RAMY AND RICHARDS RENEW RIVALRY... TEN YEARS ON

SPOTLIGHT ON TOM RICHARDS v RAMY ASHOUR

Tom Richards is one of the rising stars of the game. He played a great match to beat Egyptian Hisham Ashour in the first round and tonight he meets his brother, Ramy.

Ramy Ashour won the 2008 World Open and has featured in the past two Richmond finals. He has met England's current world champion Nicki Matthew on each occasion. Ramy won the 2009 championship match but had to concede last year because of injury.

He and Nick met in the recent Tournament of Champions final at Grand Central Station in New York, with Ra,my claiming the first "Major" squash title of 2011.

Although Tom and Ramy have never played each other on the PSA Tour before, they contested both the British Junior Under-13 Open final in January 1999, then the Under-15 final two years later in 2001.

Tom and Ramy meet in the third match of this evening's session, which completes the second round schedule.

Ramy won both times: 9-0. 9-0. 9-0 the first time, and 5-9, 9-1, 9-5, 9-2 the second

It will be interesting to see what a difference 10 years makes!

Tom has just been selected for England for the first time in next months World Team Cup in India