October 5, 2002	Saturday	Rajab 27, 1423

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BUSAN, Oct 4: Malaysia’s Ong Beng Hee confirmed his undisputed status as Asia’s squash king when he brushed aside the challenge of Pakistan’s Mansoor Zaman to win the men’s Asian Games event.

The world number seven and top seed was never seriously challenged as he swept to a 9-0, 9-7, 9-0 victory over the second seeded Pakistani in 45 minutes.

Ong just had too much class for Mansoor who had only won one of their four previous meetings and he allowed the 22-year-old Malaysian to dictate the match.

He was constantly caught flat-footed and was left to chase his opponent’s incisive drop shots and look on in vain as cross-court drives evaded him.

However, Ong, who is coached in London by world champion Peter Nicol’s coach Neil Harvey, knew he could not take victory for granted after being two games to one down and 5-7 down in the fourth game of his semifinal Thursday against Shahid Zaman, Mansoor’s cousin.

“I had been very nervous in that semifinal and today I told myself just to be much more relaxed. This is the Asian Games and I didn’t want to screw it up.”

BOXING:

India’s light-flyweight Mohamad Ali Qamar decked Pakistan’s Imran Hafeez twice in the first round to earn a quarterfinal ticket in the Asian Games boxing tournament Friday.

Qamar face Harry Tanamor of the Philippines in the quarterfinal.

Light-middleweight Kashif Mumtaz of Pakistan, however, outpointed Christopher Camat of the Philippines, 18-11 to move ahead.

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