbas and Mostafa Asal advance to the semi-finals

The first evening of quarter-final action on the Glass Court at the OWest Complex saw all four matches go to seeding as top seeds Ali Farag and Nour El Sherbini were joined by Diego Elias and Hania El Hammamy in the semi-finals

The 2024 CIB Egyptian Open continued with eight Round Three matches from the bottom half of the draws – Abbas comeback the highlight on a day when the quarter-finalists were settled