KARACHI: Three more seeded players — a man and two women — crashed out in the second round of the eighth DG Rangers Sindh National Squash Championship at the Ranger’s Jahangir Khan squash complex on Wednesday.

Khwaja Adil Maqsood, a Dubai-based Pakistani and sixth seed, retired hurt while playing Zahir Shah of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa owing to a hamstring problem.

Zahir won 6-11, 11-5, 11-5 to earn a place in last eight.

Similarly, two local players — third seed Zahab Khan and sixth seed Anam Aziz — met their fate. Madina Zafar stunned the former 12-10, 11-8, 11-3 while Riffat Khan shocked the latter 11-9, 11-7, 11-8.

Other seeded players cruised into the last eight registering victories over their respective opponents.

The quarter-finals will be played on Thursday.

Results:Second round:

Men’s: Mansoor Zaman (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt M. Adil Faqir

(Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) 11-2, 11-5, 11-5; Zahir Shah (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Khwaja Adil Maqbool (Sindh) 6-11, 11-5, 11-5 (retired hurt); Tayyab Aslam (ZTBL) bt Faizan Khan (Sindh) 11-6, 11-6, 11-5; Danish Atlas (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Asim Khan (SNGPL) 11-7, 11-9, 11-2; Farhan Mehboob (Wapda) bt Saddam-ul-Haq (Army) 6-11, 11-9, 11-3, 11-5; Ammad Farid (SNGPL) bt Waqar Mehboob (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) 11-1, 11-6, 11-9; Shaikh Saquib (Punjab) bt Salman Zeb

(Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) 11-2, 13-11,

11-3; Farhan Zaman (PAF) bt Mohammad Farhan (SNGPL) 11-6, 11-2, 11-4.

Second round:

Women’s: Sadia Gul (SNGPL) bt Habiba Khan (ZTBL) 11-7, 11-4, 11-4; Zoya Khalid (ZTBL) bt Farha Manzoor (Punjab) 11-2, 11-8, 11-4; Saima

Shoukat (Wapda) bt Amina Latif (ZTBL) 6-11, 11-6, 11-3, 11-6; Madina Zafar (SNGPL) bt Zahab Khan (Sindh) 12-10, 11-8, 11-3; Aiman Shahbaz

(Punjab) bt Amina Fayyaz (Sindh) 11-4, 10-12, 7-11, 11-5, 11-7; Riffat Khan (ZTBL) bt Anam Aziz (Sindh) 11-9,

11-7, 11-8; Roshana Mehboob (ZTBL) bt Noor-ul-Ain Ijaz (Punjab) 11-5, 11-3, 11-6; Samar Anjum (Punjab) bt Faiza Zafar (Sindh) 11-7, 11-3, 11-5.

Thursday’s fixtures:

At 12noon: Men’s quarter-finals

At 2pm: Women’s quarter-finals.

Published in Dawn, December 25th, 2014