The draws for the PSA Squash Tour Finals presented by TWG Global have been officially confirmed with World Champions Mostafa Asal and Amina Orfi topping the draws for the season-ending event.
Staged at the Centquatre-Paris, the PSA Squash Tour Finals presented by TWG Global will be held in France for the first time in the season-ending tournament’s storied history, and the first time in Europe since 2013. The top eight players from the Race to the Finals presented by TWG Global standings will square off for the last titles of the 2025/26 season.
Points for the Race to the Finals presented by TWG Global were on offer at all World Events throughout the campaign, while winning a prestigious Diamond-level event or the PSA World Championships secured automatic qualification.
World No.1 Asal – winner of this event in 2021, 2022 and 2023 – is attempting to become just the second man after the great Jansher Khan in 1998 to win the PSA Squash Tour Finals on four occasions. The Egyptian has again been named in the same half of the draw as fierce rival Diego Elias after recently edging out the World No.3 in an epic 115-minute showdown at the British Open. Asal will play England’s Marwan Elshorbagy in his opening match after Elshorbagy received a call up due to Youssef Ibrahim not being able to participate through injury.
Peru’s Elias, meanwhile, will look to become the first South American winner of the tournament. The 2024 World Champion hasn’t enjoyed the most favourable record at the PSA Squash Tour Finals, with only one final reached from six appearances, and this time around will kick off his campaign for silverware against Victor Crouin. Crouin got the better of Elias in the Texas Open final and the Grasshopper Cup semi-final.
The bottom half of the draw will see British Open champion Paul Coll, World No.4 Karim Gawad, World Junior Champion Mohamad Zakaria and defending champion Joel Makin. The in-form Coll will be looking to keep his winning streak going as he opens his account against Joel Makin. This will be Coll’s eight time in the Tour Finals. The New Zealander is yet to lift the title but will be heading into this year as confident as ever after his succesful week in Birmingham.
The final opening game in the men’s event will see 2019 champion Karim Gawad take on World Junior Champion Mohamad Zakaria. The pair have met five times in their careers. Gawad won the first three encounters but Zakaria has won the last two in the Karachi Open semi-final and the El Gouna International quarter final. Zakaria is the only debutant in the men’s event this year and will be determined to make his presence felt.
In the women’s event, teenage sensation Amina Orfi arrives on the back of a pair of historic title wins at the PSA Championships and British Open – events in which she became the youngest-ever female champion in both events’ histories.
Top seed Orfi will have the chance to usurp Hania El Hammamy at the top of the women’s PSA World Rankings and become the youngest-ever female World World No.1. She needs to better the result of the current World No.1 El Hammamy and the pair are set to meet in the final.
Debutant Orfi will be up against England’s Georgina Kennedy in the opening round. Kennedy was a semi-finalist last season but is yet to beat Orfi in three previous meetings. The last of which came in the final of the Canadian Women’s Open back in October.
No.4 seed Olivia Weaver sits in the same half as Orfi. The USA No.1 will be taking on No.5 seed Sivasangari Subramaniam in the first round. Weaver was unable to play in the British Open quarter finals due to injury but is hoping to be fit enough to feature in the season-ending event. Subramaniam, who lost out in the pool stages in her Tour Finals debut last season, will be looking to take advantage of Weaver potentially not being at 100% to reach her first semi-final of the tournament.
The bottom half of the draw will see World No.1 and World No.3 Hania El Hammamy and Nour ElSherbini take on Fayrouz Aboelkheir and Satomi Watanabe, respectively. El Hammamy won the event on her debut in 2020 but hasn’t lifted the trophy since then. She’ll be determined to end the season on a high to both double her Tour finals title tally and also maintain her World No.1 ranking. Her and Aboelkheir met as recently as the British Open, with El Hammamy coming through in five games.
Two-time champion Nour ElSherbini will be competing in her 11th Tour Finals next week, looking to become the second most decorated woman in the event’s history, behind Nouran Gohar. She faces Japan’s Satomi Watanabe in what is sure to be a competitive clash. Watanabe made the Tour finals for the first time last season and will be hopeful of backing up her semi-final finish from 2025.
A record amount of $710,000 in total player compensation is up for grabs, split equally across both draws. The winners of each draw will take home $108,062.50 apiece.
The quarter-finals stage of the event will be split across two days, with four matches a day taking place between June 17-19, with play getting underway from 17:30 (GMT+2). The semi-finals will be held at 17:30 on Friday, June 19.
The finals will begin at 20:30 on Saturday, June 21st.
All matches will be held at Centquatre-Paris and be streamed live on SQUASHTV. The semi-finals and finals will also be shown live by PSA’s broadcast partners.
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Women’s Draw:
[1] Amina Orfi (EGY) v [8] Georgina Kennedy (ENG)[5] Sivasangari Subramaniam (MAS) v [4] Olivia Weaver (USA)
[3] Nour ElSherbini (EGY) v [6] Satomi Watanabe (JPN) [7] Fayrouz Aboelkheir (EGY) v [2] Hania El Hammamy (EGY)
