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| August 04, 2008 | Monday | Sha'aban 1 429 |
Pakistan sweep aside Czech Republic in junior squash
LONDON, Aug 3: Pakistan got off to a good start on the opening day of the World Junior Men’s Team Championship in the Swiss city of Zurich by putting aside Czech Republic 3-0 on the opening day which otherwise produced no surprises.
All the leading seeded countries survived their opening encounters without much ado.
Aamir Atlas Khan, runner-up in the individual championship, led second seed Pakistan to a clean sweep over event newcomers Czech Republic in Pool ‘B’, while favourites Egypt who rested new world champion Mohammed El Shorbagy, beat Finland 3/0 in Pool ‘A’.
Following are the 1st round results:
PAKISTAN bt CZECH REPUBLIC 3-0
Aamir Atlas Khan bt Roman Svec 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Mohamad Shoaib Hassan bt Ondrej Uherka 9-2, 9-0, 9-1; Waqar Mehboob bt Zbynek Standera 10-8, 9-6, 9-0.
EGYPT bt FINLAND 3-0
Andrew Wagih Shoukry bt Henrik Mustonen 10-9, 9-0, 9-7; Karim Abdel Gawad bt Mikael Siren 9-3, 9-1, 9-2; Amr Khaled Khalifa bt Joonas Honkanen 9-3, 9-2, 9-2.
WALES bt ECUADOR 3-0
Hywel Robinson bt Daniel Cueva Mosquera 9-3, 9-3, 9-0; Sam Fenwick bt Orlando Rodriguez Ordonez 9-5, 9-0, 9-3; David Haley bt Francisco Alvaro Asimbaya 9-7, 9-3, 9-6.
KUWAIT bt BERMUDA 3-0
Mohammed Al Tawari bt Robert Maycock 9-5, 9-3, 9-2; Ahmad Al-Randi bt Micah Franklin 9-3, 9-1, 9-3; Shamlan A Ali bt Noah DaBell 9-1, 9-0, 9-1.
ENGLAND bt DENMARK 3-0
Joe Lee bt Lau Ulrik Kiehn 9-1, 9-0, 9-2; Alex Ingham bt Kristian de Silva Nielsen
9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Adrian Waller bt Philip Tran 9-2, 9-1, 9-0.
SWITZERLAND bt ITALY 3-0
Patrick Miescher bt Alberto Matteazzi 9-3, 9-0, 9-4; Lukas Burkhart bt Dimitri Diamadopoulos 9-6, 9-1, 9-3; Jonas Daehler bt Marco d’Adam 9-2, 9-2, 9-2.
FRANCE bt BELGIUM 3-0
Gregoire Marche bt Tom de Mulder 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Lucas Serme bt Robin Schreurs 9-5, 9-1, 9-1; Antoine Petrucci bt Laurens Mostmans 10-9, 9-4, 9-2.
SOUTH AFRICA bt CAYMAN ISLANDS 3-0
Thoboki Mohohlo bt Alain Osman Mudeen 9-6, 9-5, 9-4; Wian Louwrens bt Cameron Stafford 9-3, 9-1, 9-3; Reinhold Hergeth bt Jacob Kelly 9-0, 9-8, 9-4.
INDIA bt VENEZUELA 3-0
Aditya Jagtap bt Daniel Prato 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Ramit Tandon bt Alejandro Suarez 9-1, 9-0, 9-1; Ravi Dixit bt Wilfredo Arcia 9-2, 9-0, 9-0.
USA bt NETHERLANDS 3-0
Todd Harrity bt Rick Penders 9-0, 9-0, 9-4; Thomas Mattsson bt Michael Ernst 10-9, 9-2, 9-0; Alex Domenick bt Tim van der Pluijm 9-1, 7-9, 9-3, 9-4.
AUSTRALIA bt GUATEMALA 3-0
Jacob Alexander bt Mauricio Sedano 9-2, 3-9, 9-2, 10-8; Aaron Fyfe bt Bryan Bonilla 9-0, 9-1, 9-3; Joshua Larkin bt Roberto Rodriguez 9-1, 9-0, 9-0.
GERMANY bt IRELAND 3-0
Raphael Kandra bt Colm Dolan 9-0, 9-0, 9-6; Norman Junge bt Kevin Davey 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Rudi Rohrmuller bt Alan Tighe 9-2, 9-1, 9-2.
CANADA bt SPAIN 3-0
Kelly Shannon bt Fausto Gomez 9-2, 9-1, 9-2; Fred Reid bt Hugo Varela Campo 9-5, 9-1, 9-3; Andrew Schnell bt Daniel Pascual Martinez 9-5, 9-0, 9-0.
HONG KONG bt CHINA 3-0
Leo Au bt Xiaomin Meng 9-2, 9-3, 9-1; Fung Ji Yang bt Li Zhi Yuan 9-2, 9-1, 9-2; Nelson Chan bt Wang Jun Jie 9-0, 9-2, 9-2.
NEW ZEALAND bt SWEDEN 3-0
Evan Williams bt Johan Detter 9-2, 9-0, 9-3; Alex Grayson bt Truls Olterman 9-5, 9-1, 9-1; Keegan Burkhart bt Alex Christensson 9-5, 10-8, 9-4.—APP
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