New Zealand favourite Martin Knight led all four seeds safely through to the quarter-finals of the Champion Fiberglass Open, the inaugural PSA World Tour Challenger 10 squash event at Downtown Club at the Met in Houston, Texas, USA.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old from Auckland despatched Cayman Islands qualifier Cameron Stafford 11-5, 11-7, 11-8 and will now face England’s Declan James for a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
But second seed Andrew Wagih Shoukry had a much tougher ride. The 23-year-old Egyptian, ranked 59 in the world, was taken the full distance by Greg Lobban before overcoming the Scot ranked 27 places lower 8-11, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6, 11-8.<\/p>\n
Mexican twins Arturo Salazar and Cesar Salazar both survived four-game encounters. Fourth seed Arturo beat Canadian qualifier Thomas Brinkman while Cesar, the No3 seed, had to fight back from a game down to see off Pakistani Muhammad Saqib Yousaf 5-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-4.\n<\/p>\n
1st round:<\/strong><\/p>\n [1] Martin Knight (NZL) bt [Q] Cameron Stafford (CAY) 11-5, 11-7, 11-8 (26m)<\/p>\n Declan James (ENG) bt Fred Reid (CAN) 11-5, 11-4, 11-7 (22m)<\/p>\n Clinton Leeuw (RSA) bt [Q] Syed Hamzah Shah Bukhari (PAK) 11-9, 12-10, 11-6 (40m)<\/p>\n [4] Arturo Salazar (MEX) bt [Q] Thomas Brinkman (CAN) 11-9, 8-11, 11-7, 12-10 (39m)<\/p>\n [3] Cesar Salazar (MEX) bt Muhammad Saqib Yousaf (PAK) 5-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-4 (39m)<\/p>\n Farhan Zaman (PAK) bt [Q] Matthew Serediak (CAN) 8-11, 11-6, 11-7, 11-6 (34m)<\/p>\n Raphael Kandra (GER) bt [WC] Aqib Hanif (PAK) 11-3, 10-12, 11-9, 11-7 (40m)<\/p>\n [2] Andrew Wagih Shoukry (EGY) bt Greg Lobban (SCO) 8-11, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6, 11-8 (59m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Zealand favourite Martin Knight led all four seeds safely through to the quarter-finals of the Champion Fiberglass Open, the inaugural PSA World Tour Challenger 10 squash event at Downtown Club at the Met in Houston, Texas, USA.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old from Auckland despatched Cayman Islands qualifier Cameron Stafford 11-5, 11-7, 11-8 and will now face England’s Declan James for a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n But second seed Andrew Wagih Shoukry had a much tougher ride. The 23-year-old Egyptian, ranked 59 in the world, was taken the full distance by Greg Lobban before overcoming the Scot ranked 27 places lower 8-11, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6, 11-8.<\/p>\n Mexican twins Arturo Salazar and Cesar Salazar both survived four-game encounters. Fourth seed Arturo beat Canadian qualifier Thomas Brinkman while Cesar, the No3 seed, had to fight back from a game down to see off Pakistani Muhammad Saqib Yousaf 5-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-others"],"yoast_head":"\n
RESULTS: PSA Challenger 10 Champion Fiberglass Open, Houston, Texas, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n