Canadian Women’s Open top seed Amina Orfi comfortably secured her place in the semi finals after toppling fellow Egyptian Nardine Garas at Brookfield Place, Toronto.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Orfi, who arrived in Toronto five hours before her second round match after featuring in the final of the US Open in Philadelphia on Saturday night, dispatched her compatriot Garas 3-0 to progress to the last four of the Silver-level event.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The World No.3 was tested by Garas – who was making her quarter-final debut at a Silver event on the PSA Squash Tour – in the opening game but Orfi moved through the gears to close out a 11-7, 11-3, 11-5 victory in just 26 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“My body is feeling a lot better. Hopefully tomorrow with my day off I’ll be even more ready for the semi-finals,” she said post-match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’ll train, finish some college work and maybe go out and have a look around. It’s my first time in Toronto so I just want to go out and see how it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I don’t solo practice every day, but at least three times per week. Usually for around an hour and a half or two hours.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Orfi’s semi-final opponent will be 2023 champion Amanda Sobhy, who also claimed a 3-0 success in her quarter-final clash with Tesni Murphy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sobhy, who had won all eight of the previous meetings with Murphy on the PSA Squash Tour, extended that streak to nine matches with a straight games triumph. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
World No.9 Sobhy, who was runner-up last year to Tinne Gilis, chalked up a 12-10, 11-8, 11-7 win to tee up a semi-final showdown with Orfi – which will be their first meeting on Tour in two years when they lock horns on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Amina (Orfi) has been crushing it this season,” she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“She’s definitely a force but when we played last season, all the pressure was on me and she was the underdog but now the roles are reversed and I’m looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, in the Toronto Athletic Club Open, a men’s Copper-level event where the quarter finals onwards are also being held at Brookfield Place, No.4 seed Moustafa ElSirty recovered from 2-0 down to defeat unseeded Perry Malik 3-2 for his place in the last four.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Egyptian will take on defending champion Leonel Cardenas next, who moved a step closer to retaining his title with a 3-0 win over Mohamed Sharaf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quarter Finals Canadian Open: <\/strong>[1] Amina Orfi (EGY) bt. Nardine Garas (EGY) 3-0: 11-7, 11-3, 11-5\u00a0(26m); [3] Amanda Sobhy (USA) bt. [5] Tesni Murphy (WAL) 3-0: 12-10, 11-8, 11-7\u00a0(35m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quarter Finals Toronto Athletic Club Open: <\/strong>[1] Leonel Cardenas (MEX) bt. Mohamed Sharaf (EGY) 3-0: 11-4, 11-5, 11-9 (41m); [4] Moustafa Elsirty (EGY) bt. Perry Malik (ENG) 3-2: 8-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-3 (69m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Canadian Women’s Open top seed Amina Orfi comfortably secured her place in the semi finals after toppling fellow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5333,"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-5332","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\/Amina-Orfi_compressed.jpg",2048,1365,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amina-Orfi_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amina-Orfi_compressed-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amina-Orfi_compressed-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amina-Orfi_compressed-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amina-Orfi_compressed-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amina-Orfi_compressed.jpg",2048,1365,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amina-Orfi_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amina-Orfi_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\/Amina-Orfi_compressed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","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=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}