[2] Hania El Hammamy (Egy) 3-1 [4] Siva Subramaniam (Mas) 11-6, 10-11, 11-8, 11-8 (54m)
[4] Diego Elias (Per) 3-1 [2] Paul Coll (Nzl) 7-11, 11-4, 11-6, 11-9 (82m)
Hania El Hammamy and Diego Elias are the 2025.26 PSA Squash Tour Finals Champions after four game victories over Siva Subramaniam in Paris. For El Hammamy it’s her second Tour Finals title while Elias becomes the first South American winner.
Elias becomes first South American Tour Finals Champion
World No.3 Diego Elias has become the first South American winner of the PSA Squash Tour Finals presented by TWG Global after he came from behind to beat World No.2 Paul Coll at Centquatre-Paris tonight.
Both players had managed runner-up finishes at this tournament previously, but Elias went one better this time around as he triumphed 7-11, 11-4, 11-6, 11-9 in the final World Event of the PSA Squash Tour season.
Elias booked his spot in the final without playing his semi-final match following the withdrawal of World No.1 Mostafa Asal due to injury, and those fresher legs looked to help him as he settled quicker and took a rapid 6-2 lead.
Coll, the British Open champion, was able to tighten things up and chased the ball down to put Elias under pressure, eventually turning the tables to take the opening game.
Elias came out with renewed focus though in the second, picking Coll off at the front of the court to draw level, before the third game soon went the way of the Peruvian too.
Coll was more aggressive in the fourth as he stepped up the court and took five of the first six points on offer. But too many loose shots came from the Kiwi’s racket as Elias came back into it, with Coll being penalised with a number of strokes against him.
Elias moved to match ball before a ferocious rally ended in yet another stroke against Coll to put Elias’s hands on the trophy.
The win marks the 23rd PSA Squash Tour title of Elias’s career, while it’s his second title of the 2025-26 campaign.
“This is my first one here at this tournament, so I’m very happy to have another title,” said Elias.
“Paul is one of the most physical players and one of the best players in the last 10 years. We used to train together and have played a lot of finals together, we’re really close friends. To share the court again in a final is very special.
“I was trying to not rush it, I knew the ball was bouncy and there were a lot of loose shots, so I had to attack from there and not try and find winners out of nowhere. To finish a match like this was a really tough, there was a lot of relief.
“We both want to kill each other, we’re both at the top of the sport. But I think we both enjoy every match we play against each other.”
El Hammamy claims a second Tour Finals title
World No.1 Hania El Hammamy has won the PSA Squash Tour Finals presented by TWG Global for the second time after overcoming Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam in a highly-entertaining clash at Centquatre-Paris tonight.
El Hammamy, who also won this tournament in 2020, battled to an 11-6, 10-11, 11-8, 11-8 victory to lift the 22nd PSA Squash Tour title of her career and her seventh of the season.
It was a dream start for the 25-year-old from Egypt, who was incredibly clinical in the opening game, but Sivasangari found her range in the second as she drew level courtesy of winning the sudden death tie-break.
The quality of squash on show was incredibly high and the third game was the most entertaining of the lot as El Hammamy pulled off some acrobatic dives to keep herself in the rallies amidst severe pressure by Sivasangari.
A few errors from the Malaysian handed the momentum to El Hammamy, who made no mistake in restoring her advantage.
El Hammamy came racing out of the traps in the fourth to take an 8-3 lead, and she quelled a late fightback from her opponent to seal the 15th major trophy of her career.
“When I won in 2020, it was during COVID and I beat Nour El Tayeb from 2-0 down, it was such a big win for me,” said El Hammamy.
“I was the underdog then and now I’m being challenged for the World No.1 spot, so it’s a different story. I’m really proud.
“Now I’m going to start my off season and not think about squash at all, that’s what I need. I’ll be going to the North Coast, Europe, having a lot of food and going to a lot of parties. I’ll have a month off, I need that and when I had a big off season last summer it helped me get off to a great start.
“I was really hungry and I had a great pre-season training session, so I’ll follow those same tactics again.
“I really wanted to win this event for Laura [Massaro] and all of my team. Karim Darwish back home too has done a great job with me, and I think I’ve disappointed my team a bit in the last month. They’ve all been pushing me and I owed them one last push, I’m really glad I managed to do that.”
Finals Previews
Sivasangari Subramaniam v Hania El Hammamy
El Hammamy has already held onto her position at World No.1 this week after Egyptian contender Amina Orfi failed to reach the final. The World No.1 will be looking to add to her trophy collection with a win here today. El Hammamy has reached four Squash Tour Finals finals, winning in 2020.
Sivasangari shocked the Parisian crowd yesterday with a stunning win over an on-form Orfi. The Egyptian came into the tournament off the back of back-to-back World Championship & British Open titles, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the Malaysian who won out at 10-10 in the fourth in a dramatic sudden death!
The last time that the pair met was in the quarter-final of the World Championships this season, where El Hammamy came through with a victory in five, but what will happen today in France…
Diego Elias v Paul Coll
Elias, is looking to become the first South American winner of the tournament this week in Paris. He will be feeling fresh after a withdrawal from Mostafa Asal gave him a walkover into the final.
He comes up against World No.2 Coll, who has enjoyed a prolific season in terms of silverware, with six titles to his name, including the recent British Open. The Kiwi No.1 will be hoping to close out the season by winning his first-ever PSA Squash Tour Finals title.
The pair have a close-fought 10-8 head-to-head record on the side of Elias, but it could go either way tonight in Paris…
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