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Squash - 13. December 2017.

Evans Sends England No.1 Massaro to a Shock Defeat at the PSA World Championships

Welsh World No.14 Tesni Evans claimed the biggest win of her career as she sent England No.1 Laura Massaro crashing out of the 2017 Women’s AJ Bell PSA World Championships on day three of the prestigious tournament taking place in Manchester - becoming the first Welsh player since former men’s World No.5 and current PSA Chief Executive Alex Gough in 2007 to reach the last eight of the World Championships.


The pair had met in the quarter-final stage of last month’s Hong Kong Open, with Massaro - the 2013 World Champion - prevailing in four games.
But, inside Manchester’s National Squash Centre, it was Evans who got the better of the World No.4 this time around, and she will face U.S. Open champion Nour El Tayeb in the last eight, while Massaro has failed to reach the quarter-finals of this tournament for the first time in seven years.
“I kept on wondering throughout the match if today would be my day – and it was,” Evans said.
“My heart is racing fast. I felt like I had quite a lot of control in the first two games and then towards the end of the third game I was edgy to the max.
“I was just hoping she would give me a tin and that’s probably not the best way to play Laura because she didn’t give me anything. I was really working hard to get the point at the end but she kept coming back and back at me and I’m just delighted to get the win.”
Evans and El Tayeb will be joined in the quarter-finals by defending champion Nour El Sherbini and World No.5 Nouran Gohar, who beat Japan’s Satomi Watanabe and England’s Alison Waters, respectively, to set up a third consecutive World Championships meeting between each other.
“I was moving well and towards the end of the game I found my range,” said El Sherbini.
“I’m pleased with the performance because she’s a very talented player and has beaten a lot of good players."
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