Recreation and Leisure

The world’s best female players will appear at the CIB Black Ball Women’s Squash Open between March 8-14, with the tournament being upgraded to a PSA World Tour Platinum event this season.

This year’s draw is headed up by Egypt’s World No.1 Raneem El Welily, who defeated World Champion Nour El Sherbini at the Black Ball Sporting Club to win the inaugural women’s title in 2019.

World No.2 Nouran Gohar and World No.5 Nour El Tayeb are the other two Egyptian players in the hunt for the trophy, and the winner’s share of the $180,500 total prize fund.