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Semi finals Day

It is going to be a british final tomorrow at the Budapest Open, as Lobban and Rooney wins in straight games! The first match of the night was between nr.3 seed Patrick Rooney and nr.6 seed Yannick Wilhelmi. The first game was a real thriller with a 15-13 score. Rooney was able to maintain the lead and finish the semi final 11-2, 11-8.

Greg Lobban, the nr.1 seed played an exciting match with japan’s Tsukue. Each game was really close, but Lobban managed to win the end-games, and secure a spot in the final. 11-9, 11-7, 13-11.

It is going to be an epic final on Wednesday, see you all courtside at 7PM (GMT +2)

The entire tournament can be watched online on Squash TV, with countless stories and posts daily on the PSA Budapest Open Facebook and Instagram pages, and Ricsi Kirner’s pictures here.

We have witnessed some amazing squash in the quarter final round here in Budapest. Nr.1 seed Greg Lobban made his way to the semis with a 3-0 win against George Parker.

We’ve had two exciting 5-setters today:

Home player Balázs Farkas and japan’s Tsukue’s match had everything, but unfortunately for the home crowd, Tsukue made it to the semifinals in the end. (11-6, 7-11, 11-13, 11-8, 11-4)

Rooney and Soares’s match was also a 5-game thriller, where nr.3 seed Rooney managed to get that spot in the semis. (11-13, 11-3, 11-5, 9-11, 11-6)

TOP4: Greg Lobban (1), Patrick Rooney (3), Yannick Wilhelmi (6), Ryunosuke Tsukue (7)

Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day, see you then!

The entire tournament can be watched online on Squash TV, with countless stories and posts daily on the PSA Budapest Open Facebook and Instagram pages, and Ricsi Kirner’s pictures here.

The $32,000 PSA World Ranking Tournament began in Budapest on September 20.

On the second day of the tournament, we could see the eight main draw players play, as yesterday’s results formed the draw for 16. The biggest surprise came soon when 28-year-old South African Dewald van Niekerk (73rd seed) defeated 2nd seed Nick Wall (42nd seed) in three games.

The match between the Swiss Wilhelmi and the Spanish Perez ended in a five-set tie with the Swiss winning (11-6, 8-11, 13-15, 11-1, 11-4) and the match between the Japanese Tsukue and the Dutch Damming ended in a five-set tie with the former winning (11-9, 9-11, 8-11, 11-9, 11-9), which is interesting for us because the Japanese player will now face Balázs Farkas in the quarter-finals on Monday.

Other players in the TOP 8:

Lobban ( vs Elshafei 11-4, 11-6, 11-6)

Parker ( vs Evans 11-4, 11-4, 11-8)

Farkas ( vs Mekhalfi 12-10, 6-11, 8-11, 12-10)

Rooney ( vs Levy 11-0, 11-9, 12-14, 11-8)

Soares ( vs Herbert 11-8, 9-11, 11-9, 11-7)

The entire tournament can be watched online on Squash TV, with countless stories and posts daily on the PSA Budapest Open Facebook and Instagram pages, and Ricsi Kirner’s pictures here.

The $32,000 PSA World Ranking Tournament began in Budapest on September 20.

On the first day, the audience could see 16 athletes in 8 extremely exciting matches at Marczibányi Square. Two of our Hungarian athletes, who won wild cards, also took to the field, Dániel Simon lost to Portuguese Rui Soares 3-0 (11-3, 11-5, 11-9), and Benedek Takács also lost to Egyptian Yassin Elshafei 3-0 (11-3, 11-1, 11-4).

Balázs Farkas, the number one player in our country, will take to the field on Sunday at 16:45 against Frenchman Toufik Makhalfi (vr.71) for a place in the top eight.

The entire tournament can be watched online on Squash TV, with countless stories and posts daily on the PSA Budapest Open Facebook and Instagram pages, and Ricsi Kirner’s pictures here.

After 20 years, the European Individual Closed Championship will be held in Hungary again!

We recently received official confirmation from the ESF that Budapest will host the EICC 2026. We last hosted the European Championship in 2006, so we are very happy that this prestigious European tournament has come to our country again after two decades. The date could not be more perfect, as it coincides exactly with one of our biggest national holidays, and of course we will take advantage of it!