Deaf squash event starts

Published May 9, 2008

LAHORE, May 8: Twenty-four matches were decided in the first two rounds of the 3rd National deaf squash championship, which commenced here at the Punjab Squash complex on Thursday.

There were 16 matches decided in the first round while eight more ties were held in the second phase. Winners of the second round have qualified for the quarter-finals.

Results:

First round: Bilal Tahir bt Sharafat Rasool 9-0, 9-0; Shamoon bt Nadeem Akhtar 9-2, 9-6; Shafiq Qadir bt Hamid Ali 9-2, 9-0; Wasif bt Mubashir Riaz 9-0, 9/0; Bilal Waheed bt Waqeel Amin 9-4, 9-4; Sajid Nawaz bt Ismail 9-0, 9-1; Atiq bt Zahid 9-2, 9-1; Mohammad Ali bt Shafiq Afzal 9-0, 9-0; Asif Saleem bt Imran Khalid 9-0, 9-0; Mohammad Nauman bt Khurram Kamal 9-0, 9-2; Saleem Malik bt Zia-ur-Rehman 9-0, 9-0; Umar Baig bt Adil Imran 9-0, 9-0; Usman Sikander bt Atif Hamid 9-1, 9-1; Salman Nawaz bt Zafar Iqbal 9-1, 9-1; Ali Khalid bt Asadullah Rauf 9-0, 9-0; Bilal Atiq bt Bilal 9-0, 9-1.Second round:

Sajid Nawaz bt Bilal Waheed 9-0, 9-0; Bilal Atiq bt Ali Khalid 9-5, 9/0; Wasif bt Shafiq Qadir 9-1, 9-0; Mohammad Ali bt Atiq 9-5, 9-3; Saleem Malik bt M. Umar 9-0, 9-0; Bilal Tahir bt Shamoon 9-0, 9-0; Mohammad Nauman bt Asif Saleem 9-0, 9-0; Saleem Nawaz bt Usman Sikander 9-5, 9-5.

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