Forty ties decided on opening day

Published August 11, 2008

LAHORE, Aug 10: The first day of the two-day qualifying round of the National Junior Squash Championship for boys and girls ended with forty matches played in five different age categories on Sunday.

The second round of the qualification will be held on Monday. Top four players of each category will qualify for the main round that starts from Tuesday.

Results (1st round):

U-11: Asfsand Yar (NWFP) bt Usmar Hassan (Punjab) 9-1,9-2,9-0; Haroon Khan (NWFP) bt Ismail Rauf (NWFP) 9-8,8-10,9-5,9-7; Shoaib Ahmed (NWFP) bt Abdul Qadir (Punjab) 9-1,9-1,9-2; Azim Ashraf (Punjab) bt Sharoon Sharif (Punjab) 9-2,9-0,9-0; Dawood Riaz (Punjab) bt Shahzad Khan (Punjab) 5-9,9-5,9-3,9-4; Kashif (Punjab) bt Zuhair Shahid (Punjab) 9-0,9-1,9-1; Ahsan (PAF) bt Waqas Yousaf (Punjab) 9-0,9-0,9-3; Marwan (PAF) bt Zain Ramzan (Punjab) 9-1,9-6,9-0.

U-13: Adil Faqir (PAF) bt Waqas Raheem (Punjab) 9-1,9-1,9-4; Salman Hashmi (Punjab) bt Rafil Saleem (Punjab)9-0, 9-0; Abbas Shoukat (NWFP) bt Arslan Khan (NWFP) 9-6,9-0,9-1; Javed Ali (Balochistan) bt Umer Alaudin (Punjab) 9-4,9-5,9-2; M. Arif (PAF) bt Waqas Khan (NWFP) 9-5,9-2,9-6; Imam Sher Khan (Punjab) bt M. Ahmed (Punjab) 9-0,9-1,9-0; Rishwan (NWFP) bt Tahir Yousaf (Punjab) 9-4,9-4,9-6; Numan Shahid (NWFP) bt Zeeshan Khan (NWFP) 9-5,9-7,9-1.

U-15: Mehmood Mehboob (PAF) bt Shahzeb (NWFP) 10-8,9-3,6-9,9-2; Babrak Khan (NWFP) bt Hassan Arif (Punjab) 9-4,9-1,9-5; Safiullah Kakar (Balochistan) bt M. Amin (NWFP) 9-5,9-5,9-5; Ali Nasir (NWFP) bt Haseeb Akram (Punjab) 9-5,9-2,9-6; Mansoor Jan (NWFP) bt Ahmed Qadart Shah (NWFP) 9-4,9-5,9-0; Fahim Gul (NWFP) bt Ahmed Sethi (Punjab 9-5,9-1,9-2; Farman Ahmed (Punjab) bt Ahmed Hassan (Punjab) 9-0,9-1,9-0; Ali Bukhari (Punjab) bt M. Umar (Punjab 9-0,9-0,9-0.

U-17: Salman Mohib (NWFP) got bye; Aman Ali (Punjab) got bye; Nasir Iqbal (NWFP) bt Aamir Yaqoob (Punjab) 9-0,9-0,9-0; Noor Ali Khan (Punjab) bt Rizwan Ahmed (Punjab) 9-6,9-4,9-5; Usman Ahmed (Punjab)bt Umar Bin Javed (Punjab) 9-1,9-7,9-7; Danish Rasheed (Punjab) bt M. Hassan (Punjab) 5-9,9-3,9-4,9-3; Ali Raza (Balochistan) bt Salman Khan (NWFP)10-8,8-10,9-5,9-2; Ali Ayub (Punjab) bt Arslan Bhatti (Punjab) 9-3,9-5,9-0.

U-19: Haroon Rasheed (Punjab) bt Adeel Asghar (Punjab) 9-1,9-0,9-0; Mujahid Hussain (Punjab) bt Raees Khan (NWFP) 4-9,9-7,10-8,7-9,10-8; Aurangzeb Mehmund (Punjab) bt Shahid Hussain (Punjab ) 9-2,9-6,9-0; Ahmed Amin (Punjab) bt Adnan Tehkali (NWFP) 9-2,9-1,9-1; Waqas Mehboob (NWFP) bt M. Umair (Punjab) 9-0,9-0,9-0; Hamza Bukhari (Punjab) bt Naqash Shahid (Punjab) 10-9,9-4,9-5; Sheikh Saqib (Punjab) bt Khalil Mehboob (Punjab) 9-7,9-6,3-9,9-3; Muqadar Shah (NWFP) bt Ayazullah Khan (NWFP) 10-8,9-5,9-6.

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