New Delhi, 03 November 2026: Indian squash player Velavan Senthilkumar has maintained his excellent form and won the title in the $35,000 'Czech Open' competition held in Brno.
In the final, the 28-year-old defeated Scotland's Greg Lobban (the top-ranked player and world No. 31) in a four-game match.
Senthilkumar, ranked 42nd in the world and fourth seed in this competition, won his 12th PSA Tour title by defeating Loban 13-11, 11-5, 8-11, 11-7. This is his second 'Copper'-level title; Earlier, he had won his first title of this level at the Budapest Open in August.
Meanwhile, at the US Open (a PSA Platinum-level tournament) held in Philadelphia with a prize money of US$241,000, Egypt's world number one and top seed Mostafa Asley defeated world number 24 Abhay Singh of India 11-3, 11-1, 11-7 in the first round.
Then, in the second round, the Egyptian player defeated another Indian, Veer Chotrani (ranked 36 in the world) by the scores of 11-1, 11-6, 11-4.
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