Nick Matthew has beaten Amr Shabana 11-9, 11-7, 5-3 (ret.), to advance to Friday's semifinals as the Egyptian was forced to retire midway through the third game of a quarterfinal that began on a promising note, with a very high level of play, but unfortunately ended with a whimper.
"Clearly, Amr's not the type of guy to pull out unless something's really wrong," said Matthew. "We're all striving to be like him... he's won three world championships. I'd give anything to have one of those."
Shabana injured his left knee two months ago, and said afterwards that he still isn't feeling 100% and didn't want to risk incurring further injury and so decided to abandon the match.
Tomorrow evening's semifinal match-ups are set:
6 p.m. #1 Karim Darwish (EGY) vs. #3 Ramy Ashour (EGY)
7 p.m. #4 Gregory Gaultier (FRA) vs. #8 Nick Matthew (ENG)
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