By IANS,
Chennai: Amr Khaled Khalifa of Egypt and Hong Kong’s Joey Chan won the PSA and WISPA Challenger squash titles here Saturday.
Unseeded Khalifa overcame fourth seeded Abdullah Al Mezayen of Kuwait 11-9, 10-12, 11-7, 7-11, 13-11 in 65 minutes in the men’s final while in the women’s final, a focused second-seeded Chan defeated third-seeded Laura Siddall of England 11-2, 11-6, 11-6 in 25 minutes.
Mezayen, exhibited his skills in winning the crunch points, but lacked the punch in yielding the last two points, which he repented seconds after the match was over.
Whenever the Kuwaiti wriggled his way to front court play, Mezayen was unstoppable and rarely missed to score from his winners. On the other hand, Khalifa was more composed, he kept the ball in play and waited for his chances to score.
It was a brilliant final with both players showing immense respect for each other and fighting until the end.
Siddall made a series of unforced errors from the beginning of the match and never came up with appreciable drop, even the easy ones, unlike Friday when she defeated top seed Joshna Chinappa of India.