The final match of the day at the Windy City Open in Chicago saw England\u2019s Jonah Bryant claim an epic comeback victory over World No.5 Joel Makin after 101 minutes of scintillating play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the all-British second-round tie, which proved to be a battle of stamina and endurance, multiple three-minute rallies became a regular occurrence, with the World No. 5 taking a two-game lead after 53 minutes of play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, this proved to be only the start of the drama with Bryant securing a signature victory over the British No.1 \u2013 winning the third game in 21 minutes. After winning the third, Bryant led a determined performance to overcome Makin for the first time winning the following two games 11-7, 11-5 to secure a third major event quarter final of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m very happy to get through,\u201d said Bryant after his comeback. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think we played a high-quality match. Joel\u2019s had a really bad injury recently. His first tournament back. He\u2019s clearly struggling so I won\u2019t take it as a full-merit win but I\u2019m pleased to get the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bryant will now take on World No.1 Mostafa Asal, who made light work of India\u2019s Abhay Singh to progress. The other top-half men\u2019s quarter final will be an England versus France clash as Marwan Elshorbagy and Gregoire Marche both recorded four-game victories over Youssef Soliman and Matias Knudsen, respectovely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the women\u2019s event, Belgium\u2019s World No.10 Tinne Gilis claimed revenge over India\u2019s 17-year-old Anahat Singh in the match of the day. Gilis suffered a shock loss to Singh earlier this season at the Canadian Women\u2019s Open and found herself 2-0 down once again in the penultimate match of the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Belgian No.1 struggled to get the best of Anahat in the opening two games, losing 11-6, 11-9 within 20 minutes. However, momentum began to shift for the European No.2 in the third game, with Anahat picking up an ankle injury that persisted for the rest of the tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With issues growing for the 17-year-old, Gilis was able to capitalise and take control of the contest, winning the third 11-4 in five minutes. Gilis then made light work of Anahat in the following two games and stormed through to win 11-6, 11-4, securing her place in a second successive quarter final at the Windy City Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI had nothing to lose anyway, I was down and out for the first two games, she was dominating me she was playing really well, I just didn\u2019t really know what to do, and in that third all I wanted to do was fight back and don\u2019t give her the match too easy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI changed my tactic, and I changed my mindset and just went for it and I am just really happy that I found the fire to comeback from 2-0 down and that is what I am most proud of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gilis will take on World No.1 Hania El Hammamy on Sunday afternoon after she needed less than half an hour to take down England\u2019s Lucy Beecroft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eight-time World Champion Nour ElSherbini will take on Sivasangari Subramaniam in the next round after the two top eight seeds defeated Egyptian duo Hana Ramadan and Kenzy Ayman in confident fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Round Two Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Women\u2019s: <\/strong>[1] Hania El Hammamy (EGY) bt Lucy Beecroft (ENG) 3-0: 11-9, 11-7, 11-2 (29m); [7] Tinne Gilis (BEL) bt Anahat Singh (IND) 3-2: 6-11, 9-11, 11-4, 11-6, 11-4 (49m); [6] Sivasangari Subramaniam (MAS) bt Kenzy Ayman (EGY) 3-1: 11-5, 11-4, 10-12, 11-6 (36m); [3] Nour ElSherbini (EGY) bt Hana Ramadan (EGY) 3-0: 11-3, 11-5, 11-7 (25m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Results: <\/strong>[1] Mostafa Asal (EGY) bt Abhay Singh (IND) 3-0: 11-8, 11-5, 11-7 (43m); Jonah Bryant (ENG) bt [5] Joel Makin (WAL) 3-2: 8-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-5 (101m); [6] Marwan Elshorbagy (ENG) bt Youssef Soliman (EGY) 3-1: 11-3, 7-11, 11-6, 11-6 (52m); Gregoire Marche (FRA) bt [WC] Matias Knudsen (COL) 3-1: 11-8, 8-11, 11-5, 11-4 (51m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The final match of the day at the Windy City Open in Chicago saw England\u2019s Jonah Bryant claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9107,"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-9106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-squash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1.jpg",2560,1706,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1-1024x682.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/joel-makin-jonah-bryant-26wc11084-FnES0w__hA-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106","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=9106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9108,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions\/9108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}