Joey Barrington bt Mohamed El Shorbagy
      11/6, 7/11, 11/6, 11/6

Joey beats his training partner
Marwan El Shorbagy reports from Street…

This was the second exhibition match in the Victoria Club, the first was in February between Joey and Alister Walker, but this time the world junior champion Mohamed El Shorbagy was to face his training partner Joey - they both train everyday in Millfield School - in their second exhibition match in two weeks.

Joey was playing very well today, but Mohamed was fasting during the match because of Ramadan, so he was mentally tired but he was playing well.

In the first game Joey led in all of the game, and Shorbagy was making lots of mistakes but they played some good shots.

Second game Shorbagy got to the match and started to play more basic and keeping the pressure on Joey, who made lots of unforced errors.

Third game was up and down, Joey had the lead 6/3 then Shorbagy came back to 6/6, Shorbagy didn't like some decisions from the referee, and then Joey took the game from 6/6 to 11/6.

Fourth was quite tough, they were playing very good squash, it was very interesting to watch, they were playing long rallies, Joey had a good tactics, and Shorbagy was talking a lot to the referee.

But it was Joey again to win the second exhibition match in Victoria in his home town in Somerset.

Joey and Mohamed are preparing them self for the season especially, the Saudi qualification which will be in Millfield School

And of course Kev Mattock the organizer of the match did a great job.

 

Mohamed played very well today and he was fasting during the match coz of Ramadan, I am very happy to play very well today, maybe I was a bit tired from the training but it was ok.

And I would like to thank Kev for the match.

We both played well, I enjoyed the match a lot and I enjoyed the crowd as well, Joey is my training partner.

I have been training with him for 2 years so we know each other very well, he helped me to come to England and to come to the schools and he always advise me on court and he did for me a lot so I would like to thank him very much for everything ... and thanks to Kev for the match.