WORLD SQUASH NEWS

RESULTS: German Open Squash Championships, Gerlingen, Germany

Men's semi-finals:
[1] Omar Elborolossy (EGY) bt [15] Majid Khan (PAK) 15-10, 15-7, 15-10 (47m)
[2] Adrian Grant (ENG) bt [4] Moh'd Azlan Iskandar (MAS) 10-15, 15-4, 15-10, 11-15, 15-9 (90m)

Women's semi-finals:
[1] Laura-Jane Lengthorn (ENG) bt [3] Raneem El Weleily (EGY) 9-4, 9-5, 8-10, 9-1 (57m)
Kathrin Rohrmüller (GER) bt [6] Line Hansen (DEN) 8-10, 9-5, 9-4, 9-6 (38m)

Rohrmüller Reaches German Open Final

Runner-up in the German National Championships for the first time at the beginning of this year, unseeded Kathrin Rohrmüller is now just one step away from lifting the country's Open title after reaching the final of the German Open Squash Championships in Gerlingen.

The 21-year-old from Rosenheim will face England's top seed Laura-Jane Lengthorn, while the men's final will feature the two top seeds Omar Elborolossy of Egypt and Adrian Grant from England.

With a new-found confidence after beating the second and fifth seeds to reach the last four, Rohrmüller swept to her third successive upset when she dismissed Denmark's sixth seed Line Hansen 8-10 9-5 9-4 9-6 in 38 minutes to register her WISPA final debut.

Favourite Lengthorn had a tougher battle to reach her fourth WISPA World Tour final.  It took the 20-year-old from Chorley in Lancashire 57 minutes to overcome Egypt's remarkable 15-year-old Raneem El Weleily 9-4 9-5 8-10 9-1.

In the men's event, Egypt's No1 seed Omar Elborolossy ended the brave run of Pakistan's Majid Khan when he beat the 15th seed 15-10 15-7 15-10 in 47 minutes to reach the 17th PSA Tour final of his career.

The other semi-final was an evenly-contested encounter in which second seed Adrian Grant survived his fourth successive match lasting more than an hour to quash fourth seed Moh'd Azlan Iskandar in a 90-minute five-game marathon. 

The 23-year-old Londoner's 10-15 15-4 15-10 11-15 15-9 victory over the Malaysian takes Grant into his 12th PSA final.