Salma Scores Hurghada Win

Some three years after last playing competitively on the WISPA World Tour, Egypt's Salma Shabana recorded a notable triumph in the first qualifying round of the Women's Hurghada International in Cairo, Egypt.

Now mother of four-year-old son Marwen and eleven-month daughter Amina, Shabana runs a squash academy with husband Omar Elborolossy, also a former Egyptian international - and the presence of the former world No20 certainly inspired her several pupils competing in the established WISPA event.

"I really just wanted to get fit to coach well but Omar said I was playing well so why not target Hurghada," said the 29-year-old said after beating current Egyptian international Eman El Amir 9-3, 9-6, 9-1 in 34 minutes.

Shabana will meet England's Lauren Siddall in the qualifying finals.