Cleveland Classic Semis: The Stats & How to Watch Live

The semi-finals of the 2023 Cleveland Classic take place at the Cleveland Racquet Club today from 16:30 (GMT-5), with two exciting matches in store.

Hong Kong’s Tomato Ho will look to keep her giant-killing run going when she takes on a resurgent Georgina Kennedy, before No.6 seed Olivia Fiechter takes on the unseeded Olivia Clyne in an all-American battle.

You can watch all the action live from the Cleveland Racquet Club on SQUASHTV.

You can also keep up with the live scores from the event here.

Here’s the Order of Play for tonight
(All times are local GMT-5)

Tomato Ho v Georgina Kennedy

The opening match of the evening sees Ho and Kennedy lock horns for only the second time on the PSA Tour following Kennedy’s comfortable 3-0 victory at the Manchester Open last year.

World No.36 Ho is a surprise semi-finalist after fighting through to the last four from an unseeded position, toppling Egypt’s Hana Ramadan, No.4 seed Sarah-Jane Perry and No.7 seed Tesni Evans along the way.

Kennedy, meanwhile, beat France’s Melissa Alves to reach the last eight where her opponent, No.2 seed Amanda Sobhy, was forced to retire from the match during the second game due to a back injury.

After health problems earlier in the season, Kennedy is in a rich vein of form having won the Carol Weymuller Open last month and she will now look to reach her second PSA final of the season.

Meanwhile, Ho will line up in the semi-finals of a PSA event for the first time since her title win at the Calgary CFO Consulting Services PSA Women’s Squash Week event in March 2022.

While the smart money will be on Kennedy to take the win, Ho has undoubtedly shown her qualities so far this week in Cleveland and has all the tools in her arsenal to cause an upset.

Olivia Fiechter v Olivia Clyne

Spectators at the Cleveland Racquet Club are sure to enjoy what promises to be an intriguing second semi-final, with two American ladies going hell for leather in a bid to reach the title decider.

Whilst Fiechter is the higher-ranked player, it’s Clyne who boasts a 100 per cent win record over her compatriot, having beaten Fiechter 3-1 at both the Calgary Women’s Squash Week event and the Edinburgh Sports Club Open, both in 2019.

A lot has changed for Fiechter since though. The 27-year-old was ranked outside of the world’s top 50 when both those matches took place but has stormed up the rankings in recent years to sit inside the world’s top 10.

Fiechter will also be full of confidence after dispatching the in-form No.1 seed Joelle King in the previous round. However with that match clocking in at 52 minutes, she was on court for almost twice as long as Clyne, whose match with Nour El Tayeb was brought to a premature end due to an injury to the Egyptian, with Clyne a game down at the time.

The less physical nature of that match could play into Clyne’s hands and she now has an opportunity to reach her first PSA final since the Detroit Pro Classic in 2019.

Fiechter has reached two finals in her last three events though and will be looking to improve that record further when she takes on Clyne tonight – tune in to SQUASHTV to watch all the action unfold.