Sarah Cardwell joined the Tour in 2008 and lifted her first ever career Tour title in January 2012 on home-soil at the Australia Day Challenge where she bested Liu Tsz-Ling in the final.
Cardwell achieved a runner-up finish at the New South Wales Open the following year and narrowly missed out on the WA Open and Mackay Open titles in 2014.
Melbourne-born Cardwell met Tsz-Ling in the final of the South Australian Open in May 2015 but was beaten to the title in her home country.
Cardwell continued to reach finals and later on in the year progressed through to the final of the Mackay Open where she was beaten by Vanessa Chu.
Back-to-back titles soon followed for the Australian as she lifted both the Queensland Open and Malaysian Tour Squash VIII titles, beating Lisa Camilleri and Teh Min Jie respectively.
Two more runner-up finishes at the City of Perth Squash Challenge Open and China Squash Challenge Cup in 2016 saw Cardwell break into the world’s top 50 for the first time in her career.
2017 brought another final appearance for Australian Cardwell as she finished runner-up at the Delaware Women’s Open, where she was beaten in straight games by Kanzy Emad El Defrawy.