World No.11 Fayrouz Aboelkheir and World No.5 Joel Makin have been crowned the HKFC Squash Open 2025 champions after the pair claimed respective victories over Sivasangari Subramaniam and Youssef Ibrahim on finals day at the Silver-level event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teenage star Aboelkheir claimed up her third title from her last four events on the PSA Squash Tour with a superb upset win over top seed Sivasangari \u2013 a result which will see the Egyptian break into the top ten in the PSA Women\u2019s World Rankings for the first time in her career on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No.3 seed Aboelkheir, who arrived at the Hong Kong Football Club on the back of a title victory at the Chestnut Hill Classic, picked up where she left off from her semi-final upset win over USA\u2019s Amanda Sobhy, with her movement and shotmaking too much for her Malaysian opponent to handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sivasangari managed to turn the tide as she opened up a lead in the third before pulling a game back, but Aboelkheir was back on it from the start of the fourth, and there was no stopping her as she moved through to her fourth title of the 2025 calendar year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the match, Aboelkheir said: \u201cI\u2019m very happy with how I\u2019ve played the last two weeks. My second title in a month, I\u2019m happy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSiva is one of the top players, it\u2019s never easy to play her and I\u2019ve lost to her twice before, so I\u2019m really happy to win this time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The men\u2019s final saw top seed Makin take on Ibrahim for the fourth time this year, with those matches averaging 78 minutes in length. In the last meeting between the pair, it was the Egyptian who took the win in the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
British National Champion Makin started strongly, taking an early lead in the first two games, and despite a series of ferocious rallies, stayed ahead to take a healthy-looking two-game lead. Ibrahim began to free the arm at the start of the third game, and despite a number of slips and pauses for court maintenance, held on to reduce the deficit to 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final game was the quickest of all, though, as Makin pressed home his early advantage to close out the match after 77 minutes of high-octane squash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the 10th or 11th time we\u2019ve played,\u201d said Makin after the win. \u201cIt\u2019s always very explosive and physical and tonight was no different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe\u2019s come back well and started to take out some top guys, including me last time [at the U.S. Open], so it was nice to get a win tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed being here this week, the club and the atmosphere have been great, I\u2019ll be back for sure next year if it\u2019s on. I\u2019ve played four good matches, which sets me up well for next week, but it\u2019s a tough schedule with back-to-back tournaments here. I\u2019ll enjoy it for about two hours tonight, then it\u2019s back to business tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men:<\/strong> [1] Joel Makin (WAL) bt [4] Youssef Ibrahim (EGY) 3-1: 11-9, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6 (77m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women: <\/strong>[3] Fayrouz Aboelkheir (EGY) bt [1] Sivasangari Subramaniam (MAS) 3-1: 11-6, 11-9, 7-11, 11-4 (37m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World No.11 Fayrouz Aboelkheir and World No.5 Joel Makin have been crowned the HKFC Squash Open 2025 champions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6600,"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-6599","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\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_compressed.jpg",1536,941,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_compressed-300x184.jpg",300,184,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_compressed-768x471.jpg",640,393,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_compressed-1024x627.jpg",640,392,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_compressed.jpg",1536,941,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_compressed.jpg",1536,941,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_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\/11\/Aboelkheir-claimed-up-her-third-title_compressed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","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=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6601,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions\/6601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}