Squash championship held in Cairo, Egypt
PSA World Tour Finals |
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1st Women's PSA World Tour Finals |
Location | Cairo, Egypt |
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Venue | Mall of Arabia |
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Date(s) | 9–14 June 2019 |
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Website worldtourfinals.com |
Prize money | $160,000 |
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Results |
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Champion | Raneem El Weleily (EGY) |
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Runner-up | Camille Serme (FRA) |
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Semi-finalists | Nour El Tayeb (EGY)
Nouran Gohar (EGY) |
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The 2019 CIB Women's PSA World Series Finals was the first women's edition of the PSA World Tour Finals (Prize money : $160,000) after the renaming of PSA World Series. The top 8 players in the 2018–19 PSA World Tour qualified for the event. The event took place at Mall of Arabia, Cairo in Egypt from 9–14 June 2019.
It was the first edition under the PSA World Tour Finals label after the PSA renamed PSA World Series to current PSA World Tour Finals. CIB sponsored the event.
Egyptian Raneem El Weleily won its first PSA Finals title after defeating unexpected French finalist Camille Serme 3–2 in the Final. El Weleily went 2–0 down, but managed to turn it around to win 3–2.[1]
PSA World Ranking Points
PSA also awards points towards World Ranking. Points are awarded as follows:
PSA World Tour Finals | Ranking Points |
Rank | Prize Money US$ | Winner | Runner up | 3/4 | Round-Robin Match Win | Undefeated bonus |
World Tour Finals | $160,000 | 1000 | 550 | 200 | 150 | 150 |
Match points distribution
Points towards the standings are awarded when the following scores:
Match score | Points |
2–0 win | 4 points |
2–1 win | 3 points |
1–2 loss | 1 point |
0–2 loss | 0 point |
Qualification & Seeds
Qualification
Top eight players at 2018–19 PSA World Tour standings qualifies to Finals.
World Championship | 177.5 | 1st Round | 290 | 2nd Round | 475 | 3rd Round | 780 | Quarterfinalist | 1270 | Semifinalist | 2090 | Runner-up | 3175 | Winner | | | | Platinum | 152.5 | 1st Round | 250 | 2nd Round | 410 | 3rd Round | 675 | Quarterfinalist | 1100 | Semifinalist | 1810 | Runner-up | 2750 | Winner | | | | Gold | 160 | 1st Round | 260 | 2nd Round | 430 | Quarterfinalist | 700 | Semifinalist | 1150 | Runner-up | 1750 | Winner | | Silver | 112.5 | 1st Round | 182.5 | 2nd Round | 300 | Quarterfinalist | 490 | Semifinalist | 805 | Runner-up | 1225 | Winner | | Bronze | 80 | 1st Round | 130 | 2nd Round | 215 | Quarterfinalist | 350 | Semifinalist | 575 | Runner-up | 875 | Winner | |
Top 16 Women's World Tour Standings 2018–19[2] |
Rank | Player | Tournaments Played | CHN
| USA
| USA
| USA
| HKG
| USA
| USA
| USA
| EGY
| USA
| NED
| MAC
| EGY
| ENG
| ENG
| Total Points |
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1 | Raneem El Weleily* | 10 | 1750 | 805 | 2750 | – | 1810 | 1810 | – | 1270 | 1750 | – | 1750 | – | 2750 | – | 675 | 17120 |
2 | Nour El Sherbini* | 9 | 700 | – | 1810 | – | 675 | 2750 | – | 3175 | 1150 | – | 1150 | – | 675 | – | 675 | 12760 |
3 | Nour El Tayeb | 12 | 700 | – | 410 | 875 | 675 | 1100 | 875 | 2090 | 260 | – | 700 | – | 675 | 490 | 1100 | 9950 |
4 | Camille Serme | 10 | 1150 | 300 | 1100 | – | 675 | 675 | – | 1270 | 430 | – | 700 | – | 1100 | – | 1810 | 9210 |
5 | Joelle King* | 10 | 260 | 300 | 410 | – | 2750 | 1100 | – | 780 | 700 | – | – | – | 675 | 1225 | 675 | 8875 |
6 | Nouran Gohar | 9 | 430 | – | 250 | – | 1100 | 675 | – | 780 | 700 | – | – | – | 1810 | 300 | 2750 | 8795 |
7 | Sarah-Jane Perry | 12 | 430 | 1225 | 675 | 575 | 1100 | – | – | 475 | 260 | 215 | 430 | – | 675 | 300 | 1100 | 7460 |
8 | Tesni Evans | 13 | 260 | – | 1100 | 215 | 410 | 410 | 575 | 780 | 260 | 130 | 430 | – | 410 | 805 | 410 | 6195 |
9 | Amanda Sobhy | 11 | – | 182.5 | 675 | 215 | 410 | 410 | – | 475 | – | 875 | 430 | – | 1100 | 490 | 410 | 5672.5 |
10 | Alison Waters | 13 | 260 | 300 | 410 | 350 | 410 | 675 | 350 | 475 | 260 | – | 260 | – | 250 | 300 | 410 | 4710 |
11 | Laura Massaro | 11 | 260 | 490 | 675 | – | 250 | 410 | – | 475 | 430 | – | 430 | – | 410 | 300 | 250 | 4380 |
12 | Annie Au | 9 | – | 490 | 410 | – | 250 | 410 | – | 780 | 160 | – | – | 875 | 410 | – | 410 | 4195 |
13 | Salma Hany | 12 | 260 | 182.5 | 410 | 350 | 250 | 675 | – | 290 | 260 | – | – | 130 | 410 | 182.5 | 250 | 3650 |
14 | Joshna Chinappa | 10 | 430 | – | 410 | 215 | 410 | 410 | – | 290 | 430 | – | – | 350 | 250 | – | 410 | 3605 |
15 | Victoria Lust | 10 | 260 | – | 250 | 130 | 410 | 410 | 350 | 475 | – | 575 | – | – | 250 | – | 410 | 3520 |
16 | Nicol David | 11 | 430 | 300 | 410 | – | 250 | 410 | – | 475 | 160 | – | 260 | – | 250 | 182.5 | 250 | 3377.5 |
Bold – Players qualified for the final
(*) – Winners of Platinum's tournaments automatically qualifies for Finals.
Seeds
Group stage results
Times are Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00). To the best of three games.
Group A
Standings
Source: PSA World Tour Finals
Group B
Standings
Source: PSA World Tour Finals
Knockout stage
Semifinal
To the best of three games.
Final
To the best of five games.
See also
References
- ^ "World Tour Finals: Finals Day - As It Happens". psaworldtour.com. 14 June 2019.
- ^ PSA Women's World Tour Standings
External links
- PSA World Tour Finals at PSA website
- PSA World Tour Finals official website