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 The final of the 2011 PSA Tournament of Champions in New York was won by the Ramy Ashour in a 52 minute master class at New York’s Grand Central Station. Ramy took the match to Nick Matthew in the 1st game, with an 11-3 demolishing, but the World No.1 fought back in the 2nd to level things up 1-1.

However it was the young Egyptian who was able to keep his lead in the 3rd & 4th games and hold the Englishman at arms length as he pressed home his advantage 11-9 11-7.

A jubilant Ashor said “The really good thing about tonight is that I was moving well and was in touch with my body.” (a reference to his injury prone season). And to top things off for Ramy his mum was there (for the first time in 5 years) to see him lift the title.

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 The 2010 P.S.A. World Open winner is Nick Matthew.

In the historic all English final Nick won 3-1, against James Wilstrop, in 74mins to gain the 2010 title and the biggest pay-day of the year with $45.6K (and a Volkswagen car) in Sunset Beach, Saudi Arabia.

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Nick Matthews beat Karim Darwish to win the final of the $150K Sky Open in Cairo; and the points he gained from winning this tournament also meant that Nick made is to his first ever PSA World No.1 ranking in and his 2nd Super Series win in a row with the 3-1 victory over Karim in just over an hours squash.

Nick is the first Brit since 2004 to take the PSA top spot and an unbeaten 28 match run has got him to this highlight of his career. It’s a fabulous effort to break the domination of the Egyptians (and the French) and Nick paid tribute to his opponent by saying “I was inspired tonight by what Karim did in Saudi and that drove me to play as if my life was on it” which was a reference to when Karim Darwish got to World Number one spot before reaching the finals of the PSA Saudi International Tournament, but then went on to win it anyway.

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Harrow’s Alan Clyne won this weekends “West of Ireland Open” in Galway and he didn’t drop a game in the whole tournament!

Alan who was seeded No.1 took the $8K PSA final 3-0 against Piedro Schweertman 11-4  11-8  11-5 and in-so-doing will have done his World Ranking absolutely no harm. to date. To see the full results please click here. Congratulations Alan and good luck in cracking the top 50.

Harrow’s Stuart Crawford was also in action in this event, but unfortunately lost to Spain’s Alejandro Garbi in a tough 1st round match.