RESULTS: PSA Challenger 5 Assore Central Gauteng Open,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Abouelghar Grabs Gauteng Glory
Mohamed Abouelghar
prevailed in the Assore Central Gauteng Open in South Africa when
he beat Fares Mohamed Dessouki in the all-Egyptian final of the
PSA World Tour Challenger 5 squash event in its second year at
the Parkview Squash Club in Johannesburg.
Team-mates in Egypt's title-winning 2012 World Junior Championship
squad in Qatar, the pair reached the final after similar score-lines -
but whilst Abouelghar was expected in the final, his compatriot was not.
Surprisingly perhaps, unseeded Dessouki reached the last four without
coming up against a seeded opponent - but then faced local hero
Clinton Leeuw, the No2 seed from Cape Town, in the semi-finals.
The
18-year-old from Cairo recovered from a crushing first game defeat to
beat Leeuw 2-11, 13-11, 11-3, 11-5 to reach the first Tour final of his
career.
Meanwhile favourite Abouelghar claimed his place in the third PSA Tour
final of his career when he beat England's unseeded Thomas Ford
11-7, 9-11, 11-4, 11-8.
And it
was the higher-ranked top seed who triumphed in the final, beating
Dessouki 11-6, 11-4, 12-10 to claim the third PSA World Tour title of
his career.
