LAHORE, April 13: Yasir Butt of Punjab, No 12 seed upset second seed Khalid Atlas (PAF) in straight games to enter the under-19 semifinal of the Faysal Bank national junior (boys/girls) squash championship at the Punjab Squash Complex on Sunday.

Yasir a promising player earned victory with a score of 10- 8, 10-8, 9-3.

Yasir struggled hard in the first two games which lasted for 30 minutes each. However, he led from start to finish but faced a good chase from Khalid, a member of Pakistan team which won the World Junior championship in Chennai, India recently. The match went on for 73 minutes.

In the girls Under-19 section, Misbah Rani and Sara Awan entered  the final after winning their  quarterfinals  and semifinals on Sunday.

Results:

Boys: Under-19: Quarterfinals: Safeer Khan (PAF) bt Basit Ashfaq (Punjab) 9-5, 9-1, 9-1; Faisal Zaman (PAF) bt Rizwan Ahmed (Balochistan) 9-3, 9-3, 9-6; Yasir Butt (Punjab) bt Khalid Atlas (PAF) 10-8, 10-8, 9-3.

Uuder-17 Farhan Mehboob (PAF) bt Yasir Sarwar 9-0, 9-1, 9-2; Farzan Rasheed (Punjab) bt Wasim Gul (Punjab) 9-3, 9-3, 9-3; Haider Jamal (Punjab) bt Ali Liaqat (Punjab) 9-3, 9-0, 9-1.

Uuder-15: Alamzeb Jnr (PAF) bt Adnan Khan 9-3, 9-4, 9-1; Rehmanullah (NWFP) bt Khurram Shehzad (Sind) 9-3, 9-2, 9-1; Amir Atlas (PAF) bt M Naeem 9-2, 9-0, 9-5; Alam Khan(PAF) bt Nadeem Khan (Punjab) 9-5, 9-6, 9-3.

Uuder-13. Waqar Mehboob (PAF) bt Aqib Ahmed (Sindh) 9-1, 9-0,9-0; Danish Atlas (PAF) bt Owais Khan (9-4, 9-3, 9-3; Shoaib Hassan (Punjab) bt Muhammad Ali Ayub (Punjab) 9-2,9-0, 9-6; Ibrahim Omar (Punjab) bt Asif Khan 9-4, 9-4, 9-3.

Girls: Under-19. Quarterfinals: Sara Awan (Punjab) bt Shahina Yaqoob 9-0, 9-1, 9- 0; Saima Shaukat (Punjab) bt Alisha Khalid 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Misbah Rani bt Mubashira Zia 9-1, 9-1, 9-2; Muqqadas Ashraf bt Shafaq Naeem 9-6, 9-1, 9-7.

Semifinals. Sara Awan (Punjab) bt Saima Shaukat (Punjab) 9-1, 9-6, 9-1; Misbah Rani (Punjab) bt Muqqadas Ashraf 9-5, 9-7, 0-9, 8-10, 9-2.

Uuder-17. Quarterfinals: Alya Sarfraz got bye; Zeba Pervez got bye; Mahwash bt Farha Nabeel 9-5, 9-0, 9-2; Gul Zaman got bye. Semifinals: Alya Sarfraz bt Zeba Pervez 9-1, 9-5, 9-0; Gul Zaman bt Mahwish 9-4, 9-4,9-4.

Under-15. Quarterfinals: Maria Gul bt Amna Sarfraz 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Zoya Khalid bt Sara Sharif 9-0, 9-0,9-0; Amna Mehboob bt Maria Yaqoob 9-3, 9-1, 9-1; Maleeha Shahid bt Zainab Arshad 9-0,9-0, 9-0.

Under-13. Quarterfinals: Marhaba Naymat bt Riffat Khan 9-0, 9-2, 9-0; Beenish Khan bt Rabia Mehboob 9-2, 9-2, 9-1; Roshana bt Aniqa Awan 9-0, 9-4, 9-4; Qandeel Fatima bt Ana Batool 9-1, 9-3, 9-0.