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Reliance PSA Challenger Tour Men's Champion Duncan Lee (Malaysia) beat Omar El Torkey (Egypt) 3-1 in final
Reliance PSA Challenger Tour Women's Champion Zoe Foo (Malaysia) beat Raifa Yattaqi (Indonesia) 3-1 in final
By Shamseer Jaleel
Malaysian duo Duncan Lee and Zoe Foo were crowned 2025 Reliance PSA
Challenger Open champions after Zoe Foo defeated Raifa Yattaqi from Indonesia and Duncan Lee got the better of Omar El Torkey of Egypt in a fiery encounter in the finals.
The Reliance PSA Challenger Championship 2025, a 6K Men’s/3K Women’s
Challenger event on the PSA Squash Tour, took place recently at Air Force Squash Complex in Ratmalana. Finals and award ceremony took place with Singer Finance PLC CEO Thishan Amarasuriya attending the occasion as Chief Guest.
Third seed, Duncan Lee and unseeded Omar El Torket who downed second seed home favourite Ravindu Laksiri in quarter finals were the two stand out performers at the top of the Men’s game, and look set to enjoy a fierce fight for the top position.
Omar made a perfect start to the match, taking a 1-0 lead at 11/6.
Malaysian national Champion Duncan fought back strongly to win the second set 12/10 to tally the set scores at 1-1. Duncan kept the momentum to win the last two games at 11/3 and 11/4 to take the 2025 Reliance PSA Challenger Men’s Open title.
Women’s open final saw fifth seed Zoe Foo being given a tough fight by Rafia Yattaqi. Zoe took the first set quite easily at 11/6 before conceding the second set at 11/7. Zoe managed to take the last two sets although the last set went down to the wire at 13/11 to win the 2025 Reliance PSA Challenger Women’s Open title.
The tournament was organised by Sri Lanka Squash under the guidance of
Professional Squash Association (PSA) and sponsored by Reliance logistics with participation of 27 participants from 10 countries.
Reliance Logistics was the main sponsor while Rajat Agro commodities, Sana Lanka Trading, SP Agro, Venus Commodities and Amro sugars supported as co-sponsors. PEO TV was the official broadcast partner for the tournament.
