The Hong Kong Football Club Open: SquashLevels Report

The Hong Kong Football Club Open finished on 25th November with Egypt’s Aly Abou Eleinen claiming the men’s title, jumping up to #20 in the SquashLevels ratings from #32, and Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam claiming the women’s title, moving her into #12 in the SquashLevels ratings.

SquashLevels has taken the data from the tournament and analysed the most improved players across the tournament, as well as the games which had the biggest impact on those movements.

Here’s what we found.

Top 10 Movers

This table shows the players who had the highest Level increase over the course of the event, their SquashLevels rating before and after the tournament.

Rank	Player Name	Level Before	Level After	Percentage Change	Ranking Before	Ranking After
1	Aly Abou Eleinen	44,343	50,930	14.85%	32	20
2	Yassin Elshafei	27,840	30,342	8.99%	100	86
3	Sivasangari Subramaniam	12,069	13,109	8.62%	15	12
4	Henry Leung	29,059	31,005	6.70%	91	77
5	Seif El-Shenawy	23,817	25,092	5.35%	141	121
6	Ainaa Amani	7,973	8,298	4.08%	59	51
7	Eain Yow Ng	53,759	55,873	3.93%	17	14
8	Ho Tze-Lok	8,751	9,094	3.92%	40	33
9	Lau Tsz Kwan	34,895	36,076	3.38%	62	57
10	Tong Tsz-Wing	8,037	8,274	2.95%	55	52

Sivasangari Subramaniam winning the final

Top 10 Best Performances across the Hong Kong Football Club Open

The following table highlights the top ten best performances across the Hong Kong Football Club Open

Player	Opponent	Level Before	Level After	% Increase	Corrected Match Score
Aly Abou Eleinen	Iker Pajares	45281	49041	8.30%	5-7,11-2,11-11
Ainaa Amani	Marta Dominguez Fernandez	7973	8419	5.59%	6-9,11-6,11-11
Seif El-Shenawy	Addeen Idrakie	23817	24873	4.43%	6-6,11-11,11-13,9-15
Lau Tsz Kwan	Abdulla Altamimi	35414	36829	3.99%	7-6,11-11,11-10,6-11,12-5
Aly Abou Eleinen	Eain Yow Ng	49041	50930	3.85%	7-7,11-11,11-6,5-11
Yassin Elshafei	Mohamed Elsherbini	29368	30342	3.31%	11-7,6-10,11-11,12-11,6-5
Eain Yow Ng	Mohamed Elsherbini	55711	57548	3.29%	4-5,11-9,11-11
Henry Leung	Mohamed Elsherbini	30088	31005	3.04%	11-11,5-11,3-5,7-9,11-11
Nadia Pfister	Aira Azman	5091	5232	2.76%	11-9,5-11,11-11,4-4
Nathan Lake	Shahjahan Khan	45012	46241	2.73%	2-10,11-8,12-11

Aly Abou Eleinen playing Iker Pajares in the semi-final

What is SquashLevels?

SquashLevels is a results-based ranking system. As players compete in their leagues and tournaments, their results automatically flow into SquashLevels from their results providers. From here, SquashLevels’ unique algorithm will calculate a Level for each player based on their opponents’ Level, their result including points scores, behavioural modelling and various other factors. SquashLevels rewards a player for performing better than they were expected to based on their Level.