Canadian Men’s Open 2025

Final : ElShorbagy downs Cardenas to take the title

World #8 Mohamed ElShorbagy picked up his second title of the season after powering past Mexican #1 Leonel Cardenas in the final of the AirSprint Private Aviation Canadian Men’s Open in Calgary.

ElShorbagy, the top seed at the Bronze-level event, completed a faultless week of squash by overcoming fourth seed Cardenas 11-5, 11-5, 11-7 at Bow Valley Square, claiming the 51st PSA title of his career but his first on Canadian soil.

“I was really happy with the level of my focus this week,” ElShorbagy said. “Obviously I arrived this week on paper as quite a heavy favourite, but that doesn’t mean anything. I have shown sometimes in the past that I would lose focus in some of these matches, drop games, and get myself into trouble. That was something that I really wanted to focus on this week.

“Losing last week in Houston fired me up even more and from the first point to the last point of the whole event I was really on point.”

The next stop on the PSA Squash Tour is the Silver-level New Zealand Open 2025, which takes place between 4-9 March. The event will be shown live on SQUASHTV.

Semis : Cardenas downs Crouin to set up ElShorbagy final in Calgary

Mexico’s Leonel Cardenas delivered one of the performances of his career to overcome second seeded  Frenchman Victor Crouin in a 105-minute epic and advance to the final in Calgary.

The opening four games saw the momentum swing this way and that between the two 25-year-olds,
moving into the fifth after the 100-minute mark. Crouin staged a late comeback from 5-10 down but Cardenas completed the win to reach a second successive final.

“I’m so happy to get through,” Cardenas said. “It was a really tough fight out there today. It was a long, long battle so I’m really happy to win.”

Cardenas’ opponent in final will be top seed Mohamed ElShorbagy, who enjoyed a far more routine semi-final victory, powering his way past third seed Dimitri Steinmann in under 40 minutes.

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Quarters : Top four seeds through to semis in Calgary

Top seed Mohamed ElShorbagy avenged his recent Texas Open defeat to Gregoire Marche with a commanding three-game victory to book his spot in the last four of the Bronze-level event in Calgary.

ElShorbagy will face third seed Dimitri Steinmann in the semi-finals after the Swiss #1 fought back from a game behind to defeat eighth seed Omar Mosaad in the last match of the day.

Fourth seed Leonel Cardenas was required to dig deep into his reserves on his way to sealing a semi-final spot after edging past England’s Nathan Lake in a brutal four-game clash.

Second seed Victor Crouin will be Cardenas’ semi-final opponent in Calgary after the Frenchman came through a scrappy four-game affair with England’s Nick Wall.

Round Two : Steinmann wins all-Swiss battle as quarter-finalists are decided

Switzerland’s Dimitri Steinmann survived a major scare on day two in Calgary, edging past national teammate Yannick Wilhelmi in a tense five-game battle to book his spot in the quarter-finals at Bow Valley Square.

Third seeded Steinmann now meets eighth seed  Omar Mosaad, who came from two games down to deny Charlie Lee an upset win to ensure that all eight seeds progressed to the quarters, the other six all winning in straight games.

Round One : Late entrants El Torkey and Palomino claim upsets wins

World #65 Kareem El Torkey and World #78 Ronald Palomino made the most of late entrees into the AirSprint Private Aviation Canadian Men’s Open 2025 by claiming upset victories on day one of the Bronze-level event in Calgary.

El Torkey and Palomino, who received positions in the main draw after the late withdrawals of Youssef Soliman and Addeen Idrakie, took their opportunities with both hands, recording impressive wins over England’s Simon Herbert and Canada’s David Baillargeon on the all-glass court inside Bow Valley Square.

Egypt’s El Torkey, 20, took to the court on the back of a title victory at the Goodfellow Classic in Toronto last week, and continued his fine form to hold off a late charge from Herbert and win in five games to set up a second-round tie with top seed and former World Champion Mohamed ElShorbagy.

After the match, El Torkey said: “This was such a difficult one to get through today after my win in Toronto. “I just flew in today and was just trying to keep my mind and body healthy. I got around one hour of sleep today, so I’m very happy to be through today. It means so much to me to be playing at this level.”

Colombia’s Palomino scored the other notable upset on the opening day of action, overcoming Canadian #1 David Baillargeon in three games. Despite playing in front of a partisan home crowd, Palomino controlled proceedings from point one, moving through to take the victory over an increasingly hampered Baillargeon by an 11-4, 11-9, 11-7 scoreline.