🇪🇬 Ibrahim v Elias 🇵🇪 | Hong Kong Squash Open 2024 | QF HIGHLIGHTS

[@squashtv]

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[@B1J0D]

Hopefully Ibrahim can get his emotions under control in the coming years. If so, he's guaranteed top 3.

[@nicky_c_305]

something about the glass floors makes me thing its easier to get injured

[@cartershen1078]

Absolutely, players are clearly not risking to rush with their full speed

[@carlalford1461]

What's up with the audio? The hiss is terrible

[@dudicrous]

Elias that happy to win means Ibrahim is rising.

[@logx-ow1us]

Elias as usual playing spectacularly. Ibrahim, however, impressed me. I dint remember him being this solid and controlled. He was too spastic before. This tournament he turned something on. It’s a bit less obvious vs someone like Elias, but vs gawad he looked near unbeatable at times.

[@cookesam6]

He's still improving his game hey, gets better every year - as you'd hope I guess lol. Good old elias just gradually suffocating his opponent makes things hard though

[@hushshot]

Where can i get a pair of the shorts diego is wearing?! They are great!

Who the heck thought glass is the right surface for the floor?!

[@michaellupton335]

Its a specialist and non breakable 'perforated' glass, that allows sweat to run through tiny holes, thus reducing risk of slipping, and negating time wasted for towel boys on the court. The glass is manufactured to be non slip, and as you can see there were no incidents of slipping unlike other court surfaces.

[@nuagacademy1]

Stupid floor, coll also lost matches because he was not comfortable on that glass floor

[@michaellupton335]

Its a specialist and non breakable and 'perforated' glass, that allows sweat to run through tiny holes, thus reducing risk of slipping, and negating time wasted for towel boys on the court. The glass is manufactured to be non slip, and as you can see there were no incidents of slipping unlike other court surfaces.

[@nuagacademy1]

​@michaellupton335 it's meant to do that but hasn't been great. The pros hate playing in it and that should tell you something if the players you are putting up the court for aren't happy with it !

[@tbiffard]

What are the small bags at the front of the court on the ground?

[@shiningshiv]

They are kept there for the players to keep their towels to wipe sweat between games

[@tbiffard]

What year was that introduced? Are they allowed to touch the towels during a game? If it's only between games then what is the point really....

[@georgekrumm1857]

@@tbiffard It was a COVID-era thing originally - I think it was to keep players from wiping directly on the side and back walls the way they traditionally did. It stuck because there has been growing recognition that excess sweat represents a serious safety issue for the players. It isn't only between games. Players can, and often do, request to use the towels when sweat is building up on them, the racket grip or the court. The ref often tells them no if he thinks they are just trying to get a break.

[@Strik3Fr33dom2]

is there something wrong with the court? their movement seems a bit different from the usual games

[@cscoetzee]

Looks like the floor could have been quite slippery.

[@stevehughes1510]

Diego's got the control hasn't he, gliding around, like Ali he's always on the ball.

[@cookesam6]

He does, so effortlessly. Ali just volleys more I think, which is why he can beat elias

[@marcoscampos1110]

Congrats EliasPumaaa

[@niffrig]

The only guy who can really deal with Elias is Farag

[@jacqueshugo7973]

Movement seemed off from both players - no real rallies as a result

[@giannimorselli2900]

Glass floor 🤷‍♂

[@jhwheuer]

When will ABS conceded on that glass floor dogma?

[@georgekrumm1857]

Seriously. Amanda Sobhy should sue them for this nonsense.

[@dallasreid7755]

Probably nothing wrong with the floor. Playing squash outdoors is moronic. Don't forget the humidity in HK which can be controlled indoors. Super high humidity on glass. What could possibly go wrong?

[@michaellupton335]

Its a specialist and non breakable 'perforated' glass, that allows sweat to run through tiny holes, thus reducing risk of slipping, and negating time wasted for towel boys on the court. The glass is manufactured to be non slip, and as you can see there were no incidents of slipping unlike other court surfaces.

[@georgekrumm1857]

​@@michaellupton335 That's all well and good, but is missing the forest for the trees. The floor just isn't right, and it is dangerous. Maybe it would be OK if it was the surface the players practiced on, but it looks like it would make their movement into the shot substantially less explosive, which isn't really what we want.

[@sgno.1ecommercewkshop337]

The engineer who introduced glass flooring should be sacked and never get a job again. How can one even think of glass flooring for squash baffles me. And any idiot country which uses such courts should be banned from hosting in future imo.

[@michaellupton335]

Its a specialist and non breakable 'perforated' glass, that allows sweat to run through tiny holes, thus reducing risk of slipping, and negating time wasted for towel boys on the court. The glass is manufactured to be non slip, and as you can see there were no incidents of slipping unlike other court surfaces.

[@jonathanpeceros1754]

Vamos Diego....tu revancha contra Farag

[@James-sw9vm]

Squash on an ice rink what a stupid match

[@aldabest]

It’s actually the opposite. The court is so grippy that the players are being jarred when they have to make a hard stop. There’s no give to the surface.

[@James-sw9vm]

@@aldabest I don't understand what you wrote

[@nefarious8278]

@@James-sw9vmfloor is too grippy, player decelerated faster into lunges, straining the tendons and muscles more

[@James-sw9vm]

@@nefarious8278 then why do they look like they are slipping? Look at how their feet twist

[@nefarious8278]

@@James-sw9vm mate I was just explaining what he meant cuz you said you didn’t understand

[@Lynntorke]

Ahora te dice “the Peruvian” ??? Faltosos