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SHABANA ADVANCES [Main Draw] Finland's Olli Tuominen survived his first round match in the Rotary Heliopolis Open Squash Championship – but the fourth seed was fully tested by Egyptian teenager Ramy Ashour, the world junior champion in his home town of Cairo. Ashour, 17, clinched the first game in a tie-break, then forced two more games into tense tie-breaks before eventually bowing out bravely 10-11 (1-3), 11-10 (4-2), 11-9, 11-10 (4-2) to the fighting Finn. Tuominen, the 26-year-old world No17 from Helsinki, has a surprise opponent in the next round: Englishman Adrian Grant arrived in Cairo fresh from his victory in last month's CAS International in Pakistan – success which catapulted the 24-year-old Londoner five places to No14 in the world rankings at the beginning of this month. But on the Egyptian courts, left-hander Grant was no match for compatriot Jonathan Kemp, a qualifier who took just 30 minutes to stun his fifth-seeded countryman 11-5 11-8 11-6. The other two first round matches on the opening day of this $40,000 PSA Tour event saw straightforward straight games victories for local players. Top seed Amr Shabana, the Cairo-based former world champion, beat compatriot Hisham Mohd Ashour, a qualifier, 11-8 11-5 11-10 in 44 minutes. His opponent in the quarter-finals will be Wael El Hindi after the eighth seed defeated Frenchman Renan Lavigne 11-4 11-6 11-7. RESULTS:
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