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Shabana continues winning ways in Motor City

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Last updated: 2014/01/26 at 5:53 PM
By Daily News Egypt 3 Min Read
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Egypt squash maestro Amr Shabana (AFP File Photo)
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By Howard Harding

Just 24 hours after winning his first major PSA World Tour ranking title for more than two years at the JP Morgan Tournament of Champions in New York, Egypt squash maestro Amr Shabana maintained his winning ways some 1,000 km away in Detroit, Michigan, where he defeated compatriot Omar Abdel Meguid in the opening round of the Motor City Open.

The PSA International 70 event at Birmingham Athletic Club in Bloomfield Hills, Detroit – one of the longest-established events on the PSA Tour, first staged in 1999 – has attracted a star-studded field including 50% of the players in the world top 20, and four former champions.

Title-holder Shabana, the 34-year-old fourth seed, needed 61 minutes to see off 25-year-old qualifier Meguid 11-5, 18-16, 11-2.

“Omar has incredible hands, a very wide reach and any loose shots he’s going to put away,” said former World No.1 Shabana later. “That’s why the second game was crucial. If he would’ve won that second game, it could’ve turned the match around so that’s I really pushed it.”

Another Egyptian stands in Shabana’s way of a place in the semi-finals after fifth seed Omar Mosaad survived a 90-minute battle with Ong Beng Hee to beat the 2012 champion from Malaysia 9-11, 11-7, 11-6, 7-11, 11-9.

Finland’s Olli Tuominen pulled off the day’s only upset when he beat Tarek Momen, the No6 seed from Cairo, 13-11, 7-11, 11-3, 8-11, 11-8 in 82 minutes – thus putting paid to an all-Egyptian top half of the draw.

“Tarek is a very good player and I have never beaten him before,” said Tuominen. “He’s so precise and hits ball a lot to the front, but I was able to get most of them back. I just managed to keep my game accurate enough, not give him many opportunities so that he made some mistakes and punish him a little bit when he came to the front and move him around.

“It’s one of the best matches I’ve played in a while,” added the 2004 runner-up.

Tuominen, the 34-year-old World No.28, now faces favourite Mohamed Elshorbagy, the World No.4 and 2011 champion from Alexandria who despatched French qualifier Gregoire Marche 11-2, 11-6, 11-5.

Second seed Karim Darwish leads Egyptian interest in the other half of the draw. The 2010 champion, ranked 6 in the world, beat Egyptian qualifier Marwan Elshorbagy 12-10, 11-9, 11-3.

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