PSA Moscow Tour: Tournament Preview

The third event of the week on the Challenger Tour begins on Saturday 24 July at Squash Club Moscow, with the Challenger 3 level PSA Moscow Tour taking place.

The event has allowed only domestic entrants, with only those currently living on Russian soil being allowed to participate. Two foreign players, in Ukraine’s Valeriy Fedoruk and Kazakhstan’s Kairat Baidauletov.

The Ukrainian is the No.2 seed for the tournament, behind only top seed Vladislav Titov, the Russian No.1 and World No.191. Four juniors are amongst the top eight seeds as well, in Makar Esin, Petr Smekhov, Mikhail Skurikhin and Igor Sivkov.

The event takes place from Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 July at Squash Club Moscow and you can follow the PSA Challenger Tour on Twitter and Facebook for daily updates from the event.

First Round Draw: PSA Moscow Tour
[1] Vladislav Titov (RUS) v Alexandr Yuhnevich (RUS)
Ivan Borodin (RUS) v [5] Mikhail Skurikhin (RUS)
[8] Alexander Rozhanskiy (RUS) v Ilya Grabovsky (RUS)
Alexandr Zhukov (RUS) v [4] Petr Smekhov (RUS)
[3] Makar Esin (RUS) v Timofey Aleshin (RUS)
Maxim Kostyaev (RUS) v [6] Kairat Baidauletov (KAZ)
[7] Igor Sivkov (RUS) v Andrey Uskov (RUS)
Gorev Sergey (RUS) v [2] Valeriy Fedoruk (UKR)