American number one Timothy Brownell was one of three USA players to claim victory on day one of the Silicon Valley Open after he held off an inspired showing from local club pro Bransten Ming at Squash Zone in Redwood City.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brownell, who arrived at the Gold-level event on the back of a career-best title win at the Charlottesville Open, was forced to battle back from a game behind to defeat World No.236 Ming by a 9-11, 11-3, 11-5, 11-6 scoreline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ming started the match in superb style, stunning the three-time U.S. National Champion with some accurate attacking squash, but Brownell managed to move through the gears after the early barrage to claim victory after 49 minutes of play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We have a lot of history,” Brownell said after the match. “We played together in Juniors, and he always had the better of me. I thought that the physical side would be his weakness, so I tried to keep the ball in play, and I thought he would drop off, and he really didn’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I had to switch up the game plan, so I was impressed with him, to say the least, on the physical side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s a busy part of the season, and it’s where I wanted to prove myself, I want to show that I belong in the top group, and I’m starting to do that right now.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fellow U.S. hopefuls Sabrina Sobhy and Marina Stefanoni also treated the home crowd to victories after the pair eased past their respective opponents, Egyptian duo Menna Hamed and Mariam Metwally, in straight games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sobhy’s reward is a second-round date with defending champion and U.S. No.1 Olivia Weaver, a player she has enjoyed previous success against on the PSA Tour, having won four of their six meetings to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elsewhere, Balazs Farkas, Sana Ibrahim and Curtis Malik all claimed hard-fought five-game wins to secure their spots in the last-16. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
World No.47 Farkas delivered the perfect antidote to his recent quarter-final defeat at his home event, the Budapest Open, as he fought back from 2-1 down to defeat India’s Ramit Tandon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite losing six consecutive points in the mid-stages of a tight fifth game, the Hungarian No.1 held strong in the pressure moments to prevail by a 12-10, 5-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-8 scoreline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the match, Farkas said: “I was just trying to play aggressively throughout the match. I think I made too many mistakes though in periods. I still tried to stay active and aggressive in that fifth game through, and it worked out in the end.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Egypt’s Ibrahim and England’s Malik, meanwhile, got the better of Grace Gear and Shahjahan Khan in deciding games, while tournament Wildcard Amina El Rihany rounded out the day’s play with a three-game win over late injury replacement Cindy Merlo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Results <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Men’s Round One: <\/strong>Yannick Wilhelmi (SUI) bt Bernat Jaume (ESP) 3-1: 11-6, 11-13, 11-9, 11-4 (39m); Timothy Brownell (USA) bt [WC] Bransten Ming (USA) 3-1: 9-11, 11-3, 11-5, 11-6 (49m); Abhay Singh (IND) bt Karim El Hammamy (EGY) 3-0: 12-10, 11-7, 13-11 (56m); Curtis Malik (ENG) bt Shahjahan Khan (USA) 3-2: 11-8, 5-11, 11-8, 6-11, 11-5 (67m); Balazs Farkas (HUN)\u00a0bt Ramit Tandon (IND) 3-2: 12-10, 5-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-8 (57m); Kareem El Torkey (EGY) bt Velavan Senthilkumar (IND) 3-0: 11-3, 11-5, 11-9 (44m); Moustafa Elsirty (EGY) bt Alex Lau (HKG) 3-1: 11-5, 11-9, 7-11, 11-5 (45m); Juan Vargas (COL) bt Nathan Lake (ENG) 3-1:6-11, 11-7, 11-9 11-6 (56m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women’s Round One: <\/strong>Sabrina Sobhy (USA) bt Menna Hamed (EGY) 3-0: 11-4, 11-2, 11-5 (27m); Sana Ibrahim (EGY) bt Grace Gear (ENG) 3-2: 11-7, 6-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-8 (67m); Malak Khafagy\u00a0(EGY) bt [WC] Riva Bhagwati (USA) 3-1: 11-4, 5-11, 11-6, 12-10 (48m); Rachel Arnold (MAS) bt Aifa Azman (MAS) 3-1: 11-6, 9-11, 12-10, 15-13 (39m); Kenzy Ayman (EGY) bt Zeina Mickawy (EGY) 3-0: 11-4, 11-8, 11-3 (20m); Nour Aboulmakarim (EGY) bt Ka Yi Lee (HKG) 3-0: 11-8, 11-9, 11-3 (26m); Marina Stefanoni (USA) bt Mariam Metwally (EGY) 3-0: 11-8, 11-7, 11-7 (27m); Amina El Rihany (EGY) bt Cindy Merlo (SUI) 3-0: 11-3, 11-6, 11-9 (22m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" American number one Timothy Brownell was one of three USA players to claim victory on day one of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-squash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Squash-Timothy-Brownell_compressed-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}