Hey everyone, here are some squash equipment updates from the men’s 2019 World Championships in Qatar. This is just a partial list — there’s so many photos and so many new players that I haven’t had time to go through them all, but I’ll try to update the post further after hitting publish. The photos are via the Qatar Squash gallery.
Spotted
Youssef Soliman busted out an older-model Prince Pro Sovereign 650:
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Youssef Soliman
Racket: Prince Pro Sovereign 650
Shoes: Asics Gel Fastball 3
Saurav Ghosal moved on to the Salming Kobra 2s:
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Saurav Ghosal
Racket: Head Graphene 360 Speed 120 Blue
Shoes: Salming Kobra 2
Raphael Kandra is wearing some new Victor shoes called P9210s:
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Raphael Kandra
Racket: Victor RTW Concave RK
Shoes: Victor P9210
The Qatari Abdullah Al Tamimi was wearing Asics Gel Blast FFs:
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Abdulla Al-Tamimi
Racket: Harrow Spark
Shoes: Asics Blast FF
Alan Clyne got the Adidas Stabil Bounce:
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Alan Clyne
Racket: Harrow Vapor
Shoes: Adidas Stabil Bounce
Abouelghar switched to the new Teuton BooStability model:
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Mohamed Abouelghar
Racket: Prince Pro Rebel 950
Shoes: Teuton Squash Shoes
James Willstrop switched to the Adidas Stabil Bounce (thanks Colin and Rod):
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: James Willstrop
Racket: Unsquashable James Willstrop Autograph
Shoes: Adidas Stabil Bounce
Ben Coleman appears to have a new Ashaway, possibly a signature (thanks Lloyd and Dave):
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Ben Coleman
Shoes: Asics Gel Blade 7
Newbies
These players are making their first appearance on Squash Source.
Benjamin Aubert plays with the Tecnifibre Carboflex 125 X-Speed and wears the Asics Gel Tactic.
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Mahesh Mangaonkar has an X-Speed 130 and some old Asics Gel Fireblasts.
Photo via Qatar Squash →
This guy is Aqeel Rehman. I had never heard of him but he’s from Austria and is the 10-time Austrian champ. He plays with the Oliver Apex 300 and wears the seriously old-school Asics Gel Blast 5.
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Arturo Salazar has the David F**king Palmer and Salming Race X shoes:
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Iker Pajares Bernabeu
Racket: Unsquashable Y-Tec Pro
Shoes: Salming Hawk
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Syed Azlan Amjad
Racket: Tecnifibre Carboflex 125 S
Shoes: Salming Viper 5
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Ryosei Kobayashi
Racket: Tecnifibre Suprem Curv 125
Shoes: Mizunos but not sure which model
Photo via Qatar Squash →
Player: Tayyab Aslam
Racket: Head Graphene Touch Radical Slimbody 135
Shoes: Salming Kobra 2
Colin says
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Not Qatar tournament, but since no there’s no channel Vas tournament page yet, looks like Tom Richards is using a different racquet than previously, think it’s a Karakal
Colin says
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Just saw this was posted on the Karakal racquet page here. Sorry!
Nick says
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Good work! 🙂
Minor correction: Abdulla Al-Tamimi is playing with the Harrow Spark https://www.squashsource.com/harrow-spark/
Pierre says
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Whoops thanks Nick!