Hutton Upsets No.4 Seed Gilis to Reach London Classic Quarters

England’s World No.18 Jasmine Hutton has reached the quarter-finals of the London Squash Classic presented by Bassim Haidar for the first time after she came back from a game down to beat No.4 seed Tinne Gilis at Alexandra Palace earlier today.

Hutton is the highest-ranked British player remaining in the women’s draw and had won just one of her previous seven matches against the Belgian No.1 coming into today’s match at the Gold-level event.

The 26-year-old went behind after an accurate start from Gilis, but she fought back and found her lines in the next two games to complete the win. Hutton will now go up against defending champion Sivasangari Subramaniam after the Malaysian beat Tomato Ho 11-7, 12-10.

“It’s such an iconic venue and such a special place, so there were a lot of nerves,” said Hutton afterwards.

“I also didn’t play Nationals, so hadn’t quite had the match practice I would have liked. Tinne came out firing and my accuracy wasn’t good enough at the start, she just picked me off every second she could. I had to regroup and gain a bit more accuracy in that second game.

“It’s just an amazing venue and when you have so many friends and family being able to come you just want to showcase what you’ve worked on over the summer.”

Georgina Kennedy – the women’s England No.1 – suffered an early exit as she lost to Scotland’s World No.22 Georgia Adderley in the day’s other big upset.

Adderley had lost all nine of her matches against Kennedy on the PSA Squash Tour coming into today’s encounter, but all of those matches came under a best-of-five games format. Adderley’s aggressive attacking game paid dividends in the best of three format as she fought back from a game behind to win 6-11, 11-8, 11-7.

“I’m over the moon,” said Adderley.

“She’s a phenomenal player and she’s had a really good few years. The last couple have also been pretty tight against her, so I knew I could compete and I felt like the best of three kind of favoured me in that way. I’m really proud of myself. You have to really empty the tank and make it as physical possible, which I tried to do today.”

Adderley will go up against Egypt’s World No.5 Amina Orfi for a place in the semi-finals, with Orfi scoring a comfortable win against USA’s Sabrina Sobhy.

Men’s defending champion Paul Coll suffered a scare in his match with Egypt’s Mohamed Abouelghar, overturning three match balls to secure his place in the last eight.

Abouelghar – who reached a highest world ranking of No.7 in 2019 – had Coll under his spell for large portions of the match, but the Kiwi held his nerve and profited off crucial errors from the Egyptian’s racket at the business end of the third game.

Coll said: “I mentally felt great out there.

“I’ve actually been playing very well for months now in practice, but it just wasn’t clicking for me today. Mentally, I was switched on, so I was always confident I could find the way through that. He wasn’t missing and playing best of three against Abouelghar in the first match this season is a tough one.”

Coll will play Egypt’s World No.8 Youssef Soliman in the next round. Soliman, who is now coached by four-time World Champion Ali Farag, overcame Dimitri Steinmann 2-1.

England No.1 Marwan ElShorbagy also progressed to the last eight, with his 11-5, 10-12, 11-3 win over compatriot Adrian Waller seeing him through to play Malaysia’s Eain Yow Ng.

“Adrian is so tricky and I’ve always struggled to read him,” said ElShorbagy.

“Best of three is always tough, especially when you start the season with it. It’s a great venue and I had a good tournament last time. I played very well and I’m hoping to produce good squash later this week.”

The quarter-finals of the London Squash Classic presented by Bassim Haidar take place tomorrow (Friday September 5), with the action getting under way from 13:00 (GMT+1) at Alexandra Palace. All matches will be streamed live on SQUASHTV.

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Results – Men’s Second Round (Bottom Half): 2025 London Squash Classic presented by Bassim Haidar

[4] Marwan ElShorbagy (ENG) bt Adrian Waller (ENG) 2-1: 11-5, 10-12, 11-3 (35m)

[8] Eain Yow Ng (MAS) bt Abdulla Mohd Al-Tamimi (QAT) 2-1: 8-11, 12-10, 11-9 (43m)

[6] Youssef Soliman (EGY) bt Dimitri Steinmann (SUI) 2-1: 11-7, 8-11, 11-1 (53m)

[2] Paul Coll (NZL) bt Mohamed Abouelghar (EGY) 2-1: 11-6, 10-12, 13-11 (52m)

Draw – Men’s Quarter-Finals Round: To Be Played September 5th

[1] Diego Elias (PER) v [7] Youssef Ibrahim (EGY)

[5] Mohamed ElShorbagy (ENG) v [3] Joel Makin (WAL)

[4] Marwan ElShorbagy (ENG) v [8] Eain Yow Ng (MAS)

[6] Youssef Soliman (EGY) v [2] Paul Coll (NZL)

Results – Women’s Second Round (Bottom Half): 2025 London Squash Classic presented by Bassim Haidar

Jasmine Hutton (ENG) bt [4] Tinne Gilis (BEL) 2-1: 6-11, 11-7, 11-5 (35m)

[5] Sivasangari Subramaniam (MAS) bt Tomato Ho (HKG) 2-0: 11-7, 12-10 (23m)

Georgia Adderley (SCO) bt [6] Georgina Kennedy (ENG) 2-1: 6-11, 11-8, 11-7 (34m)

[2] Amina Orfi (EGY) bt Sabrina Sobhy (USA) 2-0: 11-3, 11-7 (23m)

Draw – Women’s Quarter-Finals Round: To Be Played September 5th

[1] Olivia Weaver (USA) v [8] Nele Gilis (BEL)

Tesni Murphy (WAL) v [3] Satomi Watanabe (JPN)

Jasmine Hutton (ENG) v [5] Sivasangari Subramaniam (MAS)

Georgia Adderley (SCO) v [2] Amina Orfi (EGY)