Egyptian Mosaad the top draw at QSF No.1

Main Draw Released for QSF No.1


The main draw for this month’s QSF No.1 has been released with Egypt’s former World No.3 Omar Mosaad and Germany’s Raphael Kandra seeded to meet in the final of the PSA World Tour Bronze tournament, which will take place between November 10-14.

The tournament will be held at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex and will see a high quality draw battle it out for a share of the $51,000 prize purse.

Mosaad – who has never faced Kandra on the PSA Tour – is seeded on the same side of the draw as the likes of Spain’s former World No.5 Borja Golan, Australia’s Cameron Pilley and England’s Chris Simpson.

The Egyptian, along with the other top eight seeds, receives a bye into the second round and will face either Jamaica’s World No.81 Christopher Binnie or Welsh World No.50 Peter Creed for a place in the last eight.

Germany’s Kandra, meanwhile, is seeded to meet England’s former World No.9 Daryl Selby in the semi-finals but will first have to navigate through a draw that also contains the likes of home favourite Qatar’s World No.23 Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi and Scotland’s World No.32 Greg Lobban.

Home interest comes in the form of Al Tamimi, who will face either Spain’s Iker Pajares Bernabeu or France’s Auguste Dussourd for a place in the quarter-finals. Wildcards Rashid Al-Harib and Hamad Al-Amri face England’s World No.53 Joshua Masters and Egypt’s World No.52 Mohamed Reda in the opening round.

More information on the tournament can be found at www.qatarsquash.org

Main Draw – 2018 QSF No.1
[1] Omar Mosaad (EGY) [Bye]
Christopher Binnie (JAM) v [9/16] Peter Creed (WAL)
[9/16] Joshua Masters (ENG) v [WC] Rashid Al-Harib (QAT)
[6] Borja Golan (ESP) [Bye]
[8] Chris Simpson (ENG) [Bye]
Bernat Jaume (ESP) v [9/16] Eain Yow Ng (MAS)
[9/16] George Parker (ENG) v Tayyab Aslam (PAK)
[4] Cameron Pilley (AUS) [Bye]
[3] Daryl Selby (ENG) [Bye]
Ivan Yuen (MAS) v [9/16] Olli Tuominen (FIN)
[9/16] Iker Pajares Bernabeu (ESP) v Auguste Dussourd (FRA)
[5] Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi (QAT) [Bye]
[7] Greg Lobban (SCO) [Bye]
Chris Hanson (USA) v [9/16] Richie Fallows (ENG)
[9/16] Mohamed Reda (EGY) v [WC] Hamad Al-Amri (QAT)
[2] Raphael Kandra (GER) [Bye]

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