2025 Budapest Squash Open

The Professional Squash Association (PSA) have released the draw for the 2025 Budapest Men's Squash Open which will take place at the City Squash Club from the 20th to 25th September.

Hungarian No.1 Farkas Balazs and Scotland’s Greg Lobban will headline the 2025 Budapest Squash Open which will be a PSA Copper-Level World Tour Squash event.

World No.47 Farkas Balazs, seeded fourth, is expected to attract strong home support as he bids for success in the Hungarian capital. The 28-year-old enters in excellent form, having recently captured the Silver Medal at the World Games in Chengdu. His path, however, is a challenging one, with the draw placing him in the same half as top seed Greg Lobban. The experienced Scot, currently ranked World No.20 and already the winner of 15 PSA World Squash Tour titles, will be targeting another deep run. Should both advance, the pair are projected to meet in a semi-final showdown.

The bottom half of the draw is dominated by English talent, with No.2 seed Nick Wall and No.3 seed Patrick Rooney on course for a semi-final clash if results follow the seedings. They are not without obstacles, though, with Switzerland’s Yannick Wilhelmi (No.6 seed) and England’s Simon Herbert (No.8 seed) both capable of upsetting the order.

2025 Budapest Squash Open Draw:
[1] Greg Lobban (SCO) [bye]
[WC] Benedek Takacs (HUN) v Yassin Elshafei (EGY)
Emyr Evans (WAL) v Yannik Omlor (GER)
[5] George Parker (ENG) [bye]
[7] Ryunosuke Tsukue (JPN) [bye]
Rowan Damming (NED) v Daniel Poleshcuk (ISR)
Toufik Mekhalfi (FRA) v Aly Hussein (EGY)
[4] Balazs Farkas (HUN) [bye]
[3] Patrick Rooney (ENG) [bye]
Ziad Ibrahim (EGY) v Samuel Osborne-Wylde (ENG)
Rui Soares (POR) v [WC] Simon Daniel (HUN)
[8] Simon Herbert (ENG) [bye]
[6] Yannick Wilhelmi (SUI) [bye]
Elijah Thomas (NZL) v Iván Pérez (ESP)
Dewald van Niekerk (RSA) v Hamza Khan (PAK)
[2] Nick Wall (ENG) [bye]

The 2025 Budapest Squash Open will take place at the City Squash Club from the 20th to 25th September.

For the latest match updates as they happen and details of how to watch live, visit: psasquashtour.com

UNSQUASHABLE will be represented at the 2025 Budapest Squash Nick Wall, Yannick Wilhelmi and Iván Pérez.