I am really proud to be a part of these matches and I am looking forward to a lot more in the future together.” “As I always say, we always talk about his physicality, but his squash, his technical prowess and his technical ability, they are improving day by day, and they really are underrated. You know it will be played with fighting spirit, picking all the balls up, I don’t know where he gets them from. As he said, it is always enjoyable to be part of a match with Paul. “Both of us have struggled in the World Tour Finals in past years because of the best-of-three, but I think this week we showed we are improving. We are not the flashiest of players who go for attacking shots, but I think we both did pretty well this week to adapt,” Farag said. “I prefer the best-of-five for sure, it suits my game and I think Paul would agree with that. He now has three titles in the last three months, after wins at the PSA World Championships 2020-2021, and the CIB Egyptian Open 2021. He then saved two game balls in the second, before Farag was able to regroup and win it 12-10 to level the match at one game apiece.įrom there, the World No.1 was able to keep Coll at arms reach, winning the next two games 11-8, 11-8, to secure his second victory in San Francisco, following his win in the city in 2018. He started strongly in the first game, and came through to take it after winning the last three points for an 11-9 scoreline. The pair had faced each other 16 times on the PSA World Tour, with Coll having won just two of those, but his most recent victory over the Egyptian came in the Allam British Open final, where he claimed the biggest title of his career. In the men’s final, World No.1 Ali Farag secured a second victory at the Oracle NetSuite Open after he defeated New Zealand’s Paul Coll in a four-game final, which will go down as one of the best matches of the year to date. We had one massive rally in the third and I definitely felt that after a week of short matches! I am very pleased to have won in three!” I felt a bit tense, but I tried to be as aggressive as possible. We were both vying for our first major title, and so the nerves came. “I was a little bit edgy, I tried not to think it was a final. I thank you all for being here in the cold and the rain and for supporting me all week. I’ll wrap it up soon, but to come back after winning it in 2015, and now to win it at a Gold level, it really means a lot, and to do it on home soil is massive. I have to really thank Charlie Johnson, who has been my on-site support system this week. Those close to me knew the state I was in last week so I have to thank my support system this past week. “I haven’t won a major title before and if I cry, it has been an emotional week! It has been a long year, I am a bit frazzled so for me to win is extra special. “There is literally steam coming off of my forehead. She rounded out the game with a lovely backhand drive down the line, to claim the biggest title of her career so far, and her second Oracle NetSuite Open, after her win in San Francisco in 2015. The third was a foregone conclusion in the end, as ‘Southpaw’ ran out into an 8-2 lead in quick-fire fashion. The US No.1 continued that form into the second, and although Hany threatened a run through the middle of the game, it was Sobhy that went two games to the good. Her line hitting was sublime from the off, and that helped her take the first game 11-7. It was Sobhy that came flying out of the traps, as the crowd buoyed her on. The pair had met five times previously on the PSA World Tour, with the American having won all of those contests, including their last meeting, which came just two weeks ago in the quarter-finals of the CIB Egyptian Open. The women’s final pitted home favourite Sobhy against World No.9 Hany, with the Egyptian having already taken out World No.2 Nouran Gohar and World No.8 Joelle King to reach the biggest final of her career to date. US No.1 Amanda Sobhy and Egypt’s World No.1 Ali Farag have won the Oracle Netsuite Open titles, claiming victories at the PSA World Tour Gold event after beating Egypt’s Salma Hany and New Zealand’s Paul Coll, respectively, at Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco.
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