China Open 2016
30 Aug - 04 Sep, Shanghai, $100k

04-Sep, Finals:  

[1] Laura Massaro (Eng) 3-0 [3] Nouran Gohar (Egy) 
                   11/9, 11/5, 11/3 (34m)

[1] Mohamed Elshorbagy (Egy) 3-0 [2] Gregory Gaultier (Fra)
                   11/5, 11/3, 11/3 (33m)

Top seeds power to Shanghai titles

Top seed Laura Massaro captured her first China Open title with a dominant display over in-form Nouran Gohar in the women's final.

Immediately on the offensive, Massaro stormed into an 8-3 lead in the first game, and although Gohar, who had beaten the Englishwoman on the way to collecting the Hong Kong Open, title recovered to 8-all, Massaro finished the game strongly to take the lead 11-9.

Massaro was in control for the rest of the match, negating Gohar's power game to great effect as she pulled clear from 4-5 to take the second 11-5 and dominated the third 11-3 for a comprehensive victory.

“All credit to Laura," said Gohar. "She played amazingly today.”

“We’ve played each other a lot recently," said Massaro, "and we both always leave everything on court. Nouran’s an amazing player for her age, I’ll keep on taking the wins while I still can!”

The men's final also finished in straight games as Mohamed Elshorbagy beat defending champion Gregory Gaultier in a touch over half an hour.

The Egyptian world #1 pulled away from 4-all in the first, keeping the pace high and maintaining contstant pressure on the Frenchman, taking the lead 11-5.

Shorbagy was dominant in the next two games, again piling on the pressure in the opening phases, Gaultier wilting under the onslaught and tailing off, all but giving up as Shorbagy raced through the latter part of both games in double quick time.

“Not the best of matches for me," admitted Gaultier. "Mohamed was way too good for me today, but that’s the way it goes sometimes!”

Elshorbagy was delighted with the win: “I’m really happy to win here today, especially as I lost in the first round here last year!

“Some days Greg’s too good but today it way my turn. It’s early in the season and I’m sure we’ll have some more great battles laster in the season.”

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Qualifying:

31-Aug, Finals:
Zahed Mohamed (Egy) 3-1 Max Lee (Hkg)                  10/12, 11/6, 11/9, 11/7 (67m)
Diego Elias (Per) 3-0 Leo Au (Hkg)                                      11/7, 11/7, 11/6 (44m)
Cesar Salazar (Mex) 3-2 Nafiizwan Adnan (Mas) 11/13, 12/10, 8/11, 11/9, 11/7 (79m)
Mohamed Abouelghar (Egy) 3-2 Paul Coll (Nzl)  9/11, 11/13, 12/10, 11/7, 11/9 (67m)

30-Aug, Round One:
Max Lee (Hkg) 3-0 Yang Tianxia (Chn)                                11/2, 11/5, 11/5 (17m)
Zahed Mohamed (Egy) 3-2 Alfredo Avila (Mex)  11/6, 11/5, 6/11, 11/13, 11/8 (72m)
Diego Elias (Per) 3-2 Greg Lobban (Sco)           12/10, 11/5, 3/11, 7/11, 11/1 (65m)
Leo Au (Hkg) 3-0 Alan Clyne (Sco)                                     11/8, 11/6, 11/5 (54m)
Cesar Salazar (Mex) 3-0 Valentino Bong (Mas)                    11/6, 11/0, 11/4 (22m)
Nafiizwan Adnan (Mas) 3-2 Ivan Yuen (Mas)     6/11, 12/10, 11/5, 8/11, 11/3 (74m)
Paul Coll (Nzl) 3-0 James Huang (Tpe)                               11/2, 11/3, 11/5 (36m)
Mohamed Abouelghar (Egy) 3-0 Graham Miao (Hkg)           11/1, 11/6, 11/3 (19m)

Qualifying:

31-Aug, Finals:
Dipika Pallikal Karthik (Ind) 3-1 Olivia Blatchford (Usa)  11/4, 2/11, 11/0, 11/4 (31m)
Heba El Torky (Egy) 3-0 Tesni Evans (Wal)                          11/6, 11/6, 11/6 (34m)
Salma Hany Ibrahim (Egy) 3-1 Nele Gilis (Bel)            11/5, 11/13, 11/7, 11/5 (41m)
Joey Chan (Hkg) 3-1 Low Wee Wern (Mas)                   11/8, 11/5, 9/11, 11/8 (47m)

30-Aug, Round One:
Dipika Pallikal Karthik (Ind) 3-0 Peng Zhenni (Chn)            11/1,11/2, 11/2 (14m)
Olivia Blatchford (Usa) 3-0 He Xinru (Chn)                       11/2, 11/1, 11/0 (14m)
Tesni Evans (Wal) 3-0 Duan Siyu (Chn)                           11/4, 11/1, 11/3 (15m)
Heba El Torky (Egy) 3-0 Gu Jinyue (Chn)                         11/8, 11/8, 11/6 (23m)
Salma Hany Ibrahim (Egy) 3-1 Line Hansen (Den)     11/5, 6/11, 11/5, 11/6 (35m)
Nele Gilis (Bel) 3-2 Nicolette Fernandes (Guy)  11/5, 11/8, 11/13, 8/11, 11/6 (81m)
Low Wee Wern (Mas) 3-2 Fiona Moverley (Eng)  11/13, 11/7, 6/11, 11/5, 11/8, 82m)
Joey Chan (Hkg) 3-0 Liu Tsz-Ling (Hkg)                             11/3, 11/4, 11/5 (26m)

03-Sep, Semis:
Top seeds through to finals

Semi-finals day of the China Open at the Peninsula Hotel saw the men's top seeds through to the final as Mohamed Elshorbagy and Gregory Gaultier both win in straight games. 

Top seed Elshorbagy beat Spain's Borja Golan in straight games while defending champion Gaultier was on the way to the same when Karim Abdel Gawad retired injured midway through the third.

The women's final will be a repeat of last week's quarter-final in Hong Kong between top seed Laura Massaro, who edged past Joelle King in four tough games, while HK champion Nouran Gohar maintained her impressive run of form as she beat second-seeded compatriot Raneem El Welily in four games.

02-Sep, Quarters:
Top seeds assert in quarters

Quarter-finals in Shanghai started on the traditional courts with a number of lengthy matches which saw yesterday's upset heroes all fall.

In the men's draw Borja Golan ended Cameron Pilley's run in a 69-minute four game battle, while Karim Abdel Gawad, having let a two game lead slip against Saurav Ghosal, squeezed through 11/9 in the fifth after 76 minutes.

On the glass court top seeds Mohamed Elshorbagy and Gregory Gaultier progressed in straight games to set up semi-finals against Golan and Gawad.

Salma Hany, the only non-seed in the women's last eight, took the first game against Hong Kong champion and third seed Nouran Gohar before losing out in four games after just under an hour's play. It took fourth seed Joelle King 80 minutes to hold off the challenge of Sarah-Jane Perry.

Gohar now faces second seed Raneem El Welily, who came from a game down to beat Alison Waters, while King is up against top seed Laura Massaro, who beat Joshna Chinappa in the shortest match of the day.

01-Sep, Round One:
Hany, Pilley and Ghosal gatecrash the quarters

Not too much drama in the first round of the women's event as seven of the seeds won through to the quarter-finals, joined by Egyptian qualifier Salma Hany Ibrahim who beat sixth-seeded Annie Au in straight games.

Two big upsets in the men's draw, as Cameron Pilley continued his impressive from from Hong Kong, taking out third seed Omar Mosaad in straigth games, while India's Saurav Ghosal came from 2-1 down to inflict a second successive first round defeat on Miguel Rodriguez, the fourth-seeded Colombian. 

31-Aug, Qualifying Finals:
Egyptians advance to main draw in Shanghai

Qualifying finals in Shanghai saw a quartet of Egyptians - two men, two women -add the their already heavy main draw presence.

In the women's matches Heba El Torky scored an impressive three-nil win over Tesni Evans while Salma Hany Ibrahim defeated Nele Gilis in four games. Heba now faces Joshna Chinappa while Salma meets Annie Au.

On the men's side Zahed Mohamed came from a gamedown to deny Hong Kong semi-finalist Max Lee while Mohamed Abouelghar recovered from one-two down against Paul Coll. Mohamed's next task is against Mathieu Castagnet while Abouelghar faces an all-Egyptian match against HK finalist Karim Abdel Gawad.

Other qualifiers were Diego Elias, Cesar Salazar, Dipika Pallikal and Joey Chan.
 

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