Semi-Finals : Second seeds toppled as finalists are decided
The 2025 Palm Hills Open continued tonight with four semi-final matches on the Glass Court.
Top seeds Nouran Gohar and Mostafa Asal progressed with straight-game wins over Fayrouz Aboelkheir and Youssef Soliman, and in the finals they’ll meet Satomi Watanabe – who came from a game down to shock second seed Amina Orfi – and Karim Abdel Gawad – who beat men’s second seed Tarek Momen in straight games.
Check out the reports and reaction below the results …
Women’s Semis :
[1] Nouran Gohar (Egy) 3-0 [6] Fayrouz Aboelkheir (Egy) 11-9, 11-4, 11-5 (35m)
[3] Satomi Watanabe (Jpn) 3-1 [2] Amina Orfi (Egy) 7-11, 11-8, 11-9, 11-8 (54m)
Men’s Semis :
[1] Mostafa Asal (Egy) 3-0 [4] Youssef Soliman (Egy) 11-3, 11-1, 7-0 rtd (29m)
[3] Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy) 3-0 [2] Tarek Momen (Egy) 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 (45m)
Reports & Reaction
F: Intense battle but Asal prevail against Gawad…
F: Nouran Steamrolls Satomi
Nouran expeditive and never let Satomi have a sniff at the title… […]
SF: Karim in 3 against mate Tarek
SF: Soliman injured retires against Asal
SF: Satomi upsets the seeding and the crowd….
SF: Nouran superbly clinical against Fayrouz
QF: A simple affair between friends, Karim v Dimitri
QF: Farida all over the place against Satomi
QF: Tarek talks of the “Future of Squash” after their battle
QF: High Quality squash but Salma retires sick vs Amina
QF: Fayrouz at the end of the suspense against Nele
QF: Youssef at the end of the night against Karim
QF: Asal 3-1 Abou
QF: Nada so close, but Nouran prevails
R2: Tarek overcomes dangerous Bernie
