Ibrahim's mental strength amazes me. It might be subtle but Marwan is such a dirty player: (blocking, fishing, moving towards Youssef after a shot). It's understandable that Youssef was upset. The mental strength required to come back though, was out of world.

Man look at that fire burninggg inside ibrahim 😀... Like his passion

Asal vs Ibrahim could literally be close to like “Ali vs Foreman”.

Last call was a 100% stroke, wtf

Marwan is a disgrace for the sport. Players like him are the reason squash is not olympic. Makes the sport do ugly... Ibrahim, on the other hand, is a pure joy to watch. The new Amr Shabana. Pure class!

Squash needs more players with a spirit like Youssef 🔥 and less like Marwan

15:36 stroke all day long!

Tetchy! When Ibrahim is on top he relaxes into each shot and plays beautifully. He is going to get (even) better with experience 😀

Asal could learn a thing or two from Ibrahim, he's becoming one of my favorite players! I think Ibrahim's got this tournament in his bag, Paul will need to play Ibrahim more than ones to figure out his game and beat him, the skills Ibrahim possess will be a little much for Paul imo, but let's see, if Paul can keep the ball away from volley's and middle, he could break Ibrahim's focus! So excited for it!

Coll is a bit of a throwback to the days of Jansher and then Nicoll. I like it. Incredible rallying in an era when you can see the ball.

Waiting for so long......

0:36 joeys commentary 🤌🏽

Can't wait to watch Asal vs Marwan.

First of all, let me just say that the refereeing has left something to be desired during most of this tournament. That is putting it mildly. I watched both of these matches in full yesterday and it is laughable the amount of times that Joey, Paul, and/or Lee believe a video decision will go a certain way, and then it ends up going the other way. Ridiculous. You would like to think these guys have a clue, wouldn't you? Anyways, I have no doubt that this large "grey area" is the main reason holding back the sport from gaining more exposure/popularity (particularly its inclusion in the Olympics). This is something which needs a major clean up so as to bring a higher level of consistency into the sport. This now brings me to my second point, and that is I have to simply say that I am so tired of Marwan ElShorbagy's antics during a match. Doesn't matter which one he is playing. He is always the same character. Talent-wise, he has a very unique game style which I think can be quite effective, and I've seen it. But mentally, he is fragile in my view. Behavior-wise, he acts like a child. Like I said, I watched his match in full and his conduct was utterly atrocious. I turned to my son who was watching with me and I actually said to him that the sport of squash should be embarrassed by this behavior and outburst. I'm talking both verbally and his negative body language. For crying out loud, Billie Jean King was in the front row watching this display. What do you think she thought of this whole exhibition? There was absolutely no flow to that match whatsoever. Look... there are many guilty parties here --- the referee (for his lack of backbone, as he simply put up with all the verbal abuse for far too long) and Ibrahim (who had his share of outbursts too). But for me, Marwan does this sort of thing time and time and time again. It's really tiresome and, as a squash fan for many, many years, I find his behavior extremely embarrassing and inappropriate. Get a mental advisor/coach or anger management specialist ASAP, Marwan. It's a real shame, because this kind of look is not doing any good for the sport I love.

My God even a year later I love this, such a slap in the face for marwan 😅

I will pay to watch the full second match! What squash

Second match I like mentally strengh of Momen doing changes and being consistent towards Coll atacks and fisical recovery after every movement.

Seems like an angry Ibrahim is a lethal Ibrahim.

If Momen plays more patiently and fixes his unforced error rate, he would do much better, in my opinion. He's got tremendous speed and recovery, he's got deception in his hits, and he's got stamina. Coll is so consistent that he is doing great. I think Momen has the ability to do that too and even do greater.

Wow. Terrible, unreal no let to momen in the 5th when it was a stroke 😱

Marwan is THE most dessonest player ive ever watched PERIOD

Coll is best set-up

Ibrahim the El-Douchebagy slayer!!!! COME ON

Very glad Ibrahim showed no mercy in the end, always a pleasure to see the cheater lose badly!

Marwan giving up on the fourth game walking off after losing it 11-1, thinking I'll pull it back in the fifth, to lose that one 11-0, ouch.

Very like

lets goooo

Can someone explain me what Elshorbagy did wrong at 2:42? What should he have done to make it a correct play ? I have hard time to understand this kind of issue

Ibrahim, does he have a nickname yet? Maybe "Bringer of Justice" would be a suitable one! 😎 Seems as if he won at least 18 consecutive points? Respect!

2:29 Is that Billy Jean King in the front row??

I'm surprised to see people so sure that was a Stroke at 15:37. It looks like a Stroke from the perspective of backwall camera, but that foreshortens the length of the court. From the front wall replay, you can clearly see that Momen went the wrong direction (because Coll hit an accidental trickle boast, but the wrong direction nonetheless) and the ball bounces short with a lot of space between Coll and the ball. It wasn't intentional, but Momen created the interference by taking the wrong path instead of going to Coll's left. I probably would've said Let given Coll doesn't make much effort to clear once Momen goes the wrong way, but a No Let is understandable.

The man coll 👍

Moamen is very traditional systematic player. You can expect most of his hits. Great persistence though

Is Billie Jean King in the gallery?!

the calls from the ref were a bit dodgy. feel ibrahim got robbed a few times

What the hell is going on with this reffing. Genuinely awful, even grassroots squash refs aren’t making these god awful decisions. Completely altering the outcome of some matches and it happens far too often. There needs to be serious retraining of referees

good on youseff for showing marwan what for in the last 2 sets

Stroke all day long for momen?

What happend to Asal? He wasn't in the tournament

How is that last shot not a stroke?

Vs Ibrahim Elshorbagy 100% stepped into Ibrahims way on purpose. Similar thing vs Farag the other day.

how is that match ball not a stroke??? unfair to momen

Hope Ibrahim does Coll

Elshorbagy should be better than that being experienced of the two

Was that Billy Jean King in the front row? 👍

No let?? What?

Hard luck Mormen!!!you played loose in the fifth!!!

Marvin giving out about conduct. Cute

I was amazed how long Sheldon Anderson fell for Shorbagy's tricks. I would've thrown my racket too if my opponent got away with that block at 2:42. The refs should be going into every match with Marwan with the prior assumption that he is the one causing the problems. Do they think it's a coincidence that his matches get this ugly all the time?

Marwan should be warned his way of playing I thinks pretty unacceptable and you can’t tell ibrahim was getting rouled up about marwans unfair gameplay , disgraceful man . But good on Ibrahim for getting the win 🙌🙌 canny

i used to play squash but i gave it away for this very reason. its gotta be a stroke all day long. no let. gah.

What is it with lets on game point, it always goes to the person with game ball irrelevant of what the call should be, and is not consistent with previous calls in the match or tournament.

Marwan's behaviour was embarrassing from the first point. Throughout the entire match he argued almost every decision, culminating in literally screaming at the ref to check a pickup. How Sheldon kept his cool I'll never know, such behaviour wouldn't be tolerated even at low amateur level. I've often been a bit of a Marwan apologist but he has to take a serious look at himself now, he's become a joke. On the plus side, the intensity Ibrahim played at was different level at times. If he can tidy up the errors he will be a terrifying player... imagine what he'll be like when he's playing full time!

bad call for match point against momen

WTF with ref décisions in this tournament ! How Can you expect this sport to be more readable with such a poor level of refs. You ask players to behave well, but the ref system has to do its own révolution.

콜의 실력이 매우 늘어난 것 맞는데, 지가 하면 노렛이고 남이 하면 스트로크라는 수준낮은 항의는 좀 그만했으면 좋겠네요. 그리고 쇼바기는 형이나 동생이나 컨덕트스트로크의 장인들입니다.

Ibrahim like darwish on steroids. His swing is ridiculous but gets results. Not sure he has the consistency to break down coll though.

Billie Jean King in the front row for Shorbagy/Ibrahim, I've not seen any tennis players near Squash matches ever, and it's not good that the referee couldn't make right decisions as regards Marwan's infringements blocking tactics etc, thought the refs by now would be aware of that BS from him.

Why is coll the number 2 seed when he’s number 1 in the world?

Momen played a very good game except some passages of the game he was very inaccurate...you cant afford that with Coll

Marwan doing nothing wrong imo Ibrahim was right to be cautioned

Almost every second comment on every squash game, "This sport has a massive grey area. That's why it isn't in the olympics. This player is an idiot. That's why the sport isn't in the Olympics. Boo hoo boo hoo. Stop whining. I wonder how many people making those complaints actually watch Olympics (not just the 100m sprint, but actual Olympics). Seriously, every sport has a grey area. If you want one without a grey area, go watch chess. Get over it and enjoy the absolute mental, physical and emotional strength these athletes show every game. Some amazing rallies! Go Coll!

Or Connors McEnroe

Bad refreeing. Really need to get better refrees in PSA. Thats why Marwan Blockshorbaghy plays dirty and gets away with it.

Can we please suspend Marwan for a LONG time? His behavior was absolutely atrocious and embarrassing to the sport, especially with tennis royalty sitting in the front row in Billie Jean King. Not watching any of this idiot's matches ever again.

4:32 absolutely disgraceful behavior, you can see he just instantly cheered after bumping into Youssef then proceeded to complain, what kind of athleticism is that?

If you liked all the players, well what’s the fun in that, having some controversial players out there gets you more excited, more happy, more despaired, more interested in each game. I don’t think a guy blocking or another acting like a douche prevent squash as an Olympic sport, but it sure gets people active in the comment field.

How many bad calls can you make on game ball???

This is a gentleman sport!? or more like infant game..

Interestingly, I think Marwan's call for a double bounce in the 4th game, where he screamed like a child at the ref saying "Check it! I said check it!", was actually a double bounce. If he had conducted himself better throughout the match I'm sure the ref would have had a look at it. But Marwan is getting worse and worse on court, totally his own fault.

Marwan always has a problem with left handed players that fetch well. Ibrahim was acting a bit like a child, but every game Marwan plays gets scrappy.

How come the audience not wearing masks

Shorbagy lost it in his match

PSA should have shown Marwan's conduct stroke at 1-4 in the 4th game... appalling behaviour.

this was disgusting referring on mormen and Coll.... the no let's were bad calls

So many bad calls from the referee .

These refs... absolutely disgusting.

Never looked Marwan or his game. It is only a chance happening that he has traveled this far up the squash heirarchy ladder otherwise his game has no genuine talent

Bad sportsmanship should be punished!!! Poor example to to up and coming players.

Such incapable refereeing!

Ibrahim behaviour is second to asal, such a shame for a talented player