1st round: Menna Nasser (EGY) bt [8] Aika Azman (MAS) 8-11, 11-7,
11-5, 12-10 (35m)
[6] Chloe Mesic (FRA) bt Sachika Ingale (IND) w/o
[7] Teh Min Jie (MAS) bt Sivasangari Subramanian (MAS)
11-9, 8-11, 11-1, 11-3
Nadine Nets 2014 Title No 5 In Malaysia
Egyptian teen sensation Nadine Shahin captured her fifth
WSA World Tour title of the year when she beat South African
Cheyna Tucker in the final of the Malaysian Tour Squash
Circuit No6, the WSA Tour 5 event at the Perlis Sports
Complex in Kangar, the state capital of Perlis.
The 17-year-old third seed survived a 58-minute semi-final which
went the full distance - fighting back from 2/1 down to upset
second-seeded Welsh opponent Deon Saffery.
Tucker made her breakthrough in the quarter-finals. The No5 seed
from Johannesburg removed Malaysia's No4 seed Vanessa Raj
before reaching the second Tour final of her career after outlasting
unseeded Egyptian Menna Nasser in a 55-minute semi.
World No72 Tucker extended Shahin to a tie-break game in the opener
of the final, but the Cairo teenager, ranked 13 places higher, took
control thereafter before closing out the match 13-11, 11-6, 11-5 in
29 minutes.
"I'm really happy to win this tournament - this is my fifth title
for this year," said Shahin, who won her fourth at the Colony
Ford Lincoln National Squash Academy Open in Canada just two
weeks ago.
