LAHORE, July 10: The Punjab national junior squash championship for boys and girls entered semi-finals stage at the Punjab Squash Complex on Monday. In boys' Under-19 event, only Adil Atlas (NWFP) had to go into the fourth game to beat Asim Shahzad (NWFP) 4-9, 9-0, 9-2, 9-2 after fighting for 31 mins.

Shoaib Hassan (Punjab), Riaz Ali (Punjab) and Kashif Khan (Sindh) had easy sailing in the three other quarter-finals.

In the girls' U-19 contest, Aliya (Punjab) was also stretched to four games by Zeba Pervez (Punjab) before winning in 32 minutes 9-0, 9-5, 7-9, 9-5.

Zoya Khalid (Punjab), Mehwish Hanif (Punjab), and Maria Toor (NWFP) registered straight games win in other three quarter-finals.

In the only quarter-final, which was extended to fifth game, Aurangzeb Khan (Punjab) struggled hard to carve out win against Noor Ali (Punjab) to enter the U-15 prefinals.

Aurangzeb fought for 83 minutes to eventually make exist of spirited Noor with the score being 6-9, 10-9, 9-2, 3-9, 9-6.

Results:

Boys:

U-11: Tayyab Aslam (Punjab) bt Imran Khan (Punjab) 9-5, 9-4, 9-3; Mansoor Jan (PAF) bt Fahim Khan (Punjab) 7-9, 9-3, 9-3, 9-3; Ali Bukhari (Punjab) bt Asim Khan (Punjab) 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Amad Farid (Punjab) bt Ziaud Din (Punjab) 9-0, 9-3, 9-5.

U-13: Nasir Iqbal (PAF) bt Danish Rasheed (Punjab) 9-0, 9-0, 9-5; Naimatullah (NWFP) bt Noman Zaman (Sindh) 9-4, 6-9, 9-3, 9-4; Haroon Rasheed (Punjab) bt Arbab Dilawar (PAF) 9-1, 9-2, 9-1; Hamza Bukhari (Punjab) bt Bilal Zakir (NWFP) 9-4, 9-1, 9-1.

U-15: Farhan Zaman (PAF) bt Haroon Samad (Punjab) 6-9, 9-1, 9-5, 9-0; Aurangzeb Khan (Punjab) bt Noor Ali (Punjab) 6-9, 10-9, 9-2, 3-9, 9-6; Waqas Mehboob (PAF) bt Danish Atlas (NWFP) 7-9, 9-7, 9-6, 9-4; Sheikh Saqib (Punjab) bt Owais Khan (PAF) 9/2, 9/6, 9/2.

U-17: Asif Khan (PAF) bt Mujahid Hussain (Punjab) 9-4, 9-5, 9-3; Waqas Mehboob (NWFP) bt Tariq Khan (PAF) 9-1, 9-2, 9-1; Tahir Iqbal (PAF) bt Intikhab Alam (Punjab) 9-2, 9-4, 10-8; Raza Yaqoob (Punjab) bt Shahin Zaman (NWFP) 1-9, 9-7, 9-4, 9-7.

U-19: Adil Atlas (NWFP) bt Asim Shehzad (NWFP) 4-9, 9-0, 9-2, 9/2; Shoaib Hassan (Punjab) bt Shahzad Khan (PAF) 9-3, 9-0, 10-8; Riaz Ali (Punjab) bt Naveed Alam (Sindh) 9-0, 9-5, 9-6; Kashif Khan (Sindh) Jibran Noorani (NWFP) 9-5, 9-4, 9-5.

GIRLS.

U-15: Sana Batool (Punjab bt Javeria (Punjab) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Habiba Khan (Sindh) bt Samra Ijaz (Punjab) 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Riffat Khan (Punjab) bt Maria Rafiq (Punjab) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Roshana Mehboob (Punjab) got walk over against Beenish Khan (Punjab).U-19: Aliya (Punjab) bt Zeba Pervez (Punjab) 9-0, 9-5, 7-9, 9-5; Zoya Khalid (Punjab) bt Maliha Shahid (Punjab) 9-4,

9-0, 10-8; Mehwish Hanif (Punjab) bt Hina (sindh) 9-7, 9-2, 9-3; Maria Toor (NWFP) bt Ana Batool (Punjab) 9-5, 9-0, 9-5.