KARACHI: Top seeds in all three categories had a winning start as they cruised into the last eight of the All-Pakistan Junior Squash Championship at Roshan Khan-Jahangir Khan Squash Complex on Tuesday.

Top seed Zeeshan Zeb, who hailed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, took just 19-minutes to sent local player Fawaz Butt packing straight 11-8, 11-4, 11-2 in boys U-19 first round. Contrary to Zeeshan’s straight triumph, second seed Hassaan Raza was stretched to limits before handing 11-4, 11-2, 12-14, 6-11, 11-9 defeat to qualifier Bilal Islam in half-an-hour.

Top seed Zainab Khan of Sindh and second seed Komal Khan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa justified their seedings by stepping into girls U-19 quarters. The former gets the better of Qatrul Nida 11-2, 11-4, 11-1 while the latter was home over Maryam Irfan 11-4, 11-1, 11-4.

Similarly, Abdullah Nawaz of PAF and Abdul Basit of Sindh, the top two seeds respectively, were also through to the next round.

Results:

Boys U-19:

First round: Zeeshan Zeb (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Fawaz Butt (Sindh) 11-8,.11-4,.11-2; Rafi Khan (Sindh) bt Atif Malik (Punjab) 11-4,.11-9,.13-11; Ahmed Hassan (PAF) bt Waqar Naeem (Punjab) 12-10,.11-6,.11-7; Uzair Shoukat (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Danish Khan (PAF) 11-5,.11-5,.11-5; Khushal Raiz (PAF) bt Hamza Sharif (PAF) 11-6,.7-11,.11-5,.11-7; Moaz Khan (Punjab) bt Ubaidullah (Sindh) 3-11,.8-11,.11-7,.11-5,.11-3; M. Usman (Punjab) bt Shafay Yar Khan (Sindh) 11-9,.11-8,5-11,.11-4; Hassaan Raza (Punjab) bt Bilal Islam (Sindh) 11-4,.11-2,.12-14,.6-11,.11-9.

Boys U-13:

First round: Abdullah Nawaz (PAF) bt Abdullah Arsalan (Punjab) 11-3,.11-4, 11-4; Obaidullah Afzal (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Adnan Zaman (Sindh) 11-6,.11-5,.11-7; Abdullah Nadeem (Punjab) bt Ali Raza (Sindh) 11-1,.11-0,.11-.0; Yashwa Yousuf (Punjab) bt Usman Khan (Sindh) 11-2,.11-4,.11-6; M . Zaman (Sindh) bt M. Talha (Sindh) 11-2,.11-5,.11-5; Saim Asif (Punjab) bt Umer Raza (Sindh) 11-0,.11-2,.11-1; Zuraiz Naeem (Punjab) bt Zohaib Khan (Sindh) 11-3,.12-10,.11-2; Abdul Basit (Sindh) bt Usman Tahir (Punjab) 10-12,.11-4,.11-7,.11-13.11-6.

Girls U-19:

First round: Zainab Khan (Sindh) bt Qatrul Nida (Punjab) 11-2,.11-4,.11-1; Sibgha Arshad (Punjab) bt Alishba Ibad (Sindh) 11-1,.11-0,.11-4; Ilsa Imran (Sindh) bt Alina Zehra (Sindh) 11-2,.11-3,.11-3; Fehmina Asim (Sindh) bt Aina Shaikh (Sindh) 11-3., 11-5,.11-7; Aiman Shahbaz (Punjab) bt Aina Aziz (Sindh) 11-2,.11-1,. 11-1; Amna Malik (Sindh) bt Fajar Hamid (Punjab) 11-2,.11-5,.11-0; Mariam Malik (Sindh) bt Sulaiya Chudhary (Punjab) 11-3, .11-5,.11-7; Komal Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Maryam Irfan (Sindh) 11-4,.11-1,. 11-4.

Wednesday’s fixtures:

Quarter-finals starts at 11am.

Published in Dawn, November 20th, 2019