2019 Women's PSA World Tour Finals

PSA World Tour Finals
1st Women's PSA World Tour Finals
LocationEgypt Cairo, Egypt
VenueMall of Arabia
Date(s)9–14 June 2019
Website
worldtourfinals.com
Prize money$160,000
Results
Champion Raneem El Weleily (EGY)
Runner-up Camille Serme (FRA)
Semi-finalists Nour El Tayeb (EGY)
 Nouran Gohar (EGY)
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The 2019 CIB Women's PSA World Series Finals was the first women's edition of the PSA World Tour Finals (Prize money : $160,000) after the renaming of PSA World Series. The top 8 players in the 2018–19 PSA World Tour qualified for the event. The event took place at Mall of Arabia, Cairo in Egypt from 9–14 June 2019.

It was the first edition under the PSA World Tour Finals label after the PSA renamed PSA World Series to current PSA World Tour Finals. CIB sponsored the event.

Egyptian Raneem El Weleily won its first PSA Finals title after defeating unexpected French finalist Camille Serme 3–2 in the Final. El Weleily went 2–0 down, but managed to turn it around to win 3–2.[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 $160,000 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 2018–19 PSA World Tour standings qualifies to Finals.


Top 16 Women's World Tour Standings 2018–19[2]
Rank Player Tournaments
Played 		CHN
China 		USA
United States 		USA
United States 		USA
United States 		HKG
Hong Kong 		USA
United States 		USA
United States 		USA
United States 		EGY
Egypt 		USA
United States 		NED
Netherlands 		MAC
Macau 		EGY
Egypt 		ENG
England 		ENG
England 		Total
Points
 
1 Egypt Raneem El Weleily* 10 1750 805 2750 – 1810 1810 – 1270 1750 – 1750 – 2750 – 675 17120
2 Egypt Nour El Sherbini* 9 700 – 1810 – 675 2750 – 3175 1150 – 1150 – 675 – 675 12760
3 Egypt Nour El Tayeb 12 700 – 410 875 675 1100 875 2090 260 – 700 – 675 490 1100 9950
4 France Camille Serme 10 1150 300 1100 – 675 675 – 1270 430 – 700 – 1100 – 1810 9210
5 New Zealand Joelle King* 10 260 300 410 – 2750 1100 – 780 700 – – – 675 1225 675 8875
6 Egypt Nouran Gohar 9 430 – 250 – 1100 675 – 780 700 – – – 1810 300 2750 8795
7 England Sarah-Jane Perry 12 430 1225 675 575 1100 – – 475 260 215 430 – 675 300 1100 7460
8 Wales Tesni Evans 13 260 – 1100 215 410 410 575 780 260 130 430 – 410 805 410 6195
9 United States Amanda Sobhy 11 – 182.5 675 215 410 410 – 475 – 875 430 – 1100 490 410 5672.5
10 England Alison Waters 13 260 300 410 350 410 675 350 475 260 – 260 – 250 300 410 4710
11 England Laura Massaro 11 260 490 675 – 250 410 – 475 430 – 430 – 410 300 250 4380
12 Hong Kong Annie Au 9 – 490 410 – 250 410 – 780 160 – – 875 410 – 410 4195
13 Egypt Salma Hany 12 260 182.5 410 350 250 675 – 290 260 – – 130 410 182.5 250 3650
14 India Joshna Chinappa 10 430 – 410 215 410 410 – 290 430 – – 350 250 – 410 3605
15 England Victoria Lust 10 260 – 250 130 410 410 350 475 – 575 – – 250 – 410 3520
16 Malaysia Nicol David 11 430 300 410 – 250 410 – 475 160 – 260 – 250 182.5 250 3377.5

Bold – Players qualified for the final
(*) – Winners of Platinum's tournaments automatically qualifies for Finals.


Seeds

  1. Egypt Raneem El Weleily
  2. Egypt Nour El Sherbini
  3. Egypt Nour El Tayeb
  4. France Camille Serme
  5. New Zealand Joelle King
  6. Egypt Nouran Gohar
  7. England Sarah-Jane Perry
  8. Wales Tesni Evans

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
9 June 19:00  Raneem El Weleily (EGY)  Tesni Evans (WAL) 11–4, 11–6
9 June 20:00  Camille Serme (FRA)  Joelle King (NZL) 12–14, 12–10, 12–10
10 June 20:00  Raneem El Weleily (EGY)  Camille Serme (FRA) 10–12, 11–7, 11–5
10 June 21:00  Joelle King (NZL)  Tesni Evans (WAL) 9–11, 11–7, 8–11
11 June 21:00  Raneem El Weleily (EGY)  Joelle King (NZL) 11–7, 11–7
12 June 19:00  Camille Serme (FRA)  Tesni Evans (WAL) 11–5, 13–11

Standings

Pos Team Pld W L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Raneem El Weleily (EGY) 3 3 0 6 1 +5 11 Advancing to Semifinals
2  Camille Serme (FRA) 3 2 1 5 3 +2 8
3  Tesni Evans (WAL) 3 1 2 2 5 −3 3
4  Joelle King (NZL) 3 0 3 2 6 −4 2
Source: PSA World Tour Finals

Group B

Date Time Player 1 Player 2 Score
9 June 21:00  Nour El Sherbini (EGY)  Sarah-Jane Perry (ENG) 8–11, 9–11
10 June 19:00  Nour El Tayeb (EGY)  Nouran Gohar (EGY) 11–4, 7–11, 11–8
11 June 19:00  Nour El Sherbini (EGY)  Nour El Tayeb (EGY) 11–5, 11–7
11 June 20:00  Nouran Gohar (EGY)  Sarah-Jane Perry (ENG) 11–8, 11–9
12 June 20:00  Nour El Sherbini (EGY)  Nouran Gohar (EGY) 11–6, 5–11, 7–11
12 June 21:00  Nour El Tayeb (EGY)  Sarah-Jane Perry (ENG) 11–0, 11–5

Standings

Pos Team Pld W L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Nouran Gohar (EGY) 3 2 1 5 3 +2 8 Advancing to Semifinals
2  Nour El Tayeb (EGY) 3 2 1 4 3 +1 7
3  Nour El Sherbini (EGY) 3 1 2 3 4 −1 5
4  Sarah-Jane Perry (ENG) 3 1 2 2 4 −2 4
Source: PSA World Tour Finals

Knockout stage

Semi finals (13 June) Final (14 June)
              
1  Raneem El Weleily (EGY) 11 9 11
3  Nour El Tayeb (EGY) 9 11 1
1  Raneem El Weleily (EGY) 3 8 11 11 11
4  Camille Serme (FRA) 11 11 7 4 6
6  Nouran Gohar (EGY) 18 9
4  Camille Serme (FRA) 20 11
2019 Women's PSA World Tour Finals winner
Egypt
Raneem El Weleily
First title

Semifinal

To the best of three games.

Date Time Player 1 Player 2 Score
13 June 19:00  Raneem El Weleily (EGY)  Nour El Tayeb (EGY) 11–9, 9–11, 11–1
13 June 20:30  Nouran Gohar (EGY)  Camille Serme (FRA) 18–20, 9–11

Final

To the best of five games.

Date Time Player 1 Player 2 Score
14 June 19:30  Raneem El Weleily (EGY)  Camille Serme (FRA) 3–11, 8–11, 11–7, 11–4, 11–6

See also

References

  1. ^ "World Tour Finals: Finals Day - As It Happens". psaworldtour.com. 14 June 2019.
  2. ^ PSA Women's World Tour Standings