India’s Saurav Ghosal suffered a 0-3 defeat at the hands of Egypt’s Mohamed Abouelghar in the final of the $50,000 Macau Open squash tournament, a major PSA world tour event in Chennai on Sunday. Ghosal, seeded fourth in the tournament, lost 1-11, 4-11, 4-11 to the second seeded Egyptian opponent, PTI reported.
After the grand strides that Ghosal, the fourth seed, had made en route to the final, there was a flicker of hope in the title round. Two years ago, in the CCI tournament in Mumbai, the Indian had beaten the Egyptian at the quarter-final stage. Since then, Ahbouelger has jumped to rank 11 in the world, 17 rungs above Ghosal.
The supremacy was reflected quick enough with the Egyptian giving away little in carving out a comfortable win.
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