An all-South African final featuring the event’s top two seeds will bring the Central Gauteng Open to a climax at Parkview Squash Club in Johannesburg.
After a courageous run in the new PSA World Tour Challenger 5 event which included upsets over two seeds, 46-year-old tournament promoter Craig van der Wath finally bowed out in the semi-finals when he lost 11-7, 11-8, 11-6 to second-seeded South African Clinton Leeuw.
An impressive display by unheralded South African Thoboki Mohohlo also came to an end in the other semi when the unranked 22-year-old went down to top seed Shaun le Roux.
US-born Mohohlo upset fifth seed Christo Potgieter in the quarter-finals – but favourite Le Roux (pictured) was too strong in the next round, winning 11-5, 11-7, 13-11.
Semi-finals:
[1] Shaun le Roux (RSA) bt Thoboki Mohohlo (RSA) 11-5, 11-7, 13-11
[2] Clinton Leeuw (RSA) bt Craig van der Wath (RSA) 11-7, 11-8, 11-6
Quarter-finals:
[1] Shaun le Roux (RSA) bt Rodney Durbach (RSA) 11-6, 11-6, 11-9
Thoboki Mohohlo (RSA) bt [5] Christo Potgieter (RSA) 9-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-8
Craig van der Wath (RSA) bt [3] Aamir Malik Khan (UAE) 11-6, 11-4, 6-11, 11-3
[2] Clinton Leeuw (RSA) bt Panos Hadjiphilippou (CYP) 11-3, 11-2, 11-3
