Gaultier into worlds semis
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Gregory Gaultier, perhaps the unluckiest player never to become squash world champion, moved closer to atonement with another fine performance, carrying him into the semifinals in Manchester on Friday.
Gaultier has three times been worlds runner-up and had five match points in one of those finals; now he is only one win from another worlds final after a straight-games win over Daryl Selby, his fourth in a row.
“I am in the best shape of my life,” the second-seeded Frenchman reckoned after a 11-7, 11-4, 12-10 success over the 13th-seeded Englishman.
It lasted 60 minutes but was sufficiently economical to suggest he will remain in good enough shape for tougher tests to come.
The next will be against Mohamed El Shorbagy, the young Egyptian who caused one worlds upset in the semifinals last year, and caused another in the quarterfinals this time. El Shorbagy did that by beating James Willstrop, the third-seeded former world No. 1 from England, 12-10, 11-6, 2-11, 11-9.
Gaultier was taking on 22-year-old Shorbagy yesterday after Ramy Ashour, the defending champion from Egypt, contests the other semifinal against Nick Matthew, the former world champion from England.
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