LAHORE: Top seed Tayyab Aslam comfortably defeated Mohammad Ashab to cruise into the quarter-final of the CM Punjab International Squash Championship here at the Punjab Squash Complex on Tuesday.

Tayyab spent just 32 minutes to crush Ashab 11-7, 6-11, 11-9, 11-7.

In other matches, in-form Waqar Mehboob outclassed Mohammad Farhan 11-4, 11-5, 11-5 in 17 minutes; Salman Saleem struggled in in overcoming the challenge from Zahir Shah 7-11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-2, 11-8; Mehran Javed defeated Mohammad Abdul Qadir 3-1; Israr Ahmed outplayed Zeeshan Zeb 11-7, 11-5, 11-5; Noor Zaman overwhelmed Mohammad Farhan Hashmi 11-9, 13-11, 6-11, 11-9 in 40 minutes; Waqas Mehboob blanked Hamza Sharif 3-0 and Asim Khan downed Saeed Abdul 3-0.

Published in Dawn, December 29th, 2021