The ‘Wimbledon’ of squash is back again!
The Professional Squash Association, (PSA) returns to east London for the latest edition of its World Tour.
With proceedings of the tournament taking place Sunday there’s no better time to brush up on your squash.
With the ever growing amount of coronavirus cases there was speculation that the Canary Wharf Classic would not take place, but it was decided that the tournament would continue as scheduled, however, the Macau Open – a PSA World Tour Bronze event originally scheduled to take place at Tap Seac Square, between March 18-22, has been postponed due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
The Rules
All PSA World Tour matches across both men’s and women’s competitions, are played using PAR – Point A Rally – scoring.
PAR is played using a best of 5 games format – with each game scored as the first to win 11 points.
If the score in a game is tied at 10-10, play continues until a player wins by 2 clear points.
The Tournament
Financial services company St. James’s Place Wealth Management has signed up as the new title sponsor of the Canary Wharf Classic (ST. JAMES’S PLACE CANARY WHARF CLASSIC 2020) , a gold-level tournament on squash’s PSA World Tour.
The games are held at East Wintergarden, which has been the host to the event for the last sixteen years providing a spectacular backdrop.
This year’s tournament is held from the 8th March- 13th March.
Last year, Paul Coll became the first New Zealander to win the coveted trophy, overcoming Egypt’s Tarek Momen to win the 13th PSA Tour title of his career,
Key Players
Prize money this year for the winner for the tournament is $109,500 and there’s plenty who will be vying for the trophy.
Mohamed Elshorbagy, the Egypgtian is ranked number one and is one of the favourites winning the trophy back in 2018.
His fellow countrymen who are ranked number two and three respectively- Ali Farag and Tarek Momen are vying for the opportunity to get the hands on the trophy.
With the defending champion Pau Coll not competing this year, Tarek is especially hoping to better his performance, having finished as runner up for the last two years.
You can follow the action on Eurosport, BT Sport and beIN Sport.
