Round TWO:

[5] Mohamed Elshorbagy (Egy) 3-0 Laurens Jan Anjema (Ned)
           11/7, 11/6, 11/8 (37m)
[6] Amr Shabana (Egy) 3-0 Steve Coppinger (Rsa)
            11/3, 11/4, 11/5 (28m)
[7] Borja Golan (Esp) 3-0 Tom Richards (Eng)
            11/6, 11/7, 12/10 (56m)
Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy) 3-2 [8] Tarek Momen (Egy)
            11/9, 5/11, 11/9, 9/11, 12/10 (82m)

Daryl Selby (Eng) 3-2 [2] James Willstrop (Eng)
             11/8, 11/5, 4/11, 9/11, 13/11 (89m)
[4] Karim Darwish (Egy) 3-1 Omar Mosaad (Egy)
           11/9, 4/11, 11/6, 11/5 (55m)
[1] Gregory Gaultier (Fra) 3-0 Cameron Pilley (Aus)
          11/9, 11/6, 11/4 (40m)
[3] Nick Matthew (Eng) 3-0 Miguel Angel Rodriguez (Col)
           11/6, 11/7, 13/11 (54m)

Round Two Roundup

First through to the quarter-finals was Mohamed Elshorbagy, who beat Dutchman LJ Anjema in straight games. The Egyptian was in control for the first two games and although Anjema made the third much tougher, the Egyptian always maintained a gap of two or three points, closing out the match as Anjema tinned a volley.

What followed was a masterclass from another Egyptian as Amr Shabana eased past Steve Coppinger in less than half an hour, with a display of easy-looking attacking squash that left the big South African trailing in his wake.

Spain’s Borja Golan claimed his seeded place in the quarters with a hard-fought three-game win over Tom Richards. Always playing catchup in the first two games, Richards fought back to earn two game balls in the third, but four points in a row - finishing on a stroke as Golan’s swing was impaired - were enough top see the Spaniard through.

The afternoon session closed with a third Egyptian winner as Karim Abdel Gawad pulled off the first upset of the tournament, beating eight-seed Tarek Momen 12-10 in the fifth in an up and down thriller. After the first two games were shared Gawad almost lost a good lead in the third,, almost pulled back a big deficit in the fourth, then saved a match ball in the decider before having to reset a contact lens before clinching the match on his first match ball.

In the evening session it was the turn of the top four seeds to take to court, and there was a big shock in the first match as Daryl Selby recorded his first-ever win over fellow Englishman James Willstrop, the second seed, Selby took a 2-0 lead but Willstrop levelled. Selby led the decider 5-0, then trailed 5-8 and saved two match balls before winning the match 13-11 with a behind-the-back winner !



Karim Darwish put a stop to the upsets as he beat fellow-Egyptian Omar Mosaad in four games, and top seed Gregory Gaultier pulled back a first game deficit to beat Cameron Pilley in straight games.

That was an end to the upsets though, as Karim Darwish beat fellow-Egyptian Omar Mosaad in four games to make it four Egyptians in the quarter-finals, top seed Gregory Gaultier pulled back a first game deficit to beat Cameron Pilley in straight games, and newly-recrowned world champion Nick Matthew stopped speedy Miguel Angel Rodriguez in straight games.

watch the amazing winning shot