Top seed of the Canadian Women\u2019s Open Amina Orfi produced a clinical display to down 2023 champion Amanda Sobhy in straight games to book her place in the final. She will play England No.1 Gina Kennedy, who halted rising star Anahat Singh\u2019s dream run in the other semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Orfi \u2013 who was runner-up at the US Open last Saturday \u2013 has been in excellent form since arriving in Toronto, winning both her previous rounds in straight games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it was Sobhy who came firing out of the blocks in the opening game, utilising the boast superbly to open up a 9-3 lead. Orfi\u2019s length hitting improved, pinning the former World No.3 into the back corners as the young Egyptian registered eight successive points to go 1-0 up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Orfi, who had lost all three previous meetings with Sobhy on the PSA Squash Tour prior to today\u2019s encounter, carried through her momentum from the first game into the second while too many errors from Sobhy proved costly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After an evenly-contested third as Sobhy bid to find a foothold back in the contest, Orfi pulled clear at the business end as she converted match ball at the second time of asking to advance to the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI started playing against her when she was the World No.3 and she beat me three times in a row,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe played in Qatar, the U.S Open and in Hong Kong so it was a lot but things are different now and I\u2019ve got a lot more experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt comes naturally to me [taking about her mental resilience], we play a lot of matches in Egypt, matches in league, in training and in juniors so we play a lot. I just got used to it and I\u2019ve been playing now for two weeks consecutively so there\u2019s no time to really think about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt [the rise of junior levels] says that there\u2019s up and coming players. I know Anahat [Singh] has had two really good wins. Anahat has been a rival of mine in the juniors and it\u2019s great to see her competing at this level too and a representative from India on the tour too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the other semi-finals, England No.1 Gina Kennedy defeated Singh with a tactical masterclass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
17-year-old Singh claimed two, big victories on the way to the semi finals after taking down World No.20 Melissa Alves and defending champion Tinne Gilis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the semi-finals proved to be a one step too far for the Indian youngster, as Kennedy\u2019s backhand boast was troubling Singh on a number of occasions in the first as the Englishwoman won 11-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kennedy was completely nullifying Singh by putting her under pressure on her backhand side and exposing her movement by taking the second 11-8 for a two-game advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe\u2019s [Anahat Singh] had a great tournament this week and I said to my coach back home that she\u2019s such a natural squash player, you can\u2019t coach that deceptive swing that she has and how she moves the ball around. She was maybe a little tired from the week which is to be expected,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut I felt in control of that match throughout it all but i\u2019m not happy with how I ended it. I tried to end it too early and nearly got found out but I\u2019m just glad I could get through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was trying to rush her as much as possible, I didn\u2019t want to give her time on the ball and time for her to use her deceptive swing so I just tried to hurry her and I felt like my short stuff was working well In the beginning but maybe I did a little too much at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think me and Amina have played for over a year or so now so I\u2019m actually really excited to play her. She\u2019s obviously in great form, it\u2019s so impressive what she\u2019s been doing recently. I think last season I wasn\u2019t making my seeding as often so I haven\u2019t played the top girls for a while so I\u2019m really looking forward to that tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, at the Toronto Athletic Club Open top seed and defending champion Leonel Cardenas recovered from 1-0 down to overcome Moustafa ElSirty in the semi-finals at Brookfield Place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He will play second seed Yahya Elnawasany in the finals, after the Egyptian overcame Sam Todd of Englad in his semi-finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Semi-final results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Canadian Open: <\/strong>[4] Georgina Kennedy (ENG) bt. Anahat Singh (IND) 3-0: 11-5, 11-8, 12-10 (30m);[1] Amina Orfi (EGY) bt. [3] Amanda Sobhy (USA) 3-0: 11-9, 11-2, 11-9 (39m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Toronto Athletic Club Open: <\/strong>[1] Leonel Cardenas (MEX) bt. [4] Moustafa Elsirty (EGY) 3-1: 8-11, 14-12, 11-3, 11-6 (62m); [2] Yahya Elnawasany (EGY) bt. Sam Todd (ENG) 3-1: 11-6, 7-11, 11-7, 11-8 (71m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Top seed of the Canadian Women\u2019s Open Amina Orfi produced a clinical display to down 2023 champion Amanda<\/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-5415","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\/5415","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=5415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5415\/revisions\/5416"}],"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=5415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}