KARACHI, Jan 7: Pakistan's Amir Atlas Khan and Waqar Mahboob won the boys Under-15 and Under-13 titles of the British Junior Open Squash Championships but Farhan Mahboob lost Under-17 final on Tuesday.

According to the results of the competition made available Amir claimed the Under-15 crown with a 73-minute 10-9 8-10 9-2 10-8 win over Mohamed Reda of Egypt and Waqar Mehboob won the Under-13 final with a 22-minute 9-3 9-0 9-0 victory over Adel Zarka of Egypt.

After losing the first two finals against Pakistan, Egypt struck back in the boys championship as Omar Mosaad Abou Zeid took the Under-17 title with a 4-9 9-5 9-5 6-9 9-7 victory in 73 minutes over the top seeded Farhan.

Farhan, the highest-ranked player in the championship, was a firm favourite to win the title as he had also won the boys under-17 crown last year. The seemingly overwhelming joint stranglehold of Egypt and Pakistan in the 2004 championships was surprisingly broken when the fifth seeded Saurov Ghosal of India took the 33 minutes Under-19 Drysdale Cup final 9-0 9-6 9-1 beating Mahmoud Adel El Said.

India had not previously won a British Junior Open title in the boys championships since they began in 1980. Ghosal, a small fast-footed 17-year-old from Kolkata, has won only local junior events until now, but has been training with Cyrus Poncha on the new championships courts at Chennai over the past year.

In the semifinals Ghosal similarly produced too much pace and a choice of shot for the second seeded Laurence Delasaux of England. El Said, a six-footer who became increasingly confused by Ghosal's performance, had earlier accounted for the top seed, Khalid Atlas Khan of Pakistan, in the quarterfinals.

Short in the limb but fast across the court floor and firm in the arm, 14-year-old Wing Chi, a winner of the Scottish Open Under-15 title last week, when she defeated Malaysia's Wee Wern Lee over a four game final, came through a semifinal earlier against the same player 10-9 9-4 9-2 in 37 minutes.

Egypt's top seeded Omneya Abdel Kawy set the record back on course later in the day when she took her fourth successive British Junior Open Under-19 title beating the third seeded Joshna Chinappa of India 9-4 9-0 9-7 in 24 minutes.

The win brought Kawy level with England's Del Harris as the only players to have taken four British Under-19 titles in a row. Wing Chi, Chinappa and Ghosal were the last remaining players against the trend as Egypt's Raneen El Welily took the Girls Under-17 final from Sarah Badr 9-3 9-0 9-4 in 25 minutes and Heba Alaa Ahmed defeated Merhan Mahmoud 9-5 10-8 9-1 in the 28 minute Under-13 final.

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