I recently put together two videos for the Squash Source YouTube channel going over the squash rackets and shoes worn by the top 10 men’s and women’s players.
Men
Note: links are to the player pages on Squash Source and open in new tabs.
- Mostafa Asal (0:05)
- Diego Elias (0:28)
- Mohamed Elshorbagy (1:04)
- Ali Farag (1:23)
- Paul Coll (2:12)
- Marwan Elshorbagy (2:52)
- Tarek Momen (4:07)
- Victor Crouin (4:38)
- Mazen Hesham (5:22)
- Fares Dessouky (5:43)
Jump to top 10 women.
Video Transcript
Do an equipment report. Let’s goooooo.
We’re going to look at the top 10.
Mostafa Asal everyone’s favorite player. Let’s go.
Okay. Eye squash shoes, blue color today. Sometimes he goes with two different colors but they’re both blue. And of course the Tecnifibre Suprem Curv.
125 I think.
Yeah, that’s the 1 25.
All right. Diego let’s gooooo. Vamos.
Diego Canary Wharf.
Oh sorry Diego.
He’s got the Asics Gel Rocket 9 I think.
Yeah Asics Gel Rocket 9.
His racket is the Dunlop Sonic Core Elite 135. Actually Dunlop advertise him as using this frame the Ultimate but I think he actually uses the Elite because if you look at some close-up photos of his stringing pattern and he’s got the open one. So I think he’s probably using the Elite but he’s a Dunlop Sonic Core guy.
Mohamed Elshorbagyyyyyyyyy
Let’s see here he’s got his Tecnifibre
The X-Top 125.
And his shoes
Gel Rocket 9. Yup. Yup. Asics Gel Rocket 9. Same as Diego.
We’re back! Let’s go! Ali Farag number four let’s go
There we go. Let’s see here. We got his photo up already I’m ready to rumble today. We’ve got the Dunlop
Sonic core
Revelation Pro I think.
Dunlop Sonic Core Revelation Pro let’s go. There he is and maybe that’s a clue to his shoes right there. Let’s see.
Let’s see on these shoes.
So cuddly.
I think he might be using the Fastball 3s actually. My shoes. Potentially. Let’s see if we can get a better angle.
These guys right here Asics Gel Fastball 3. I used these shoes for like a year so they look really familiar. You can see the top how they got those little slices on ’em. Look like melon slices. It’s got to be Fastball 3. Let’s goooo.
Next Paul Cole. Let’s go.
Paul Cole.
Where’s he at?
Aww nice he’s always got huge eyes but he rarely has a clown nose.
Where’s old
Paul Coll, where are you??
Bruh he won? That’s awesome. Okay okay right he’s got these new Adidas.
Adidas I forget what they’re called hang on.
Adidas Crazyflight. That’s Crazyflight man. Yep. Oh we got to put a photo of Paul in here…
Adidas…
And his racket is the usual Head racket. Let’s see if we can get a better shot. There’s a good shot. Good-ish.
…
Hey Graphene 360+ Speed 120 Slimbody.
Same one as this. Yep. Okay next
Marwan Elshorbagy.
Mohamed has listed his birthplace as Alexandria, Egypt and Marwan just Alexandria. Interesting.
Marwan where are you at? No no no no no no no no no.
All right well he’s in the background there.
Well the racket has got to be the Airshaft no not the Airshaft. What do you call it? X-Top. Tecnifibre X-Top.
Tecnifibre Carboflex X-Top 130.
His signature frame. Oh hola. Hola señor.
And the shoes I think he looks like he’s wearing the Gel Rocket 10s but let’s see if we can get a better
photo.
Yeah bro, let’s go.
Where’s Marwan?
Marwan where are you?
Maybe he’s out of the tournament.
Let’s see what else has Marwan been in recently?
Black Ball.
Let’s see. Ooh sorry kitty. Jeez I just whacked you in the head I’m so sorry. Let’s see if kitty can help.
Can you find Marwan?
Kitty does not want Marwan.
Here he is, kitty. What do you think? Yes sir: Asics Gel Rocket 10, let’s goooo.
Sorry about that kitty.
These guys riiiight here. Asics Gel Rocket 10.
Yeah. It’s gotta be that.
Tarek Momen!
There he is…
Here we go. Luckily Tarek Momen doesn’t change very much, I appreciate you man. He’s got his Harrow thingy. What is it, Harrow Response?
Ah sorry. Harrow Reflex Signature Edition. There he is.
Harrow Reflex…
And his shoes are the Salming…
Uh what do you call them, Vipers?
Viper 5.
These guys right here.
I need a photo of. Viper 5.
Number 8, Victor Crouin.
I didn’t realize he had gotten that high. Whoa.
From Marseille living in Toulon. Toulon?…Toulon? Oops not Tarek. Hang on.
Crouin.
Okay It looks like the Dunlop Sonic Core Revelation Pro.
Sorry it’s called the Pro Lite. My bad, my B, my B. There’s the Pro Light.
And his shoes. Interesting.
What are they?
Ooh la la.
Teuton shoes and I don’t have these on Squash Source. What?
Wish it dream it, do it. Let’s go. Yeah this is it, I gotta post these. There he is. Victor Crouin.
My man.
Next!
Mazen Hesham.
Number nine.
Well he’s kind of in the background there but I could see he’s got the
Eye racket. I forget what that one’s called.
Eye V-Lite 125 Pro.
And what else? Shoes are the same as
I think it was Marwan Uh the Asics Gel Rocket 10.
These babies right here.
And finally, number 10 Fares Dessouky.
You little man. Look at that stud.
Fares Dessouky where are you?
Looks like we’re going to have to go to the Black Ball Open here.
His racket is the X-Top again. I think it’s the X-Top 1 25. Let’s see.
This guy.
And his shoes are some Adidas.
That was tough one but I think he’s playing with probably these guys,
they’re called Adidas Crazyflight Bounce 3. It just looks like the kind of sole here. It looks like that in
one of these photos. In this photo they look like they’re just having a nice little chat here. Talking about their shoes I think it’s probably these guys. Adidas Crazyflight Bounce 3 from a while back.
That’s it for now. I’m stopping at the top 10. Let me know if you want to see the next 10 or you want to see the women. Let me know in the comments below the video. I’ll see you next time. Bye!
Women
Note: links are to the player pages on Squash Source and open in new tabs.
- Nour El Sherbini (0:15)
- Nouran Gohar (2:17)
- Hania El Hammamy (3:06)
- Joelle King (4:31)
- Amanda Sobhy (6:04)
- Nour El Tayeb (7:30)
- Gina Kennedy (8:42)
- Olivia Fiechter (10:10)
- Nele Gilis (11:31)
- Sarah-Jane Perry (12:44)
Jump to top 10 men.
Transcript
Top 10 women’s squash equipment. Let’s go!
Thanks Squash Info. We’re going to use Squash Info for this one.
Let’s find the rankings.
Here we go. Let’s start at the top. Startin’ at the top. Nour El Sherbini. C’mon Sherbini.
There she is.
World champ again. I can’t believe I’m getting to watch Sherbini play. And I got to watch Nicol David.
It’s crazy these two how dominant they are. Let’s see. Okay. Let’s look at the winning moment. Oh poor Gohar. I’m sorry.
Okay. Actually let’s find a better photo.
Here we go. Well, it’s the Tecnifibre X-Top 125 NS. The NS is for Sherbini.
Here it is her signature racket.
X-Top 125 NS.
NS: Nour Sherbini.
That’s the one. Okay and on the shoes, uh you know this is uh interesting. Let’s see here.
I need a better shot of the shoes so we’re going to back out of this baby and find something a little different.
Okay. Asics. She’s changed shoes.
It might be these, but I’m going to keep looking, because it doesn’t look quite right.
It’s funny how many photos of her are just facing the camera straight on.
Okay here’s a good photo. Ah, Marie Stephan. She used to play in Philly.
So I think it’s these, Asics Gel Blade 8, because I can see it has this sort of dark blue in the heel or the arch. And it’s also got this like dark blue line across the tongue like that. I bet you that’s what that is. The color looks a little different in this photo maybe but that’s my guess. I think it’s probably Asics Gel Blade 8.
All right we started off, we started off with a challenge, but we’re one for one, undefeated on the year. Actually that’s not true. In the last video I got Paul Coll’s racket wrong which is a pretty big mistake.
Thanks to everyone who pointed that one out. It’s okay, even Squash Source makes mistake. Okay. Next!
Nouran Gohar from Cairo.
Let’s see.
Let’s take this one maybe. That’s hard to see, this photo. Meh.
Let’s go to the finals.
Rawrr! That’s the semi’s I guess.
Okay. Gohar where are you?
Alright.
Gohar on the left.
She has the Tecnifibre Carboflex Airshaft 130 and she has the Asics Gel Tactic. These shoes from back in 2019. She’s still on her old-school shoes.
Yeah she hasn’t actually changed in a while. Here she is at the British Open: same racket, same shoes, no problem. Maybe I should start with Squash Source previous photo to find out my stuff more easily.
So now uh let’s see, number three in the world, Hania. Here she is. Hania. So cute.
Okay and here she is. Oh she’s got my shoes! I’m so excited. These are Asics Gel Fastball. It’s gotta be. I just bought a pair of these. I love ’em. Hang on hang on hang on.
So here she is. She’s a Fastball 3 fanatic. And let me show you this color scheme. Here we go. Digital Grape… and white. I just bought these babies from Japan.
There she is. And then she’s got her X-Top racket. I think she uses the 125 but I can’t remember exactly.
Let’s see if I can find a photo of Hania. That’s a good one. Okay so well here she is. Let’s just find out what she wore last time. I mean what she played with last time.
Oh! I have the Airshaft, I have not updated it. So, oh my God, Squash Source must be updated with the new link.
There we go. We make updates on the fly in these videos. X-Top 125 NS. Let’s see. Here it is again.
I believe she uses the NS version. Of course Sherbini does seeing as she is the NS in NS. I don’t have a good enough photo here but I’m pretty sure she uses the NS. I’m going to go with that. Let’s say that. Anyone got a better idea, you put it on the comments alright? Cool.
Okay next!
Joelle. New Zealand.
Cambridge, New Zealand.
And where’s Joelle?
Where’s Joelle at? I know she made it pretty far here. No that’s Sherbini, nevermind. Nevermind, uh…
Nope. Nope. Yup. Okay. She’s got the Asics Gel Tactics still. Oh you know what I said I was going to do? I said I was going to look at Squash Source first.
Oh no she changed! Oh my God. Omigod. Oh God I really haven’t updated Joelle in a while.
Whew! Okay, that’s fine. We can do this. Joelle has got Asics Gel Tactic.
These babies I’m pretty sure. White and pure silver. And then her Head racket, I think she uses the 135. Let’s see.
You know, I’m not actually sure, because she used to use the um this one, 360+ Speed 135 Slimbody.
And the updated one of that looks like this but this has this orange kind of tangerine-ish kind of color there and I don’t think that’s what she’s got here. She may be playing with this one. She may be playing with the Speed 120. This is Paul Coll’s prior racket. Although I can’t see the kind of gold lettering in this photo either.
No my bad, my bad, my bad. My bad. You can see in this photo she’s got that kinda, that orange lettering here on the on the side so it’s this one. My bad. Head Speed 135 Slimbody 2023 version. Let’s go!
Next! Amanda Sobhy! USA!
Residence: Philadelphia, but she’s… her heart is in Sea Cliff.
Uh, okay, um, where are we? Amanda Sobhy…
Sobhy.
Also a Head player, I do believe. Okay. So I think she’s going to have her new racket, new Head racket, let’s see. Got to get those new rackets out in the world, bros. The Autexic…
Auxetic or autistic racket.
Auxetic. Where is it?
Oh well here’s the photo. Nevermind. That’s too easy. So she uses the Head Radical 120 Slimbody.
This one.
And uh Teuton shoes. Teuton. Is it BooStability? Let’s see.
It seems to be a color that I don’t have on the site because it’s like white with this red bottom but you see it’s kinda all white so it’s not this one. It’s not this one. Whoa that’s Amanda’s foot right there. That’s gotta be.
Here we go: AllCourt AC-1. This is the same one that Victor Crouin was wearing.
This one look see? I only got the blue bad boy up here but I got to put the um, this one’s called AllCourt. Yup yup yup yup yup yup. Yup it’s this one. New! New! Update! Okay.
Next.
Nour El Tayeb. She’s back baby. From Cairo.
She’s back. She had a baby and she’s back baby.
Okay where is she?
Hmmm, I can’t find her.
What happened?
She lost in the quarterfinals to Nouran Gohar. Okay.
Let’s see, where are you Gohar? Gohar or go home.
That’s gotta be. I bet you Nour El Tayeb is right over here in this corner. Okay.
Or maybe not. Nevermind.
Here we go.
Okay! Asics Gel — oh sorry my bad. My bad. Salming, Salming Viper I think. Salming Viper SL or something.
You should always check Squash Source first.
Viper SL white and black. Let’s go. That’s the one. And of course her Dunlop signature frame, the Reve-something 125 I can never remember if it’s revelation or revolution or reve-something.
Sonic Core Revelation. Revelation 125. It’s a revelation!
Yeah.
Okay. Next.
Gina Kennedy.
From Beckenham, Kent.
Oh sorry, from London. London?
Okay where’s Gina Kennedy?
Here she is.
Ooh she’s got the same Teuton shoes as Sobhy. These babies: All Court AC-1.
And her racket — I think she uses the same one as Joelle King.
Mmm? So maybe this one.
It’s hard to tell. It’s all black.
Here’s a good look.
Sort of. I mean it just looks all black, man. How am I supposed to tell? How am I supposed to tell? It could be the Paul Coll one. Who knows. It could be this guy.
It could be this, well probably not.
It could be this guy this guy. Paul Coll. I don’t know man.
Let’s have a look at the Manchester Open, which was the next tournament.
That’s a great photo. Ugggh. Working hard.
Okay, uh, where are you, Georgina? Georgina Kennedy please. Alert.
Okay. No problem. You see the little tangerine deal here? Yeah same one as Joelle King.
The Head Speed 135 Slimbody. Oh thank God Head made their names simpler. Okay next. Oh wait what about the shoes? No, we did the shoes. We did it. Teuton. We did it man.
Okay next, my buddy Fiechter. My buddy from New York? What?
I thought that was going to say Philadelphia. Did not know that. Okay. Okay. No problem.
Let’s see, I happen to remember she lost to Nele. Alright so Olivia here on the left has got her Asics Gel Tactics.
Probably these deals.
“Whiet.” Oops.
Oh sorry. I meant white and periwinkle blue.
Olivia always was a periwinkle blue sort of gal. Yeah it’s gotta be that and then she uses the non-Slimbody — man, Head sponsors like a lot of women. And men. Let’s go. Okay. So she has the non-Slimbody jam I think.
I think she uses the 120? She uses the Speed 120. Ah, she’s she’s gone back and forth. Oh wait, no she hasn’t. Speed 120. Okay, okay, okay, fine. So the Speed 120 is this guy and it’s got this little lime green and put the lime in the Head coconut and it should be her racket. Can’t totally tell if that’s it but you know what? Prove me wrong. I think it’s the lime green guy. I think it’s ahhh I think it’s the 120 Slimbody. Let’s go!
Okay next. Fiechter! Ciao.
We got Nele Gilis.
Oh she’ll be mad if I mispronounce her home.
I’m not even going to try.
Her birthplace.
You know what? Let’s learn a little something.
Mol?
It doesn’t actually, doesn’t actually give me anything except it’s a logistics hub. Was Nele Gilis born in a logistics hub? Let’s see.
Something like that. Anyway, onward. Let’s go. Oh sorry it’s not augh sorry my bad that’s not she’s not from the Netherlands, she’s from uh, uh Belgium.
Ahhhh much better. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. I’m sorry. So sorry. Okay this is a municipality. Mol.
That’s what my speaker’s telling me.
Okay cool. That’s handy. She’s right there. Okay I believe those are the, what do you call those, the same ones that Sherbini had?
I think these. Asics Gel Blade 8.
Yeah that looks right. Let’s call it Asics Gel Blade 8 white and pure silver. And of course she has her Stellar Assault.
Here she is. Since day one she’s been a fan.
Alright and number 10, Sarah-Jane Perry.
Where are you, SJ?
Sarah-Jane where are you?
Well, we might have to go to Manchester.
I don’t know why this makes me laugh.
Uh, okay. Oh, sorry. That’s good focus though. Okay. Manchester!
Oh God I’m getting distracted by all these photos. Look, that’s so cute.
Nour’s daughter. She’s so cute.
Okay Manchester. Focus!
Where’s Sarah-Jane Perry?
I’m getting so distracted. It’s good to see Laura Massaro back.
Okay focus!
You just know that was a controversial call for the ref. Anyway we found SJ let’s go. Ah, it looks like it went the way of Watanabe.
Okay, let’s find a more athletic photo than that one.
Here we go.
Well here’s her racket: Dunlop Sonic Core, darn it, what’s it called, Revelation Pro Lite? I can never remember. I think it’s Revelation Pro Lite.
Dunlop Sonic Core Revelation Pro Lite. I was never wrong or even confused.
There it is. That’s the one. Okay.
So she’s got her Asics Gel Tactic.
These babies right here. Black and white.
Yeah. Let’s go. Black and white. I think that’s it.
Yeah let’s go with that.
All right. We did it. We did the top 10.
Thanks for sticking with me. Let me know what you want to see next on Squash Source videos.
I got some shoe reviews coming your way. We can maybe do some more equipment reports. Let me know what you want to see.
I’ll see you next time. Bye!
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