2018 Allam British Open champion Miguel
Angel Rodriguez and the man he beat in the final of that tournament -
Egypt’s World No.1 Mohamed ElShorbagy - are set to clash once again
after they
were drawn together in Group A of the men’s event for the season-ending
ATCO PSA Dubai World Series Finals, which takes place at Emirates Golf
Club between June 5-9.
The lucrative tournament - which offers an
equal prize purse of $320,000 across the men’s and women’s events -
brings together the top men and women on the PSA World Series Standings,
with
players earning qualification points at each World Series event
contested during the 2017/18 season, to face-off against each other in a
round-robin best-of-three game series between June 5-7 for a place in the knockout semi-finals and beyond - with only two
players progressing from each group of four.
Rodriguez’s heroics at last week’s British
Open saw him oust three-time World Champion Nick Matthew to earn his
place in Dubai for a second time in three years,
while he also became the first
South American player ever to win a World Series title after overcoming
defending World Series Finals champion ElShorbagy in a thrilling
102-minute battle.
The duo have been drawn against three-time
World Series Finals champion Gregory Gaultier and Mohamed’s younger
brother Marwan, who claimed a maiden World Series crown last month at
the El Gouna
International, in what promises to be a compelling group.
World No.2 Ali Farag heads up Group B in
the men’s event and is joined by Tournament of Champions winner Simon
Rösner, World No.5 Tarek Momen and 2016 World Champion Karim Abdel
Gawad.
The five-day event brings together the
cream of squash talent and there promises to be plenty of drama in the
women’s event too, with last year’s runner-up Nour El Sherbini, the
current World
No.1, drawn together with World No.3 Nour El Tayeb - who alongside
husband Ali Farag won the U.S. Open in October - Windy City Open
runner-up Joelle King and World No.5 Nouran Gohar in Group A.
Defending champion Laura Massaro is drawn
against reigning World Champion Raneem El Welily as she aims to claim a
third successive World Series Finals title, while World No.6 Camille
Serme
and World No.8 Sarah-Jane Perry make up the rest of Group B.
The Group stages will get underway on June 5th with Group B action - starting with Sarah-Jane Perry v Camille Serme and Simon Rösner facing Karim Abdel Gawad - beginning at 3:00pm local time,
with Group A action, including a repeat of the men’s British Open final between Rodriguez and ElShorbagy, taking to court from 8:00pm local time.
Group stage matches will take place at 3:00pm, 3:45pm, 4:30pm and 5:15pm (Group B) and 8:00pm, 8:45pm, 9:30pm and 10:15pm (Group A) between June 5-7 with the semi-finals due to take place from
8:00pm on June 8.
The finals will commence at 8:00pm local time on June 9.
Every match from the tournament will be
shown live on SQUASHTV (Rest of World) and Eurosport Player (Europe
only), while the semi-finals and finals will be broadcast live on
mainstream channels
across the globe, including BT Sport, beIN Sports, Fox Sports Australia
and Astro.
Tickets for the World Series Finals can be purchased here:
https://dubai.platinumlist.
2017/18 ATCO PSA Dubai World Series Finals – Group Draw
Men’s Group A
Mohamed ElShorbagy (EGY)
Marwan ElShorbagy (EGY)
Miguel Angel Rodriguez (COL)
Gregory Gaultier (FRA)
Men’s Group B
Ali Farag (EGY)
Simon Rösner (GER)
Tarek Momen (EGY)
Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY)
Women’s Group A
Nour El Sherbini (EGY)
Nour El Tayeb (EGY)
Joelle King (NZL)
Nouran Gohar (EGY
Women’s Group B
Raneem El Welily (EGY)
Laura Massaro (ENG)
Camille Serme (FRA)
Sarah-Jane Perry (ENG)
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