Optasia Championships ~ Tuesday 24 to Sunday 29 March 2026

🏆 The Wimbledon Club is the place to be in March 2026 for the Optasia Championships featuring some of world’s best squash players.

🎟️ Tickets are on sale here.

The Optasia Championships are back for 2026 bigger and better than before!  Taking place from Tuesday 24 to Sunday 29 March, the championships will once again include a women’s and men’s PSA World Tour Gold tournament.  This year the prize money has been increased with a prize pot of $129,000 at stake in both events.  Optasia Championships tickets are on sale now.  

The 2025 Optasia Championships did not disappoint.  For the first time it included a women’s PSA World Tour Gold event alongside the men’s.  Hania El Hammamy and Mostafa Asal (pictured below) were crowned the women’s and men’s champion respectively.

World No.3  El Hammamy put in a dominant display beating England No.1 Gina Kennedy  3-0 (11-9, 11-2, 11-3) in the women’s final.  In the men’s final world No.2 Mostafa Asal gained his revenge over defending champion Paul Coll after the New Zealander beat Asal in the 2024 semi-finals.  Asal won their 2025 final in straight sets: 3-0 (11-4, 11-4, 11-8).

Now the 2026 championships await.  Six days of action take place from Tuesday 24 to Sunday 29 March at The Wimbledon Club, just over the road from the famous tennis championships.  Fittingly for SW19, Wimbledon’s second biggest sports event will be staged on a tennis court.  One covered in black carpet, with a bar, a TV studio, a large grandstand and an all-glass squash court on it. 

Book your Optasia Championships tickets now for what promises to be a memorable six days of squash showcasing some of world’s top players.

OPTASIA CHAMPIONSHIPS TICKETS, TIMINGS, TRAVEL, ONES TO WATCH & DRAW

Tickets

🎟️ TICKETS are on sale via the ‘Get Tickets’ link.  Starting from Adults £20/U16s £10.

🎫 HOSPITALITY/VIP seat packages are available starting from £60.

Timings for Optasia Championships

  DAILY TIMINGS*

*Note: Timings are subject to change.

Tuesday 24 March: Round 1 matches.

Morning Session – Door open 11.30am.  Matches start at 12 noon.  Evening Session – Doors open 5pm.  Matches start at 5.30pm.

Wednesday 25 March: Round 2 matches.  

Morning Session – Door open 11.30am.  Matches start at 12 noon.  Evening Session – Doors open 5pm.  Matches start at 5.30pm.

Thursday 26 March: Round 2 matches.

Morning Session – Door open 11.30am.  Matches start at 12 noon.  Evening Session – Doors open 5pm.  Matches start at 5.30pm.

Friday 27 March: Quarter-Finals.

Morning Session – Door open 11.30am.  Matches start at 12 noon.  Evening Session – Doors open 5pm.  Matches start at 5.30pm.pm to 9pm

Saturday 28 March: Semi-Finals.

One session: Doors open at 3pm.  Matches start at 4pm. 

Sunday 29 March: FINALS .

One session: Doors open at 3pm.  Matches start at 4pm.  Pro Squash Challenge (W) & Optasia Championship Final (M).

Travel

🚊🚗 Travel tips: The Wimbledon Club is easily accessible using public transport.  Southfields tube station – on the District Line of the London Underground – is a 10 minute walk from the venue.  Wimbledon mainline station – on both the South Western Railway and Thameslink with excellent links into central London and beyond – is approximately a 20 minute walk, or short taxi ride away. Plan your journey at the Transport for London website.  If driving there is a car park at The Wimbledon Club with spaces available on a FCFS basis.  If the car park is full on-street parking is available on surrounding roads subject to local parking restrictions.

Ones to Watch

Women’s Tournament

Watch this space for the 2026 ‘ones to watch’!  See below for the 2025 preview.

The top three players in the world are among the entries.  World champion Nouran Gohar leads the way, with Nour ElSherbini and Hania El Hammamy also set to feature.

Gohar claimed her first world championship title back in May and has gone on to claim four major event titles since then, including the prestigious British Open.  Gohar’s rivalry with ElSherbini reached its peak last year as the pair contested 10 finals against each other.  ElSherbini, a seven-time world champion, is deservedly regarded as one of the greats of the game.

World No.3 El Hammamy endured a challenging 2024, but bounced back in style in the first major event of 2025, beating both of her rivals to win the J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions.  The No.4 seeding spot in the women’s tournament has gone to England No.1 Georgina Kennedy.  The Bexley-based world No.6 will be aiming to harness the full support of the London crowd as she goes in search of a first win over one of the ‘Big Three’.  She sits in the same half as No.2 seed ElSherbini.

Sarah-Jane Perry, Jasmine Hutton, Tesni Murphy, Katie Malliff, Alicia Mead, Torrie Malik, Grace Gear and wildcard Lisa Aitken provide additional British hopes.

Men’s Tournament

Watch this space for the 2026 ‘ones to watch’!  See below for the 2025 preview.

World No.2 and World Championships finalist Mostafa Asal was beaten in the semi-finals in last season’s event.  He returns as the top seed this year, eager to claim another title and reclaim his world No.1 status.

Defending Optasia champion Paul Coll beat Asal in the semi-finals last year.  And then went on to win an epic final against Farag to claim his fourth title of the 23/24 season.  Coll has struggled to reach the heights that he set himself last year and is desperately searching to find his top form.  Can he make it back-to-back titles in Wimbledon?

British No.1 Joel Makin has made himself incredibly hard to beat this season. The Welshman claimed his biggest title to date in San Francisco earlier in the campaign as well as securing semi-final finishes at the Qatar Classic and Hong Kong Open Platinum events, losing to Asal on both occasions. Makin is always a crowd favourite in events on UK soil and loves to compete in front of a British crowd. He sits in the same half as Asal, so would potentially need to defeat the top seed in order to make a run for a second Gold event win of the season.

Plenty of home interest in the men’s event with the Elshorbagy brothers, Declan James, Curtis Malik and wildcards Charlie Lee and Sam Osborne-Wylde flying the flag for England.

Draw

🏆 OPTASIA CHAMPIONSHIPS – FULL DRAW

Women’s draw:

Will appear here as soon as published.

Men’s draw:

Will appear here as soon as published.

OPTASIA CHAMPIONSHIPS TICKETS – See above for the latest news!

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