Defending champion Kristian Frost Olesen battled his way through to the quarter-finals of the Sekisui Open in Switzerland after stemming a courageous fightback by German qualifier Andre Haschker in the PSA World Tour Challenger 10 squash event at Sportpark Pilatus Kriens in Kriens.

English hope Peter Barker became the biggest seeding casualty in the Allam British Open Squash Championships after unseeded Egyptian Tarek Momen claimed a shock four-game victory over last year's semi-finalist, the No7 seed, in today's second round of the PSA World Series event at the KC Stadium in Hull in the English county of Yorkshire.

Ramy Ashour is seeded to become the first Egyptian since 1966 to win one of the world's longest-established squash tournaments at the Allam British Open Championships in Hull this week.

Egyptian players claimed half of the available places in the main draw of the Allam British Open as men's qualifying concluded at Pontefract Squash and Leisure Club, while three English players were also added to the first round draw which takes place at the KC Stadium in Hull on Monday and Tuesday.

Amr Shabana, the 33-year-old from Cairo who won his fourth world championship title in Kuwait four years ago, led a trio of fellow Egyptians through to the last 16 of the Kuwait PSA Cup, the third PSA World Series squash event of the year at the Qadsia Sporting Club in Kuwait.

In a day beset by weather conditions which finally led to the transfer of the last second round match in the Allam British Open Squash Championships in Hull onto a conventional indoor court, Australian Cameron Pilley pulled off the comeback of the tournament to upset sixth-seeded Egyptian Mohamed Elshorbagy to become the second unseeded player to reach the quarter-finals of the PSA World Series event at the KC Stadium in the English county of Yorkshire.

Ramy Ashour, the world number one from Egypt who last lost a match in the final of the 2012 Allam British Open Squash Championships in London, extended his unbeaten run into a second year when he beat compatriot Omar Mosaad in tonight's first round of the 2013 championship, the fourth PSA World Series event of the year at the KC Stadium in Hull in the English county of Yorkshire.

Egyptians claimed four of the eight qualifying slots in the Allam British Open Squash Championships to boost to nine the nation's count in the main draw of the fourth PSA World Series event of the year which gets underway today at the KC Stadium in Hull in the English county of Yorkshire.

English trio Joe Lee, Chris Simpson and Jonathan Kemp progressed through to the qualifying finals of the Allam British Open Squash Championships at the expense of fellow Britons in the first qualifying round at Pontefract Squash Club in Yorkshire.

Kuwaiti squash star Abdullah Al Muzayen delighted the home crowd by pulling off a stunning upset in the first round of the Kuwait PSA Cup, the third PSA World Series event of the year at the Qadsia Sporting Club in Kuwait.