Squash in the Land Finals: Preview & How to Watch Live

There are two quality matches in store in tonight’s Squash in the Land Presented by Greater Cleveland Squash finals, with play getting under way at 14:00 (GMT-4).

Up first is the Bronze-level men’s final where Mexico’s Leonel Cardenas and Spain’s Bernat Jaume will both aim to secure their biggest titles on the PSA World Tour.

Then the top two seeds in the Silver-level women’s event – England’s Georgina Kennedy and Egypt’s Nour El Tayeb – will go head-to-head.

Watch both matches live on SQUASHTV.

Here’s the Order of Play for tonight

(All times are local GMT-4)

Leonel Cardenas v Bernat Jaume

World No.34 Leonel Cardenas and World No.58 Bernat Jaume are both one win away from their biggest titles on the PSA World Tour.

The pair have met just once before, with that clash coming earlier this season at the U.S. Open presented by TRUIST, with Cardenas coming from a game down to beat the Spaniard in four games.

Both players have scored a number of upsets to reach this stage. Cardenas, seeded at No.6 for the event, opened his tournament with a victory over England’s Finnlay Withington before claiming one of his biggest wins to date with victory over top seed Eain Yow Ng in the quarter-finals, following an epic five-game battle totalling 92 minutes.

The 24-year-old backed that up superbly, coming out on top in another five-game tussle in the semi-finals, this time beating Scotland’s No.3 seed Greg Lobban.

Jaume’s road to the final has also been far from easy. The unseeded 28-year-old didn’t receive a bye into round two, so has played one match more than Cardenas, beating Emyr Evans in the first round.

He then overcame former World No.3 Omar Mosaad in round two, before beating No.4 seed Nathan Lake in the last eight.

The biggest win came over Egyptian shot-maker Youssef Ibrahim, with Jaume overturning a one-game deficit to pull through in four games against the No.2 seed – the biggest win of his career.

It’s been a gruelling run to the final for both men and tonight’s final has the potential for plenty of drama – make sure you tune in to SQUASHTV to watch the action.

Georgina Kennedy v Nour El Tayeb

The women’s final will be a battle between the top two seeds as Nour El Tayeb looks to extend her 3-1 lead over Georgina Kennedy on the pair’s head-to-head record.

Their last meeting went the way of Kennedy, however that did come at last season’s CIB PSA World Tour Finals over a best-of-three games format – the Englishwoman has never beaten El Tayeb in a best of five clash.

Kennedy always turns up with her best squash in Cleveland though – the 26-year-old has won both the 2023 and 2022 Cleveland Classics.

Kennedy had the tougher semi-final match. After comfortable wins over Ainaa Amani and Lucy Beecroft in her opening two fixtures, Kennedy was put through her paces by Malaysian No.4 seed Sivasangari Subramaniam, eventually taking it 11-9 in a gripping fifth game.

Meanwhile, El Tayeb has cruised through to the title decider, beating Latvia’s Ineta Hopton and Wales’ Emily Whitlock – both in less than half an hour – before dismantling in-form American Olivia Weaver last night.

El Tayeb has already lifted silverware twice this season – at the South Western Open and Malaysia Cup – and is aiming to win three PSA titles in the same campaign for the first time since the 2019-20 season.

For Kennedy, it’s the longest she’s gone without a trophy since 2018, but she’s in fine form after reaching the semi-finals of the Windy City Open last time out, so tonight promises to be a closely-fought contest.

Watch it all on SQUASHTV.