Egyptian champion Mostafa Asal, Al-Ahly club player and ranked fourth in the world for squash men, crowned the eight great squash championships hosted by Egypt from June 21 to 26 of the same month, at the end of the 2021/2022 squash season, where the value of the material prizes for the tournament is estimated at about 200 thousand dollars.
In the final, Mustafa Asal defeated his New Zealander Paul Cole, the world number two, 3-0 in a match that lasted 76 minutes. The results of the runs were as follows: 13-11, 11-8, 11-7.
It is noteworthy that the Egyptian champion Nour El-Sherbiny, a Sporting player and ranked second, won the women’s title in the same tournament, and El-Sherbiny won the final match over her competitor, Nouran Gohar, a player from Wadi Degla, who is ranked first in the world for women’s squash, 3-0 in a match that lasted 43 minutes, and the results of the runs were as follows : 11-6, 11-8, 11-5.
The final round witnessed the qualification of 3 Egyptian players: Nouran Gohar, ranked Nouran Gohar, ranked first in the world for women’s squash, Nour El-Sherbiny, a second-ranked Sporting player, and Mostafa Asal, player of Al-Ahly Club, ranked fourth in the world for men’s squash, and New Zealand’s Paul Cole, ranked second in the world for men, qualified.
Mostafa Asal, Al-Ahly player and ranked fourth in the world, holds the title of the last edition of the Eight Greats Championship, and Hania Al-Hamami, player of Wadi Degla, ranked third in the world, holds the women’s title for the same tournament.