2025 Milestones

January 20, 2026

Deaths

Rob Hill died in September at the age of sixty-four. Raised in Colorado, Hill was one of the earliest top juniors to come from the West. He played No.1 on the Princeton varsity for three years, serving as a captain his senior year. He won the National Doubles in 1984 and the 50+ in 2014. He was a top-ten pro on the North American hardball tour (including a win over Chris Dittmar at the 1985 North American Open), and he was the president of the tour 1989-92. Many knew Hill as the purveyor of the Prince Extender, a revolutionary racquet in the 1990s.

by James Zug

Retirements

Ali Farag retired in May. Farag was a three-time All American and two-time national individual champion at Harvard. He won forty-six titles on the PSA tour, including four World Championships, four Tournament of Champions, three U.S. Opens and two Windy City Opens. The Egyptian’s career tenure at world No.1, 238 weeks, is the fifth longest in men’s history.

Sarah-Jane Perry retired in May. Perry reached world No. 5 and won eleven tour titles, including back-to-back Netsuite Opens in San Francisco. The Englishwoman was very active off-court, serving on the board of the PSA as women’s president and the PSA Foundation. She won three British national titles and was on the English squad that won the 2014 World Team Championships.

Tarek Momen retired in June. The Egyptian, husband of former world No.1 Raneem El Welily, won the World Championship in 2019. He reached world No.3, captured eleven tour titles and was a finalist at both the Tournament of Champions and the U.S. Open. Renowned for his consistency, in 2020-23 he reached the quarters of thirty-four straight tournaments.

Omar Mosaad retired in September. A top junior who won two British Junior Open titles, Mosaad reached world No.3, captured eight tour titles and was a finalist many major events, including the U.S. Open and World Championship. The Egyptian was on tour for almost twenty-one years, the longest tenure ever for an Egyptian male player.

Camille Serme retired in September. The former world No.2 stepped away in 2022 but came out of retirement in September 2024 at age thirty-five and spent a year back on tour. The Frenchwoman won her thirteenth French national title and lifted two more PSA titles to total seventeen career wins. She also helped France capture the bronze medal at the 2025 European Teams.