Day Eight : Quarters Part Two
Quarter-Finals Part Two
It was a night of upsets in the second day of quarter-final play at the Abu Tig Marina as Nouran Gohar and Fares Dessouky put out second seeds Nour El Sherbini and Mohamed Elshorbagy.
First up was an Anglo-French match in which Camille Serme came from a game down to beat SJ Perry, then it was three all-Egyptian battles.
It wasn’t an upset, but Karim Abdel Gawad‘s straight-game win over defending champion Marwan ElShorbagy was somewhat of a surprise.
Two huge upsets followed as Gohar put an end to a nine-match losing streak against Sherbini, winning in five tense games.
Dessouky finished the night with his first ever win over former champion ElShorbagy, to guarantee a new men’s champion.
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[4] Camille Serme (Fra) 3-1 [6] Sarah-Jane Perry (Eng) 12-14, 13-11, 11-8, 12-10 (61m)
[4] Karim Abdel Gawad (Egy) 3-0 Marwan ElShorbagy (Egy) 11-9, 12-10, 11-6 (43m)
[8] Nouran Gohar (Egy) 3-2 [2] Nour El Sherbini (Egy) 11-9, 9-11, 11-7, 8-11, 12-10 (74m)
[wc] Fares Dessouky (Egy) 3-1 [2] Mohamed ElShorbagy (Egy) 15-13, 11-4, 8-11, 11-9 (61m)
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