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INDUSTRY NEWS
ASHAWAY’S 3 NEW
SQUASH STARS
Ashaway Sponsors Three
Rising Professional Squash
Association Tour Players:
Amanda Sobhy, Leo Au, and
Yathreb Adel
Ashaway and its affiliates have recently signed string sponsorship
agreements with three rising PSA players: Amanda Sobhy, Leo Au,
and Yathreb Adel. The addition of these three players to its spon-
sorship roster continues Ashaway’s longstanding commitment to
professional squash and to squash players worldwide.
Currently ranked US #1 and PSA #18, and playing with Ashaway
UltraNick® 18, American Amanda Sobhy is one of the most char-
ismatic players on the PSA World Tour and looks set to battle at
the top of the World Rankings for years to come. She secured her
first Tour title in January 2010 at the Liberty Bell Open and, after
following that up with the Delaware State Open and the Racquet
Club International, she became the first player to claim three Tour
titles as a 16-year-old. The 2015/16 season saw Sobhy cement
her status as a top 10 contender as she reached her first World Series final in January 2016’s Tournament of Champions.
Sobhy went on to the semi-finals of the U.S. Open in 2016 and reached the semi-finals of the Ciudad De Floridablanca.
However, injury forced her to have surgery on a ruptured left Achilles tendon and she was sidelined for most of the year.
Leo Au is one of Hong Kong's most successful players with a wealth of PSA World Tour titles to his name. Currently ranked
#21 in the world by PSA, Au recently switched to Ashaway’s new polyurethane-based MultiNick® 18. Au won his first
title at the Buler Challenge Cup in 2010 and followed that with back-to-back triumphs in 2011 at the Victoria Open and
Tasmanian Open. Recently Au made the semi-finals in the 2017 HKFC International and in the Serena Hotels CAS Interna-
tional Squash Championship. He made the finals in the President Gold Cup International Squash Tournament a couple of
months later, and also made the semi-finals in the Holtrand Open in 2017.
Signed by Ashaway distributor Pacific Sports, Yathreb Adel of Egypt is one of the most exciting youngsters on the PSA
World Tour. Currently ranked PSA #25, Adel already has a number of Tour titles to her name and uses Ashaway’s Pow-
erNick® 18 string. Adel turned pro in 2010 and has a career high ranking of #24, including 8 PSA titles. In 2016 she was
sidelined for a year due to injury but returned to the tour in 2017 and climbed from PSA #229 to #25!
Ashaway congratulates all these fine players!
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