England’s rising star Jonah Bryant earned his first-ever victory over fellow countryman and former World No.1 Mohamed ElShorbagy to advance to the quarter finals of the Milwaukee Hong Kong Squash Open 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 20-year-old, who’s ranked at 14 in the PSA World Rankings, lost out to former World Champion ElShorbagy earlier this season at the London Squash Classic 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite ElShorbagy saving two of his compatriot’s match balls in the third and converting his own game ball opportunity, Bryant managed to avenge the earlier defeat with a 11-7, 11-7, 11-13, 11-5 victory at the Hong Kong Squash Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’m really happy, this is my third big quarter-final this year and obviously a tough opponent today in Mohamed. It’s always a big match coming through against a legend of the sport like Mohamed,” he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I think in London I got stuck behind him from the start of the match, and then he was in front which led to some quick lasting rallies. I thought today that if I was to lose any rallies, they were going to have to be long ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’ve had a big break between the U.S. Open and here, so I have had a good six-week block of training where I put a lot of hard work through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s a massive opportunity for both me and Leonel [Cardenas to get through to the semi-finals]. I was in this situation in Qatar a couple of months ago, so we’ll both give it everything and we will see who comes out on top.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bryant will meet Leonel Cardenas in the last eight after the Mexican was awarded a walkover victory due to Joel Makin withdrawing because of a knee injury. Top seed and defending champion Mostafa Asal also received a walkover after Mazen Hesham also withdrew due to injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asal takes on Frenchman Victor Crouin in the quarter finals on Thursday evening after the World No.8 took down teenage star Mohamad Zakaria in straight games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the women’s side of the draw, Sabrina Sobhy progressed to her first Platinum quarter-final since February 2024 after comfortably dispatching Kenzy Ayman 3-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sobhy, who defeated her older sister Amanda in five games yesterday, produced a clinical performance to win 11-3, 11-4, 11-2 over the Egyptian to earn her first appearance in the last eight of a Platinum since the Windy City Open nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eight-time World Champion Nour ElSherbini awaits in the quarter finals for Sobhy following her 3-0 success over fellow Egyptian Hana Ramadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two-time Hong Kong champion Hania El Hammamy defeated Tesni Murphy 3-1, while her quarter-final opponent Sivasangari Subramaniam won by the same scoreline against Melissa Alves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Women’s Round Two: <\/strong>[1] Hania El Hammamy (EGY) bt. Tesni Murphy (WAL) 3-1: 11-6, 11-2, 7-11, 11-8 (43m); [7] Sivasangari Subramaniam (MAS) bt. Melissa Alves (FRA) 3-1: 11-8, 5-11, 11-5, 11-7 (32m); Sabrina Sobhy (USA) bt. Kenzy Ayman (EGY) 3-0: 11-3, 11-4, 11-2 (21m); [3] Nour ElSherbini (EGY) bt. Hana Ramadan (EGY) 3-0: 11-5, 11-7, 11-7 (27m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men’s Round Two: <\/strong>1] Mostafa Asal (EGY) W\/O Mazen Hesham (EGY); [7] Victor Crouin (FRA) bt. Mohamad Zakaria (EGY) 3-0: 11-4, 11-8, 11-6 (49m); Jonah Bryant (ENG) bt. [6] Mohamed ElShorbagy (ENG) 3-1: 11-7, 11-7, 11-13, 11-5 (50m); Leonel Cardenas (MEX) W\/O [3] Joel Makin (WAL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" England’s rising star Jonah Bryant earned his first-ever victory over fellow countryman and former World No.1 Mohamed ElShorbagy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6698,"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":[7],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-6697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-squash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t