RESULTS:        Osso/Bone & Joint Oklahoma City Squash Open, Oklahoma, USA

 

1st round:

[1] Julian Illingworth (USA) bt Patrick Chifunda (ZAM)        11-1, 11-9, 11-6

[5] Jonathan Harford (ENG) bt Keith Pritchard (CAN)          11-9, 11-1, 11-2

Campbell Grayson (NZL) bt [3] Dylan Bennett (NED)              11-8, 11-8, 11-8

[6] Bernardo Samper (COL) bt Gilly Lane (USA)                    11-4, 10-11 (0-2), 11-7, 7-11, 11-9

[8] Badr Abdel Aziz (SWE) bt Yann Perrin (FRA)                  11-9, 10-11 (0-2), 11-8, 11-5

Regardt Schonborn (RSA) bt [4] Mohd Ali Anwar Reda (EGY)   6-11, 11-5, 6-11, 11-9, 11-6

Jethro Binns (WAL) bt [7] Tony James (AUS)                       11-5, 11-8, 11-7

[2] Yasser El Halaby (EGY) bt Shaun le Roux (ENG)              5-11, 11-3, 11-7, 3-11, 11-7

    Quarter-finals:

[1] Julian Illingworth (USA) bt [5] Jonathan Harford (ENG)    9-11, 11-4, 11-4, 11-9

[6] Bernardo Samper (COL) bt Campbell Grayson (NZL)         11-9, 9-11, 5-11, 11-4, 11-8

[8] Badr Abdel Aziz (SWE) bt Regardt Schonborn (RSA)      11-7, 10-11 (5-7), 11-5, 7-11, 11-8

[2] Yasser El Halaby (EGY) bt Jethro Binns (WAL)                11-6, 8-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-9

    Semi-finals:

[1] Julian Illingworth (USA) bt [6] Bernardo Samper (COL)   11-5, 5-11, 11-8, 11-7

[2] Yasser El Halaby (EGY) bt [8] Badr Abdel Aziz (SWE)    10-11 (2-4), 11-6, 11-7, 11-7


 

Former US collegiate rivals Julian Illingworth and Yasser El Halaby will contest the final of the Osso/Bone & Joint Oklahoma City Open after coming through four-game semi-finals in the $10,000 PSA Tour squash event at the Santa Fe Club in the US city of Oklahoma.

 

Top seed Illingworth, a former Yale graduate, beat Bernardo Samper, the sixth seed from Colombia, 11-5, 5-11, 11-8, 11-7 to reach the third PSA Tour final of his career. 

 

The 24-year-old from Portland will be seeking his maiden Tour title - and keen to avenge the defeat by El Halaby in his last PSA final, at the Baltimore Cup in Baltimore in November.

 

Egypt's second seed Yasser El Halaby recovered from a game down to despatch Sweden's Badr Abdel Aziz, the No8 seed, 10-11 (2-4), 11-6, 11-7, 11-7. 

 

The only four-time winner of the men's national intercollegiate squash championship, Princeton graduate El Halaby is celebrating his seventh PSA Tour final appearance - and looking for his fourth title.