PROSQUASH
Vol 14 No. 1 Issue No. 53 January 2010
Chief Patron: Harshvardhan Patil (Minister, Govt of Maharashtra) // Founder Director: Mahendra Agarwal // Directors : Narendra Gour (I.R.S.) Navneet Soni (I.R.S.) // Executive Directors: Anil Diggikar (I.A.S), Bharat Bhushan (I.R.S)// Honored Patrons: Vivek Nair (VC & M.D.The Leela), Sajjan Jindal (Chairman & M.D.  JSW Steel Ltd), Eric  Dastur (Chairman, K.M. Dastur Reinsurance Brokers Pvt. Ltd.) // President: Ashish Gupta // Vice President: Noreena // Secretary General: Sanjay Goyal // Joint Secretary: Vicky Kalludi // Treasurer: Ashok Nagpal // Executive Committee Mem.: Saifee Jani, Rakesh Lakhanpal, Madhukar Musle, Organising Secretary: Karan Mehra, Ajit Singh, Imroze Pathan, Karanjeet Singh // Advisor: Pradeep K. Vijayakar // Chief Executive: Vidhya Rao // Technical Director: Amitoj Inder Singh // Chief Co-ordinator: Riaz Mohammed
      


Ramy Ashour (EGY) Winner and Nick Matthew (ENG) Runners Up showing off their trophies.

                      RAMY MASTERS MATTHEW IN MUMBAI    (10/12/2009)
Egypt’s Ramy Ashour has won many admirers with his courageous, inventive and remarkable stroke-play. He boosted his chances of becoming world No.1 in January when he beat Englishman Nick Matthew 11-6, 9-11, 11-9, 11-9 in the finals of $152,500 Punj Lloyd PSA Masters title at the Bombay Gymkhana in Mumbai. 

Fourth seed Matthew is enjoying the form of his life and arrived in the final of the penultimate PSA Super Series event of the year without dropping a game.  Meanwhile Ashour, still smarting from his straight games loss in last month's World Open final in Kuwait, had avenged that defeat by beating fellow countryman Amr Shabana in the semi-finals - and was ready to tip the scales in his pre-final three-all head-to-head count against the Englishman.    

The 22-year-old from Cairo led from the outset in the opening skirmishes soon moved a game up.  But it was Yorkshireman Matthew who was in the ascendancy throughout the second game and levelled the score after 41 minutes.    

It was neck and neck throughout third – with Matthew mostly in the lead.  But, a point away from game ball at 9-7, Matthew saw the third seed romp away with four points in a row to reclaim the advantage. 



Ashour maintained the momentum to go 3-0 ahead in the fourth – but Matthew led twice thereafter at 5-3 and 7-5.The Englishman went on to save two match balls from 7-10 down – but Ashour converted his third attempt to record his 11-6, 9-11, 11-9, 11-9 title-winning triumph after 79 minutes. The win marks Ashour's first Super Series success of the year, but the 13th PSA Tour title of his career - of which, remarkably, eight are Super Series! 

"I’ve got great respect for Nick - he played so well tonight, he’s really improving his attacking game, and he mixed up his pace really well," Ashour said afterwards.  "I think Nick and I really play well together, we seem to have a complementary game, and to keep pushing each other up. "This is my first win of the year - I’m so happy and I hope I’ll just keep on playing like that in Saudi, and after that.  Win or lose, I just want to play well." Matthew, who reached

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