Day FOUR : Momen survives as quarter-finals completed
The 2025 Palm Hills Open continued tonight with four quarter-final matches from the bottom half of the draws.
All the matches went to seeding as Amina Orfi and Satomi Watanabe booked their women’s semi-final meeting, while Karim Abdel Gawad and Tarek Momen won contrasting men’s quarters.
Chcek out the reports and reaction below the results …
Women’s Quarters :
[3] Satomi Watanabe (Jpn) 3-0 [8] Farida Mohamed (Egy) 11-6, 14-12, 11-5 (33m)
[2] Amina Orfi (Egy) 3-0 [7] Salma Hany (Egy) 12-10, 11-9, 5-2 rtd (49m)
Men’s Quarters :
[3] Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy) 3-0 [6] Dimitri Steinmann (Sui) 11-7, 11-8, 11-7 (39m)
[2] Tarek Momen (Egy) 3-2 [7] Mohamed Zakaria (Egy) 11-8, 13-15, 11-3, 6-11, 11-8 (106m)
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
