London Squash Classic 2025: Preview

The first Gold event of the new PSA Squash Tour season gets underway tomorrow as the London Squash Classic presented by Bassim Haidar returns to the PSA calendar with star studded line-ups confirmed.

Round one will take place from Coolhurst Lawn Tennis and Squash Club with two courts in operation. Play will move to the famous Alexandra Palace from round two onwards as the top eight seeds enter the draws. All the action from both venues will be available to watch live on SQUASHTV.

Play starts at 14:00 (GMT+1) on courts 1 and 4 at Coolhurst with Noor Aboulmakarim facing recent British Nationals winner Tesni Murphy and Grace Gear taking on Hana Moataz. 13 British players are in action on the opening day including Jonah Bryant and Jasmine Hutton, who will be aiming to get their seasons started with positive performances.

World No.2 Diego Elias’ last visit to the UK was a very successful one as he lifted his first British Open title, beating Mostafa Asal in the final. The Peruvian will be looking to reclaim the World No.1 spot as soon as possible this season and would love to start the season with a win to put pressure on current World No.1 Asal. He’s set to face either Baptiste Masotti or Raphael Kandra in round two before potentially coming up against Youssef Ibrahim in the quarter finals.

Reigning champion Paul Coll returns to London as he looks to claim a seventh title in England’s capital. Coll overcame Joel Makin and Mostafa Asal in the inaugural 2024 event and will be determined to regain his title. The New Zealand No.1 is set to play either Mohamed Abouelghar or Declan James in round two.

USA’s Olivia Weaver tops the women’s draw as she looks to claim a third Gold event title in 12 months. Weaver enjoyed her best season to date on the PSA Squash Tour last season and will now be setting her sights on the World No.3 spot and a win this week will certainly heap the pressure onto Hania El Hammamy.

As much as Weaver is eyeing El Hammamy’s spot, World No.5 Amina Orfi is hot on the heels of Weaver. The Egyptian claimed yet another World Junior Title over the summer and will be determined to be back in PSA action. With another season full of intense matches under the belt of the 18-year-old, more scalps could be on the horizon for Orfi this season and maybe a place in the top four, maybe three. Can she get off to the perfect start in London this week?

Four other top 10 players feature in the women’s draw, including defending champion Sivasangari Subramaniam, who will have fond memories of the event from her 2024 heroics, where she beat Nour ElSherbini, Nele Gilis and Hania El Hammamy to claim her biggest career win. Tinne Gilis, Satomi Watanabe and Georgina Kennedy are the other top 10 players, all of which are looking to start the season strongly.

Tickets are available to purchase here.

A best-of-three games scoring format will be used in every round up to and including the quarter-finals, before reverting to traditional best-of-five scoring for the semi-finals and title deciders.

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