Egyptian squash ace Marwan Elshorbagy will lead Welsh Wizards into their Premier Squash League crunch clash with Tradition@RAC next Tuesday.
Tradition stand top of the Southern Division, two points ahead of Wizards, and travel to play the newly-formed Welsh team at Sport Wales National Centre in Cardiff.
That is an intriguing test for the Wizards man who signed for the Welsh club at the start of this season, but missed club matches and tournaments due to personal reasons which meant he had to go home to Cairo
Now he’s back and at peak fitness to make a major impact over the rest of this season.
Wizards have made a powerful start to their PSL season led by Welsh number one and World number 12 Tesni Evans.
Edmon Lopez, Welshman Elliott Morris Devred and Cardiff Met University student Grace Gear will also play for Wizards against Tradition, while manager David Evans still has to name one more player.
Tickets
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Premier Squash League fixtures
Tuesday, February 5
Northern Division
University of Warwic/Kenilworth Squash (60pts) v UWE / Elite Squash Bristol (37pts)
Raphael Kandra v Tom Ford
Iker Pajares v Sean Conroy
Mark Fuller v Mike Harris
Harry Falconer v James Peach
Julianne Courtice v Lily Taylor
Team Pontefract (45pts) v University of Nottingham (46pts)
James Willstrop v Declan James
Chris Simpson v Richie Fallows
Abhay Singh v Julian Tomlinson
Sam Todd v Lewis Walters
Laura Massaro v Hana Ramadan
Northumberland Club/Newcastle University (28pts) v University of Birmingham Lions (54pts)
Cameron Pilley v Jan Van Den Herrewegen
Piedro Schweertman v Stuart Macgregor
Rob Downer v Josh Owen
Chris Wiggins v Michael Mattimore
Lisa Aitken v Millie Tomlinson
Southern Division
Welsh Wizards (57pts) v Tradition @ RAC (59pts)
Marwan ElShorbagy v Paul Coll
Edmon Lopez v Daryl Selby
Elliott Morris Devred v George Parker
Tbc v Ben Coleman
Grace Gear v Alice Green
Luxfords St George’s Hill (56pts) v Team Chichester (32pts)
Tom Richards v Mathieu Castagnet
Borja Golan v Tim Vail
Carlos Cornes v Tom Walsh
Robbie Temple v Miles Jenkins
Jasmine Hutton v Lauren Briggs
Friday, February 8
Bexley (35pts) v Coolhurst (34pts)
Josh Masters v Greg Lobban
Olli Tuominen v Adrian Waller
Benjamin Aubert v Charles Sharpes
Diego Gobbi v tbc
Elise Lazarus v Alice Green
Note: with matches now played as best of three, the points system has altered to
ONE point per Game won plus a win bonus of THREE points.