RESULTS: Women's Colony Ford Lincoln National Squash
Academy Open,
Toronto, Canada
Shahin
First To Four In 2014
Egyptian teenager Nadine Shahin became the first player to win
four WSA World Tour titles this year when she overcame local star
Alyssa Mehta in the final of the Women's Colony Ford Lincoln
National Squash Academy Open, the WSA Tour 5 event at the
National Squash Academy in Toronto, Canada.
Shahin,
the 17-year-old top seed from Cairo, reached the final - the fifth of
her brief career to date - after overcoming compatriot Nouran El
Torky 11-7, 6-11, 11-9, 11-6.
Mehta
pulled off the best sequence of wins of her career - and upset the
Canadian squash hierarchy in the process - to reach her maiden Tour
final as the event's eighth seed!
The
18-year-old, ranked outside the world top 150, followed a mighty
quarter-final upset over second seed Hollie Naughton, the
Canadian number two, by beating fourth seed Nikki Todd, the
country's third highest-ranked player, 11-7, 9-11, 11-3, 11-5 in the
semi-finals.
Mehta
(pictured above in action in the final) pushed Shahin all the way
in the final, but the talented top seed ultimately prevailed 9-11, 11-8,
11-4, 10-12, 11-2 in 52 minutes to win her fourth Tour trophy since
March.
