LAHORE: Pakistan’s national U-19 beach volleyball team, consisting of two players, namely Zarnab and Afaq, will participate in the Asian Youth Beach Volleyball Championship being held in Thailand from March 23 to 25.

The top two teams of this tournament will qualify for the Summer Youth Olympics being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in October, 2018.

A total of 24 countries are participating in this tournament. Pakistan was placed in Group B with Cambodia and Qatar. Pakistan has today defeated both Qatar and Cambodia with a score of 2-0 sets each.

Consequent upon today’s result, Pakistan has been declared No. 1 in its group and will play against Laos on Saturday. If Pakistan wins, then it will play in the evening against the winners of Oman and Japan.

The winners of this contest will go to the semi-finals which will be played on March 25.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2018

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