RESULTS: Des Pyramides Open, Le Port Marly, Paris, France


1st round:
[1] Annie Au (HKG) bt [Q] Lotte Eriksen (NOR) 11-8, 11-3, 11-4 (27m)
[Q] Sina Wall (GER) bt [6] Nour El Tayeb (EGY) 13-11, 3-2 ret.
[4] Emma Beddoes (ENG) bt Heba El Torky (EGY) 11-4, 11-7, 9-11, 7-11, 11-3 (71m)
[5] Amanda Sobhy (USA) bt Lucie Fialova (CZE) 11-7, 11-6, 11-2 (26m)
[7] Nour El Sherbini (EGY) bt Olivia Blatchford (USA) 11-9, 10-12, 11-6, 11-3 (45m)
[Q] Tenille Swartz (RSA) bt [3] Joshna Chinappa (IND) 8-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-6 (37m)
[8] Kanzy Emad El-Defrawy (EGY) bt Maud Duplomb (FRA) 11-5, 11-5, 11-5 (30m)
[2] Dominique Lloyd-Walter (ENG) bt [Q] Laura Hill (ENG) 11-7, 11-2, 11-3 (35m)

Quarter-finals:
[1] Annie Au (HKG) bt [Q] Sina Wall (GER) 11-4, 11-4, 11-3 (24m)
[4] Emma Beddoes (ENG) bt [5] Amanda Sobhy (USA) 11-7, 11-7, 11-7 (29m)
[Q] Tenille Swartz (RSA) bt [7] Nour El Sherbini (EGY) w/o
[2] Dominique Lloyd-Walter (ENG) bt [8] Kanzy Emad El-Defrawy (EGY) 11-3, 12-10, 11-8 (50m)


Just days after winning the Women's World Junior Squash Championship title in Germany, Amanda Sobhy bowed out of the Des Pyramides Open in France after losing to fourth seed Emma Beddoes in the quarter-finals of the $17,250 WISPA World Tour event at Squash Pyramides in Le Port Marly, near Paris.

Sobhy, the 17-year-old fifth seed from the USA, began her maiden senior campaign as world junior champion in convincing style, seeing off Czech number one Lucie Fialova in straight games.

But experienced Beddoes, the world 24-year-old world No33 from England, proved too strong for the New York teenager, winning 11-7, 11-7, 11-7 in 29 minutes.

It was the end of the road too for former world junior champion Nour El Sherbini, whom Sobhy beat in the Cologne semi-finals.

The 14-year-old Egyptian also survived the first round in Port Marly, but was forced to concede her quarter-final against Tenille Swartz - giving the South African qualifier a trouble-free passage through to the last four.

Semi-final line-up:
[1] Annie Au (HKG) v [4] Emma Beddoes (ENG)
[2] Dominique Lloyd-Walter (ENG) v [Q] Tenille Swartz (RSA)