2020 Men's PSA World Tour Finals

PSA World Tour Finals
2nd Men's PSA World Tour Finals
LocationEgypt Cairo, Egypt
VenueMall of Arabia
Date(s)28 Sep.–3 Oct. 2020
Website
worldtourfinals.com
Prize money$185,000
Results
Champion Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY)
Runner-up Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY)
Semi-finalists Ali Farag (EGY)
 Joel Makin (WAL)
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The 2020 CIB Men's PSA World Series Finals was the men's edition of the PSA World Tour Finals (Prize money : $185,000). The top 8 players in the 2019–20 PSA World Tour are qualified for the event. The event took place at Mall of Arabia, Cairo in Egypt from 28 September–3 October 2020.

It's the second edition under the PSA World Tour Finals label after the PSA renamed PSA World Series to current PSA World Tour Finals. CIB remains as the title sponsor.

Karim Abdel Gawad was the defending champion but was beaten in the Final to Marwan El Shorbagy. Marwan won the Final 3–0 (11–6, 11–5, 11–3) (47min) in his only second World Tour Finals appearance.[1]

PSA World Ranking Points

PSA also awards points towards World Ranking. Points are awarded as follows:

PSA World Tour Finals Ranking Points
Rank Prize Money US$ Winner Runner up 3/4 Round-Robin Match Win Undefeated bonus
World Tour Finals $185,000 1000 550 200 150 150

Match points distribution

Points towards the standings are awarded when the following scores:

Match score Points
2–0 win 4 points
2–1 win 3 points
1–2 loss 1 point
0–2 loss 0 point

Qualification & Seeds

Qualification

Top eight players at 2019–20 PSA World Tour standings qualifies to Finals.


Top 16 Men's PSA World Tour Standings 2019–20[2]
Rank Player Tournaments
Played 		CHN
China 		FRA
France 		USA
United States 		USA
United States 		EGY
Egypt 		QAT
Qatar 		ENG
England 		USA
United States 		USA
United States 		USA
United States 		CAN
Canada 		USA
United States 		ENG
England 		Total
Points
 
1 Egypt Mohamed El Shorbagy‡ 8 1750 – 1750 1810 – 780 1150 2750 – – – 675 1750 12415
2 Egypt Ali Farag 6 1150 – – 2750 1810 – – 1100 – – – 2750 1150 10710
3 Egypt Tarek Momen 8 – – 1150 1100 250 3175 – 1810 – – 1225 1100 700 10510
4 New Zealand Paul Coll 8 – 1225 – 675 1100 2090 700 675 – – 805 1810 – 9080
5 Egypt Karim Abdel Gawad 7 – – – 675 2750 475 1750 1100 – – – 1100 260 8110
6 Egypt Marwan El Shorbagy 10 700 – 700 250 675 1270 430 250 – 300 – 250 700 5525
7 Peru Diego Elías 9 – – – 1100 250 780 260 250 – 1225 490 675 430 5460
8 Wales Joel Makin 10 – 805 430 410 1100 475 430 675 – – 300 410 160 5195
9 Germany Simon Rösner 8 – 300 260 675 250 1270 – 675 – – – 675 260 4365
10 India Saurav Ghosal 9 700 – – 250 410 475 430 410 575 – – 250 430 3930
11 Egypt Fares Dessouky 7 – 300 – 250 675 475 – – 875 – – 250 430 3255
12 Egypt Mazen Hesham 9 430 – – 410 410 290 430 250 – – 300 410 160 3090
13 France Grégoire Marche 9 – 490 – 410 410 177.5 – 410 350 182.5 – 250 160 2840
14 France Mathieu Castagnet 9 – 300 260 250 – 290 260 250 – – 490 410 260 2770
15 Egypt Zahed Salem 8 – 490 – 410 250 780 – 250 130 182.5 – 250 – 2742.5
16 Egypt Omar Mosaad 8 430 – – 250 250 475 – 250 350 – – 410 260 2675

Bold – Players qualified for the Finals
(*) – Winners of Platinum's tournaments automatically qualifies for Finals.
(‡) – Mohamed ElShorbay opts out to not play for personal reasons. [3]


Seeds

  1. Egypt Ali Farag
  2. Egypt Tarek Momen
  3. New Zealand Paul Coll
  4. Egypt Karim Abdel Gawad
  5. Egypt Marwan El Shorbagy
  6. Peru Diego Elías
  7. Wales Joel Makin
  8. Germany Simon Rösner

Group stage results

Times are Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00). To the best of three games.

Group A

Date Time Player 1 Player 2 Score
28 September 18:45  Ali Farag (EGY)  Simon Rösner (GER) 12–10, 11–6
28 September 20:15  Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY)  Diego Elías (PER) 11–9, 3–11, 5–11
29 September 20:15  Ali Farag (EGY)  Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY) 8–11, 11–4, 8–11
29 September 21:45  Diego Elías (PER)  Simon Rösner (GER) 11–8, 9–11, 6–11
30 September 20:15  Ali Farag (EGY)  Diego Elías (PER) 14–16, 11–5, 11–3
1 October 18:45  Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY)  Simon Rösner (GER) 13–11, 11–8

Standings

Pos Team Pld W L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY) 3 2 1 69 77 −8 8[a] Advancing to Semifinals
2  Ali Farag (EGY) 3 2 1 86 66 +20 8[a]
3  Diego Elías (PER) 3 1 2 81 85 −4 5
4  Simon Rösner (GER) 3 1 2 65 73 −8 3
Source: PSA World Tour Finals
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head: Gawad (11–8, 4–11, 11–8) Farag

Group B

Date Time Player 1 Player 2 Score
28 September 21:45  Tarek Momen (EGY)  Joel Makin (WAL) 5–11, 11–6, 9–11
29 September 20:30  Paul Coll (NZL)  Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY) 6–11, 5–11
30 September 18:45  Tarek Momen (EGY)  Paul Coll (NZL) 9–11, 8–11
30 September 21:45  Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY)  Joel Makin (WAL) 11–8, 11–6
1 October 20:15  Tarek Momen (EGY)  Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY) 11–8, 11–3
1 October 21:45  Paul Coll (NZL)  Joel Makin (WAL) 3–11, 5–11

Standings

Pos Team Pld W L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY) 3 2 1 55 47 +8 8 Advancing to Semifinals
2  Joel Makin (WAL) 3 2 1 64 55 +9 7
3  Tarek Momen (EGY) 3 1 2 64 61 +3 5
4  Paul Coll (NZL) 3 1 2 41 61 −20 4
Source: PSA World Tour Finals

Knockout stage

Semi finals (2 October) Final (3 October)
              
4  Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY) 11 11
7  Joel Makin (WAL) 9 8
4  Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY) 6 5 3
5  Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY) 11 11 11
5  Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY) 11 7 12
1  Ali Farag (EGY) 9 11 10

Semifinal

To the best of three games.

Date Time Player 1 Player 2 Score
2 October 19:15  Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY)  Joel Makin (WAL) 11–9, 11–8
2 October 20:30  Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY)  Ali Farag (EGY) 11–9, 7–11, 12–10

Final

To the best of five games.

Date Time Player 1 Player 2 Score
3 October 20:00  Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY)  Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY) 6–11, 5–11, 3–11


2020 Men's PSA World Tour Finals winner
Egypt
Marwan El Shorbagy
First title

See also

References

  1. ^ "World Tour Finals: ElShorbagy Lifts Men's Title". psaworldtour.com. 3 October 2020.
  2. ^ PSA Men's World Tour Standings
  3. ^ "World's Best Squash Players to Line up at Mall of Arabia for CIB PSA World Tour Finals". psaworldtour.com. Retrieved 7 September 2020.