RESULTS: CIMB KL Open Squash Championships, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Women's quarter-finals:
[1] Nicol David (MAS) bt Annelize Naude (NED) 9-0, 9-0, 10-8 (23m)
[4] Natalie Grinham (AUS) bt Jenny Duncalf (ENG) 2-9, 9-2, 1-9, 9-0, 9-0 (51m)
Madeline Perry (IRL) bt [3] Rachael Grinham (AUS) 9-1, 9-7, 9-1 (35m)
[2] Vanessa Atkinson (NED) bt [7] Natalie Grainger (USA) 10-8, 9-4, 9-0 (27m)
Semi-finals:
[1] Nicol David (MAS) bt [4] Natalie Grinham (AUS) 4-9, 3-9, 9-2, 9-2, 10-9 (63m)
[2] Vanessa Atkinson (NED) bt Madeline Perry (IRL) 9-7, 9-0, 10-8 (35m)
Men's quarter-finals:
[1] Mohd Azlan Iskandar (MAS) bt [7] Hisham Mohd Ashour (EGY) 11-10 (3-1), 11-8, 11-5 (35m)
[4] Adrian Grant (ENG) bt [5] Shahier Razik (CAN) 10-11 (0-2), 9-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-8 (95m)
[3] Wael El Hindi (EGY) bt [6] Mansoor Zaman (PAK) 11-10 (2-0), 11-10 (2-0), 5-11, 11-6 (37m)
[2] Ong Beng Hee (MAS) bt [8] Ramy Ashour (EGY) 8-11, 11-5, 11-10 (2-0), 11-2 (54m)
Semi-finals:
[1] Mohd Azlan Iskandar (MAS) bt [4] Adrian Grant (ENG) 11-10 (2-0), 2-11, 11-8, 11-7 (57m)
[2] Ong Beng Hee (MAS) bt [3] Wael El Hindi (EGY) 11-7, 11-6, 11-3 (37m)
Favourites To Contest KL Finals
The two top seeds will contest both the women's and men's finals of the CIMB KL Open – with favourites Nicol David and Mohd Azlan Iskandar hoping to pull off a domestic double in the major tour event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Defending women's champion Nicol David reached the final for the sixth time since 1999, but had to fight back from 0/2 down against Australia's fourth seed Natalie Grinham before beating one of her Amsterdam training partners 4-9 3-9 9-2 9-2 10-9 in 63 minutes.
World champion David, looking for her first WISPA World Tour title win on home soil since becoming world number one, is celebrating her 22nd appearance in a WISPA final.
Her opponent will be second seed Vanessa Atkinson, the world No2 from the Netherlands who ended the brave run of Ireland's unseeded Madeline Perry. The Irish No1 scored the best scalp of her career when she despatched Australia's third seed Rachael Grinham, the former world No1 from Queensland, 9-1 9-7 9-1 in the quarter-finals.
In today's (Friday) semi-finals, however, Atkinson proved too strong and beat the new world number ten 9-7 9-0 10-8 to reach her 31st WISPA final – and the second KL final since beating David in the 2004 climax.
Mohd Azlan Iskandar battled for 57 minutes to reserve his place in the men's final. The 2003 champion from Sarawak faced fourth seed Adrian Grant – and beat the English left-hander from London 11-10 2-11 11-8 11-7.
Second seed Ong Beng Hee is making his first appearance in the KL Open final since finishing as runner-up in 1999. The 26-year-old overcame Egypt's No3 seed Wael El Hindi 11-7 11-6 11-3 in 37 minutes and is now in his 16th PSA Tour final.