World No 1 Elshorbagy Over Mosaad to Lift Inaugural Colombia Open Crown by Sean Reuthe photo PSA
February 20, 2016
- World No.1 Mohamed Elshorbagy captured the 19th PSA World Tour title
of his career after beating fellow Egyptian Omar Mosaad in the final of
the 2016 Taeq SquashColombia PSA Open in Cartagena to win the most
lucrative squash tournament ever to be held in South America.
The
25-year-old earned his spot in the final after defeating brother Marwan
in the previous round while World No.4 Mosaad came through a gruelling
five-game battle against World No.11 Tarek Momen to secure his place in
the showpiece event.
Mosaad started strongly after a
plethora of unforced errors from his opponent enabled him to build up a
lead in the opening game but Elshorbagy fought back to take the opener.
The errors from Elshorbagy reared their head again in the second to
allow Mosaad to level proceedings before a rampant Elshorbagy found
himself back in the ascendancy after taking the third for the loss of
just three points.
Both players upped their game towards the
end of the match, with the quality of squash increasing as some
enthralling rallies played out in front of an enraptured crowd. After
finding himself 7-4 down after some fantastic industry from Mosaad,
Elshorbagy finally pushed on to turn the tables and wrap up the win
with an 11-9, 7-11, 11-3, 11-9 margin of victory to take his second PSA
World Tour title of 2016 in only his third tournament of the New Year.
“I want to congratulate Omar and his team for an amazing week,” said Elshorbagy.
“He
has been having such a great season, he absolutely deserves to be where
he is in the rankings right now and I look forward to more great
matches with him in the future.
“This is by far the best tournament I’ve played in my life. I’ve absolutely loved it.”
