Seven years after rupturing her left achilles in a PSA final, Team USA's Amanda Sobhy sustained another devastating injury set back--a rupture of her right achilles--in the final of the TTI Milwaukee Hong Kong Open Sunday, December 3.
Sobhy had been in top form in Hong Kong having produced a major three-game upset over world No. 1 Nour El Sherbini in the semifinals to reach what was her fourth career PSA Platinum final and first...
Team USA is guaranteed three women's individual medals at the 2023 Santiago Pan American Games, after Amanda Sobhy, Olivia Weaver and Marina Stefanoni all won their first two matches on the opening day of play Tuesday, October 31, at the Estadio Nacional in Chile.
The first three rounds of individual play opened up the quadrennial games' squash competition as five Americans took to the field of play.
Four of the five progressed through the second round...
Team USA's Olivia Fiechter and Amanda Sobhy are through to the quarterfinals of the Southwestern Open after second round wins Thursday, September 28, at the Houston Squash Club.
Both Fiechter and Sobhy opened up their campaigns with 3-0 victories to move on to the PSA Gold quarterfinals.
Fiechter, the three seed, defeated Egypt's Sana Ibrahim 12-10, 11-7, 11-1 in thirty-eight minutes.
“I’m really excited to get through that match, Sana was extremely aggressive and even until the...
Team USA's Sabrina Sobhy moved up three places in the PSA World Tour rankings this week to reach a new career high of world No. 13.
With the points for the 2022 CIB Egyptian Open expiring, there have been a number of movements inside the women’s top twenty, and Sobhy has been one of the beneficiaries.
The likes of Tesni Evans and Sarah-Jane Perry have seen their rankings tumble, meaning Sobhy has broken into the top...
Seventeen-year-old U.S. junior Riya Navani pulled off the first top fifty upset of her career, defeating Egypt's world No. 45 Nour Aboulmakarim in the first round of the Southwestern Open Wednesday, September 27, at Houston Squash Club.
Navani--a top-ranked U.S. junior from California--was making just her second appearance as a wild card in a PSA Gold event, following up her debut last fall at the Oracle NetSuite Open.
The American earned a 2-0 lead, but Aboulmakarim...
Three Americans will vie for the Southwestern Open title as top five seeds, September 27-October 1, in the second edition of the PSA Gold event at the Houston Squash Club.
World No. 5 Amanda Sobhy, world No. 9 Olivia Fiechter and world No. 15 Olivia Blatchford Clyne all enter the top half of the draw with hopes of reaching the final, but may need to get past each other first.
The Southwestern Open was shaken up...
