Lobban Lifts Geneva Open Trophy

In the first ever all-Scottish PSA World Tour final, Greg Lobban triumphed over Douglas Kempsell in straight games to win the 41st Geneva Open, the PSA Challenger 5 squash event at Squash Club de Geneve in the Swiss city of Geneva.

Second seed Lobban's chances were boosted in the opening round when unseeded Egyptian Karim El Hammamy downed Jan Koukal, the top seed from the Czech Republic, in a shock four-game upset.

El Hammamy progressed through to the semi-finals before losing out to Kempsell in a five-game marathon which saw the fourth seed from Edinburgh reach his maiden Tour final.

Lobban, the Inverness-born World No.77, had a much easier semi - crushing England's third seed Adam Auckland 11-1, 11-9, 11-1 to make the ninth Tour final of his career.

The final marked the Scots' first Tour meeting. Lobban, 21, justified the 54-place ranking supremacy over his 20-year-old compatriot by beating Kempsell 11-5, 11-8, 11-3 to record the third PSA Tour title of his career.