El Sherbini Retains Carol Weymuller Crown

Egypt's world No.1 Nour El Sherbini captured the Carol Weymuller Open crown for a second successive year after beating England's 2014 champion Alison Waters in the final of the PSA W50 event at Heights Casino in New York.

El Sherbini, the 20-year-old reigning world champion, breezed through to the final without dropping a game and defeated England's surprise semi-finalist Sarah-Jane Perry to book her place in the showpiece climax.

Waters, meanwhile, came up with arguably the performance of the tournament in her semi-final fixture to overcome recent US Open winner Camille Serme in a blistering five-game battle.

It was the Englishwoman who lead the head-to-head record between the pair 4-2 coming into the match, but El Sherbini stormed out of the traps to hold a 6-1 lead in game one, only to see Waters fight back to claim game balls on two occasions.

The determined Egyptian came back though to take it on the tie-break and, despite even starts to the second and third games, El Sherbini pulled away in both to wrap up a 13-11, 11-6, 11-3 victory to capture her first PSA World Tour title since becoming World Champion in April.

"It's a thrill to defend my title again this year after winning it last year, and that was the start of a really special season," said El Sherbini.

"Let's hope that this will be the start of a special season again this year."

Carol Weymuller image courtesy of Jean Ervasti