Egypt's former squash great Awad dies

SYDNEY: Gamal Awad, one of Egypt's most successful squash players of the 1970s and 80s, died suddenly at his home here late Wednesday, the Professional Squash Association (PSA) said. He was 49. 

Awad, runner-up in the 1982 World Masters and 1983 British Open – on both occasions to Jahangir Khan – is perhaps best known for participating with Khan in the longest-recorded match in the sport's history, in the Chichester Festival in England in 1983.