Nicole Bunyan delighted her home crowd on day one of the Canadian Women’s Open 2025 after staging an excellent comeback victory against Amina El Rihany at Brookfield Place in Toronto. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bunyan, backed by a partisan crowd, fought back from 2-1 down against the young Egyptian to notch an 11-8, 4-11, 2-11, 11-6, 11-9 victory at the Silver-level event on the PSA Squash Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The request for a new ball from the Canadian No.2 at the end of the third looked to have halted El Rihany’s momentum as the 22-year-old appeared to be in full control with a 2-1 lead. However Bunyan roared back to clinch a place in round two by overturning the deficit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“That was an uncomfortable match for sure!” she said afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Even though I won the first it was tough going. I put a lot of work into her but I was feeling it a little bit with the nerves and everything. I’ve been wanting to get a good win under my belt this season which had yet to come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I found myself down but after I won that first I dipped a little bit and she started using that soft ball and started attacking a lot. I had to grind my way back into it and fortunately somehow I did.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saran Nghiem also produced a sensational fightback as she recovered from 2-0 down to dispatch Haya Ali 3-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nghiem’s reward is a second round meeting with top seed Amina Orfi, who lost out to Hania El Hammamy this evening in the Comcast Business U.S Open title decider in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“To have support is amazing and to everyone who came out today, we really appreciate it,” she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I didn’t have anyone in my corner until the last game when Lucy [Beecroft] came and really kicked my butt! I didn’t think about the ranking too much, when I was 0-2 down I wanted to put in a good performance and not have any regrets.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Home hopes ended for Canadian wildcards Niki Shemirani and Danielle Ray after losing out to Alicia Mead and Nour Heikal, respectively. Egypt’s Nardine Garas came from 2-1 down to overcome Xin Ying Yee, while Anahat Singh and Marta Dominguez beat Cindy Merlo and Tsz-Wing Tong, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the Toronto Athletic Club Open 2025 also kicked off today. The first two rounds of the Copper-level men’s event are being held at the Toronto Athletic Club, with the stunning glass court at Brookfield Place hosting the quarter finals onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perry Malik claimed one of the biggest results of the opening day after he downed former World No.17 Cesar Salazar comprehensively 3-0 in 24 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Results <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Round One: <\/strong>Saran Nghiem (ENG) bt. Haya Ali (EGY) 3-2: 6-11, 8-11, 11-6, 12-10, 11-3 (43m); Nardine Garas (EGY) bt. Xin Ying Yee\u00a0(MAS) 3-2: 12-10, 5-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-8 (47m); Nicole Bunyan (CAN) bt. Amina El Rihany (EGY) 3-2: 11-8, 4-11, 2-11, 11-6, 11-9\u00a0(57m); Alicia Mead (ENG) bt. Niki Shemirani\u00a0(CAN) 3-0: 11-6, 11-7, 11-4 (23m); Marta Dominguez (ESP) bt. Tsz-Wing Tong (HKG) 3-1: 11-8, 11-6, 6-11, 13-11 (45m); Nour Heikal (EGY) bt. Danielle Ray (CAN) 3-0: 11-5, 11-9, 11-3 (22m); Anahat Singh (IND) bt. Cindy Merlo (SUI) 3-0: 11-3, 11-3, 11-4 (17m); Torrie Malik (ENG) bt. Hannah Craig (IRL) 3-0: 11-7, 12-10, 11-3 (31m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nicole Bunyan delighted her home crowd on day one of the Canadian Women’s Open 2025 after staging an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5215,"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":[],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicole-Bunyan_compressed.jpg",2048,1365,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicole-Bunyan_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicole-Bunyan_compressed-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicole-Bunyan_compressed-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicole-Bunyan_compressed-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicole-Bunyan_compressed-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicole-Bunyan_compressed.jpg",2048,1365,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicole-Bunyan_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nicole-Bunyan_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\/Nicole-Bunyan_compressed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","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=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}