Vikram Malhotra wins 5th PSA title

CHENNAI: India's Vikram Malhotra won his fifth PSA title after beating Egypt's

Youssef Ibrahim

in the final of the

Abu Dhabi Open

.

The US-based Indian won 6-11, 11-4, 11-3, 9-11, 13-11 against his opponent.

The top seeded Indian, fresh from the Asian Championship held in Chennai, beat Hesham Mohamed Aly of Egypt in the first round and then seventh seed

Ahmad Al-Saraj

of Jordan in the quarters.

In the semi-final, he took out Pakistan's

Khwaja Adil Maqbool

who retired in the third game after trailing by two games.

The stiff test then came for him in the title-match where the Egyptian took him to extra points in the decider.