Champion Ramy Ashour Confirms Rowe British Squash Grand Prix Entry
June 29, 2011 -World
number two Ramy Ashour will defend his title in September’s Rowe
British Grand Prix Squash Championship in Manchester.
The Rowe British Grand Prix – Manchester 2011, one of the
year’s nine PSA World Series championships and the biggest event
to be staged in the UK in 2011, will take place at the National Squash
Centre in Manchester from 19-25 September.
Two years after becoming one of the youngest ever World Champions at
the venue in October 2008, Ashour returned to the National Squash
Centre last September to win the 2010 Rowe British Grand Prix in style
– beating home hope James Willstrop, the world No 4 from
Yorkshire, in a four-game final.
It was in August 2004 that Ashour first came to worldwide
attention: The 16-year-old stunned the squash world by becoming
the youngest ever World Junior Champion when seeded only to make the
quarter-finals. Two years later he successfully defended his
title in New Zealand to become the first man in history to win the
world's leading junior title twice.
And Ashour’s World Open win in Manchester three years ago made
him only the second player in history – after the Pakistan legend
Jansher Khan – to win both the junior and senior world crowns.
Cairo’s “King of Squash”, now aged just 23, has
already notched up 20 PSA World Tour titles - and in January 2010
topped the world rankings for the first time.
“Ramy is one the game’s most exciting players, who attracts
crowds wherever he plays,” said Paul Walters, CEO of event
promoters internationalSPORTgroup.
“I am delighted that he has confirmed his entry for the 2011
championship, where he is set to renew his rivalry with Nick Matthew,
the Englishman who replaced him as world number one at the beginning of
this year.”
The tournament will be the fourth PSA World Series event of the year, following the Australian Open in Canberra in August.
Tickets can now be booked online at www.isportgroup.com/ticketing