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Golf croquet: Smash like an Egyptian mantra in Hawke's Bay during women's world champs

Anendra Singh
By Anendra Singh
Sports editor·Hawkes Bay Today·
3 Feb, 2019 06:37 AM3 mins to read

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Women's world No 4 Pauline Salib is Egypt's top qualifier and undefeated at the sixth Women's World Golf Croquet Championship in Hawke's Bay after two days of play. Photo/Paul Taylor

Women's world No 4 Pauline Salib is Egypt's top qualifier and undefeated at the sixth Women's World Golf Croquet Championship in Hawke's Bay after two days of play. Photo/Paul Taylor

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Muscle up or go home is pretty much the message from the president of the World Croquet Federation Amir Ramsis Naguib.

That's because Naguib, who also is head honcho of the Egyptian Croquet Federation, should know as the Women's Golf Croquet World Championship entered day two of competition in Hawke's Bay today.

"Golf croquet is an aggressive game because if you're not then you just won't win," said the 68-year-old lawyer as six Egyptian female players names emerged from the eight blocks competed for at the headquarters of the Heretaunga Croquet Club in Hastings and the Marewa Croquet Club in Napier before the dust had settled late this afternoon.

Naguib said their women embraced a similar feral approach because it was something the globally dominant male players had instilled in them.

"We don't play a defensive system because we're always attacking our opponents," he said, adding at the end of the game there were no stalemates.

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Naguib, who operates a travel agency in Cairo and a film company that his father, the late Ramsis Naguib, established as the biggest name in the industry in the Arab nations before his death four decades ago, said Hanan Rashad was the epitome of that in-your-face approach.

Rashad, who is undefeated in block C here, was crowned the 50-over world champion in October last year after beating a compatriot male, Yasser Fathy, 3-2 in the final at the Gezira Sporting Club in Cairo.

"It was the first time a woman, because it was a single open for men and women, won

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However, the women's world top seed, Jenny Clarke, of Christchurch, stands in the way of the Middle Eastern mallet mashers and so does Australian Alison Sharpe, the world No 7.

"Jenny is very aggressive and she has a good coach in husband who is a champion in association croquet," he said of England-born Chris Clarke who live in Christchurch.

It is inherent of the Egyptians to want to resort to speed and aggression to assert themselves on the pristine manicured greens.

"This is the system because we like it," he explained, echoing the sentiments of a few other association croquet heads that the abbreviated golf version is far more exciting and will, eventually, sound the death knell of the traditional format.

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The British had introduced association croquet to the Egyptians in the capital of Cairo in the 1920s.

"Little by little it was developed in the clubs, especially the Gezira club, which was for the English army officers," he said, revealing those incremental gains led to the establishment of the maiden croquet federation in his country in 1964.

Jenny Clarke (nee Williams), has a great coach in England-born husband Chris Clarke. Photo/file
Jenny Clarke (nee Williams), has a great coach in England-born husband Chris Clarke. Photo/file

Clarke had beaten Periham El Wi (Egypt) 7-2, 7-2, Anne Brooks (England) 7-2, 7-1 and Brenda Wild (Australia) 7-0, 7-4 in block A when Hawke's Bay Today went to press today.

Egyptian top qualifier Pauline Salib claimed that status in block B, beating Cheryl Bromley (US) 7-4, 7-6, Patricia Anderton (Pukekohe) 7-4, 7-5, Janine McHardy 6-7, 7-3, 7-3 and was playing Jane Pringle (England) in her last clash today.

The women's world No 4 is under the tutelage of her father, Mahib Salib, who still competes in Egypt.

Rashad, the female world No 6 in block C, joins compatriot Soha Mostafa, the women's world No 3, who is undefeated after four matches in block D.

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Women's world No 11, Mervat El Shazly, of Egypt, has an unblemished record in block F and so world No 7 Sharpe after three clashes in block G although world No 10 Manal Khoudier, of Egypt, has emulated her feat.

Another Egyptian, Shadin Okasha, the women's world No 8, and world No 23 Jayne Stevens, of England, are setting a cracking pace in block H.

The top four players from each block will progress to the next round.

"It's my first time in New Zealand an I'm enjoying the beautiful country and I like it very much," said a grinning Naguib, adding may the best female player reign as the champion in the four-year championship.

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