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Brilliant Ashour wins Australian Open
19-Aug-2012
Defending champion Ramy Ashour was at his brilliant best as he downed fellow Egyptian Omar Mosaad in straight games to win his second HI-TEC Australian Open crown in Canberra on Sunday.
David wins second Australian Open crown
19-Aug-2012
Defending champion Nicol David of Malaysia won her second consecutive HI-TEC Australian open when she beat a gallant Laura Massaro in an enthralling women’s final in Canberra’s Royal Theatre on Sunday.
Ashour downs Pilley to make final against Mosaad
18-Aug-2012
Top seeded Egyptian Ramy Ashour booked his place in the final of the HI-TEC Australian Open after overcoming Australian Cameron Pilley in a brilliant men’s semi-final in Canberra on Saturday.
David and Massaro to meet in final
18-Aug-2012
Defending champion Nicol David was back to her imposing best as she defeated 2010 winner Madeline Perry in the semi-finals of the HI-TEC Australian Open in Canberra on Saturday.
Pilley to face Ashour in semi-finals
17-Aug-2012
Cameron Pilley survived his second five-game marathon in succession to defeat Egyptian Omar Abdel Aziz and reach the semi-finals of the HI-TEC Australian Open in Canberra on Friday.
Perry beats Brown to end Australian hopes
17-Aug-2012
Northern Ireland’s Madeline Perry crushed Australian hopes in the women’s quarter-finals at the HI-TEC Australian Open when she defeated Kasey Brown with a ruthless display of attacking squash in Canberra on Friday.
Pilley beats Alexander as Ashour sails on
16-Aug-2012
Big-hitting Cameron Pilley booked a place in the HI-TEC Australian Open quarter-finals when he beat fellow Australian Zac Alexander in a thrilling second round match in Canberra on Thursday.
Urquhart downs Grinham as seeds tumble
16-Aug-2012
Australia’s Donna Urquhart scored one of the best wins of her career to beat fellow countrywoman Rachael Grinham as four of the top eight women’s seeds lost their second round matches at the HI-TEC Australian Open in Canberra on Thursday.

Palmer gets slight boost from Shabana withdrawal

29-Jul-2011 -

Australian squash number one David Palmer will be breathing slightly easier following the overnight withdrawal from the Viridian Australian Open of world number five Amr Shabana.

Palmer had been drawn to play Shabana in the first round in Canberra next month in a battle of two former world number ones.

However, following the Egyptian’s withdrawal the draw was remade and Palmer will now face new eighth seed, Malaysia’s Azlan Iskandar.

Iskandar is ranked 10th in the world while Palmer is 11th,  but the 35-year-old Australian would no doubt rather be facing Iskandar in the tournament opener than four-time world champion Shabana.

The Egyptian’s withdrawal also means good news for New South Wales’s Ryan Cuskelly, who, as the highest ranked player in qualifying, now comes into the main draw.

Cuskelly will take on Englishman Tom Richards in the first round.

The Australian Open will be played on the all-glass court at Canberra’s Royal Theatre from August 8-14.

Revised first round men’s draw – prefix denotes seeding:

1-Nick Matthew (ENG) v Stephen Coppinger (RSA)
Ong Beng Hee (MAS) v Qualifier
Nicolas Mueller (SUI) v Julian Illingworth (USA)
7-Thierry Lincou (FRA) v Laurens Jan Anjema (NED)
8-Azlan Iskandar (MAS) v David Palmer (AUS)
Tom Richards (ENG) v Ryan Cuskelly (AUS)
Qualifier v Qualifier
3-Karim Darwish (EGY) v Qualifier
4-James Willstrop (ENG) v Chris Ryder (ENG)
Qualifier v Qualifier
Adrian Grant (ENG) v Simon Rosner (GER)
5-Gregory Gaultier (FRA) v Cameron Pilley (AUS)
6-Peter Barker (ENG) v Aaron Frankcomb (AUS)
Wael El Hindi (EGY) v Qualifier
Stewart Boswell (AUS) v Saurav Ghosal (IND)
2-Ramy Ashour (EGY) v Qualifier
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