LAHORE: Tenth seed Kashif Asif stunned second seed Israr Ahmad by ousting him from the first round of the SNGPL Pakistan International Squash Circuit-II here at the Punjab Squash Complex on Wednesday.

Kashif, who is a wildcard entry, started the match exceptionally well and put Israr under tremendous pressure right from the word go.

Israr, a well experienced international, failed to come up with his original game and bowed down to little-known Kashif with the scores being 11/8, 9/11, 11/9 11/3, 11/6. Kashif required 49 minute on the court to earn the finest victory of his career.

Danish Atlas Khan, who staged a comeback in the squash circuit after a long time, also suffered a defeat at the hands of Ahsan Ayyaz who won 11/9, 10/12, 11/6, 11/8. The match lasted 68 minutes.

Results of the other matches are:

Farhan Mehboob beat Bilal Zakir 11/3, 11/5, 11/8; Farhan Zaman bt Zahir Shah 4/11, 12/10, 11/8, 11/4; Tayyab Aslam bt Khawaja Adil Maqbool 11/4, 11/4, 11/8; Asim Khan bt Waqar Mehboob 12/10, 0/11, 11/9, 11/5; Syed Azlan Amjad bt Umair Zaman 11/9, 11/7, 11/8; Amaad Fareed bt Ali Bukhari 11/9, 11/2, 9/11, 9/11, 11/5.

Women’s section:

Madina Zafar bt Noor-Ain-Ijaz 11/6, 11/5, 11/3; Saima Shaukat bt Amna Fayyaz 11/6, 11/8, 5/11, 5/11, 11/9; Noorul Huda bt Aiman Shahbaz 11/8, 11/5, 12/10; Faiza Zafar bt Komal Khan 11/3, 6/11, 11/4, 11/1; Zahab Khan bt Sibgha Arshad 11/5, 11/7, 11/8; Riffat Khan bt Anam Mustafa Aziz 11/8, 11/0, 11/5;Zoya Khalid bt Moqaddas Javed 11/6, 11/6, 11/2.

Published in Dawn, June 28th, 2018