Squash: Clyne hails 'best-ever' win

Edinburgh's Alan Clyne saved three match balls in a stunning final-game fightback to secure his "best win ever" at the British Grand Prix squash in Manchester.

Qualifier Clyne let a two-game lead slip against 16th seed Farhan Mehboob from Pakistan, and the 24-year-old Scot looked dead and buried when Mehboob went 8-0 up in the decider. But Clyne stormed back to take the next seven points and then fended off those three match balls before eventually winning 11-6, 11-8, 8-11, 5-11, 16-14 in a shade over an hour.

"That's definitely my best win ever," said the Inverness-born world number 55. "He's the first top-30 player I've beaten, and it's in a Super Series event too. What a great result."

Following his fourth five-game victory in the past eight days, Clyne's reward is a glamour second-round meeting with the new world number one, Egypt's Ramy Ashour, later tonight.