CIB Egyptian Open 2025 – Qualifying Day One
The first PSA Diamond level tournament of the new season got under way today with 32 qualifying first round matches at the O West Complex in Cairo.
Players will need to record three wins to book one of four qualifier spots in the Men’s and Women’s main draws, which get under way on 12th Sep.
The men’s opening session went with seeding with top seed Patrick Rooney and third seed Omar Mosaad among the eight winners.
The women’s opening session saw a trio of seeding upsets from home players as wildcard Farida Walid beat England’s Kiera Marshall, Malak Fathy beat seventh-seeded Finn Emilia Soini 14-12 in the decider, Jana Swaify ousted Germany’s Saskia Beinhard from a game down. Top two seeds Nardine Garas and Alicia Mead both won though.
It was the reverse scenario In the evening session as all the women’s seeds progressed – although Switzerland’s Cindy Merlo needed six match balls to finish off a testy match against Asia Harris and third seed Haya Ali had to work hard to deny Barbados’ Margot Prow.
In the men’s matches Matthew Lai upset Hong Kong compatriot Henry Leung, Canada’s Salah Eltorgman got the better of Ibrahim Elkabbani, Spain’s Ivan Perez ousted Portugal’s Rui Soares and Dutchman Rowan Damming upset Wales’ Emyr Evans. In the final match of the day sixteenth seeded Englishman Sam Osborne-Wylde relinquished a two game lead over Salman Khalil before finally prevailing 11-8 in the fifth.
Women’s Results :
[2] Alicia Mead (Eng) 3-0 Lowri Roberts (Wal) 11-5, 11-5, 11-3 (16m)
[wc] Farida Walid (Egy) 3-0 [13] Kiera Marshall (Eng) 11-6, 11-9, 11-7 (31m)
[9] Lauren Baltayan (Fra) 3-0 Lucia Bautista (Col) 11-7, 11-4, 11-5 (29m)
Malak Fathy (Egy) 3-2 [7] Emilai Soini (Fin) 11-6, 9-11, 12-10, 5-11, 14-12 (51m)
Jana Swaify (Egy) 3-1 [10] Saskia Beinhard (Ger) 9-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-4 (37m)
[11] Hana Ismail (Egy) 3-0 Salma El Aify (Egy) 11-7, 11-4, 11-7 (21m)
[1] Nardine Garas (Egy) 3-1 Nadien Elhammamy (Egy) 12-10, 11-7, 9-11, 11-8 (44m) [4] Marta Dominguez (Esp) 3-0 Wai Yhann Au Yeong (Sgp) 11-7, 11-6, 11-7 (18m)
[12] Cheng Nga Ching (Hkg) 3-0 Nadia Pfister (Sui) 12-10, 11-8, 11-8 (25m)
[15] Nour Megahed (Egy) 3-0 Menna Walid (Egy) 11-9, 11-3, 11-7 (24m)
[8] Alina Bushma (Ukr) 3-0 Sofia Mateos (Esp) 11-5, 11-4, 11-3 (23m) [5] Cindy Merlo (Sui) 3-2 Asia Harris (Eng) 8-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-13, 12-10 (47m)
[16] Toby Tse (Hkg) 3-0 Tessa ter Sluis (Ned) 12-10, 11-9, 11-4 (22m)
[14] Barb Sameh (Egy) 3-0 Alison Thomson (Sco) 11-9, 11-6, 11-3 (28m)
[3] Haya Ali (Egy) 3-0 Margot Prow (Bar) 13-11, 11-6, 10-12, 11-4 (39m)
Men’s Results :
[1] Patrick Rooney (Eng) 3-0 Aly Hussein (Egy) 11-4, 11-4, 11-6 (30m)
[14] Dewald van Niekerk (Rsa) 3-1 Ameeshenraj Chandaran (Mas) 12-10, 12-10, 6-11, 11-4 (58m)
[15] Yassin Elshafei (Egy) 3-0 Yannik Omlor (Ger) 11-7, 11-7, 12-10 (30m)
[8] Leandro Romiglio (Arg) 3-1 David Bernet (Sui) 11-5, 9-11, 15-13, 11-9 (65m)
[10] Matias Knudsen (Col) 3-0 [wc] Omar Said (Egy) 13-11, 11-7, 11-4 (43m)
[9] Simon Herbert (Eng) 3-0 [wc] Mohamed Nasser (Egy) 11-3, 14-12, 11-7 (39m)
[3] Omar Mosaad (Egy) 3-0 Ismail Amr (Egy) 11-4, 11-6, 11-2 (20m)
Matthew Lai (Hkg) 3-1 [4] Henry Leung (Hkg) 11-8, 14-12, 2-11, 11-9 (51m)
Salah Eltorgman (Can) 3-1 [13] Ibrahim Elkabbani (Egy) 9-11, 11-9, 12-10, 11-9 (61m)
Rowan Damming (Ned) 3-1 [12] Emyr Evans (Wal) 12-10, 7-11, 11-6, 11-7 (59m)
[7] Ryunosukue Tsukue (Jpn) 3-0 Ahmed Rashed (Egy) 11-8, 11-9, 11-4 (33m)
[16] Sam Osborne-Wylde (Eng) 3-2Salman Khalil (Egy) 11-9, 14-12, 9-11, 9-11, 11-8 (70m)
Ivan Perez (Esp) 3-1 [11] Rui Soares (Por) 8-11, 11-7, 14-12, 11-5 (65m)
[2] Balazs Farkas (Hun) 3-0 Ziad Ibrahim (Egy) 11-9, 11-9, 11-9 (29m)
