Sarah-Jane Perry, right. is into the Black Ball Squash Open final after a win against Joelle King ©PSA

England's Sarah-Jane Perry and Egypt's Hania El Hammamy are through to the final of the Professional Squash Association (PSA) Black Ball Squash Open after winning their respective semi-finals in Egyptian capital Cairo.

Fifth seed Perry was victorious in a five-game tussle with New Zealand's seventh seed Joelle King.

Perry won by a score of 5-11, 13-11, 13-11, 7-11, 13-11 after both players had knocked out top-three seeds in the previous round.

The semi-final, which lasted 74 minutes as Perry needed more than 11 points to win each of her three games, was a rematch of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games final, which King won.

"If I was a cat I think I would have used at least four of my nine lives today," said Perry in a post-match interview.

"It was topsy-turvy because whoever was in the middle was controlling the game."

In the later match, defending champion El Hammamy found the going far easier.

El Hammamy beat American Amanda Sobhy 11-9, 12-10, 11-9, as Sobhy was unable to follow her stunning defeat of world number one Nour El Sherbini with another upset versus an Egyptian.

Fourth seed El Hammamy was the highest-ranked player left in the tournament.

When 20-year-old El Hammamy won this tournament in March, she beat Perry in the quarter-finals.

They will face off in the final of the PSA World Tour Gold event tomorrow, before the men's contest begins.