KARACHI, May 2: Promising Aamir Atlas Khan is one match away to enter the main rounds of Liverpool 08 Open squash championship following his triumph over Namibia’s Ryan Thomson in the first qualifying round on Monday.

According to the details of the international squash circuit's richest ranking event in England for five years made available on Tuesday, Aamir took only 31 minutes to outwit Thompson 11-5, 11-7, 11-8 to enter the final qualifying rounds of the where he will face Egypt's Ramay Ashour.

But there was disappointment for another Pakistani, Arshad Iqbal Burki, who was thrashed by Australian Paul Davis in straight games. Davis who is ranked 40 places lower than Arshad in the rankings won the match easily with the score of 11-5, 11-8, 11-5 in 34 minutes.

Pakistan number one, Shahid Zaman is the other player of the country featuring in US$77,500 competition. He has been placed in the main rounds of the tournament starting from Wednesday.

Firstt qualifying round results:

Mark Chaloner (ENG) bt Andrew Breen (ENG) 11-2, 11-5, 11-4 (16m); Lee Drew (ENG) bt Kris Meadows (ENG) 11-3, 11-6, 11-7 (20m); Jean-Michel Arcucci (FRA) bt Chris Simpson (ENG) 2-11, 7-11, 11-4, 11-8, 11-5 (66m); Ritwik Bhattacharya (IND) bt Rob Sutherland (WAL) 11-10 (3-1), 10-11 (0-2), 11-7, 11-2 (42m); Ben Garner (ENG) bt Stephen Siviter (ENG) 11-9, 11-7, 11-10 (5-3) (29m); Stacey Ross (ENG) bt Jonathan Harford (ENG) 11-9, 11-5, 11-5 (45m); Liam Kenny (IRL) bt Jethro Binns (WAL) 11-4, 11-9, 11-9 (36m); Jesse Engelbrecht (ZIM) bt Saurav Ghosal (IND) 11-7, 11-8, 11-8 (31m); Scott Handley (ENG) bt Shaun le Roux (ENG) 7-11, 11-5, 11-5, 3-11, 11-8 (42m); Alister Walker (ENG) bt Julien Balbo (FRA) 11-8, 11-6, 11-6 (34m); Aamir Atlas Khan (PAK) bt Ryan Thompson (NAM) 11-5, 11-7, 11-8 (31m); Hisham Mohd Ashour (EGY) bt Robbie Temple (ENG) 11-9, 11-4, 11-6 (24m); Simon Rosner (GER) bt Keith Thomason (ENG) 11-7, 11-8, 11-8 (19m); Daryl Selby (ENG) bt Darren Lewis (ENG) 11-4, 11-3, 11-2 (29m); Paul Davis (AUS) bt Arshad Iqbal Burki (PAK) 11-5, 11-8, 11-5 (34m); Dan Jenson (AUS) bt Tom Richards (ENG) 11-9, 11-2, 11-9 (34m).-—Agencies