Let us all congratulate Nour El-Sherbini and Ali Farag for winning CIB Egyptian Squash open for this year! After defeating Nouran Gohar, Sherbini seized the women’s gold on Saturday. Meanwhile, Ali Farag made it to the top after defeating Tarek Momen in the same tournament.
The opening of the event, platinum tournament of the Professional Squash Association (PSA), was on October 10th and was held with the iconic Great Pyramid of Giza as the backdrop.
Following her win, Al-Sherbini will overtake Gohar as the women’s World No.1 on November 1 and Farag will take back the top spot from his fellow Egyptian Mohamed Al-Shorbagy on the men’s side.
“Of course, just playing here in front of the Pyramids is very big for me,” Al-Sherbini told reporters.
“It is an unbelievable feeling for me. I had to tell myself to keep going because Nouran is playing unbelievably, and even though she was injured, she beat many top players on her way to the final, but I am thrilled to win this match,” she added.
“It was pretty emotional, what an occasion to be able to capture here,” Farag told the audience after his win.
“Egypt’s hosting of these tournaments will have a positive impact on the economy of the country and will definitely boost tourism,” Egypt’s Minister of Youth and Sport, Ashraf Sobhy said.
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Egypt’s squash player Ali Farag won the Optasia Championship title at the Wimbledon Club in London despite a warm-up injury ahead of the match on Saturday, using his victory speech to highlight the discrepancies in sports and politics.
“One more thing that I know is going to get me in trouble, but you know we’ve all seen the what’s going on in the world at the moment with Ukraine and nobody is happy about what’s going,” Farag said.
“Nobody should ever accept any killings in the world, any oppression. But we’ve never been allowed to speak about politics in sports, but all of a sudden now it’s allowed. So, that we’re allowed, I hope that people also look at the oppression everywhere in the world,” he added.
“I mean, the Palestinians have been going through that for the past 74 years and, well, I guess because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the of the media of the West, we couldn’t talk about it, but now that we can talk about the Ukraine, we can talk about Palestinians. So please keep that in mind,” Farag continued.
Farag, World’s No. 2, triumphed 4-11, 11-8, 11-8, 13-11 against World No. 6 Diego Elias at Optasia. His speech was not included in the highlights of the match on the Youtube channel of PSA.
Starting out his story from 2008, he was a player in Zamalek, Abogabal in Egypt Assuit. His real name is Hamad Kotb Abu Gabal Ali, he started his role as a goal keeper since he was a junior player in the youth club of Assuit. In 2008 he started out to play for the ENNPI Egyptian club as a goal keeper, up to 2013. Following the young boy’s passion, it was his dream to play for al Zamalek Club, he stayed there for 3 consecutive years and switched to Smouha at 2019. “According to his father’s advice, he told him the world is always ups and downs, when it’s your turn stay humble”. In 2021 he participated in Egypt’s national team as a goal keeper, he had his chance to shine and succeed in front of the world.