‘Success due to team effort’

Published April 20, 2005

TAIF, April 19: Rashid Malik, Pakistan tennis coach said that the success of his team in the Islamic Games was due to good team effort. “The boys did a remarkable job under the circumstances when Pakistan was not at the medals table”, Malik told this reporter. 1 He said that Aisam did a good job by winning two crucial matches in five hours which was an outstanding feat.

He said that Kuwait, Turkey, Indonesia and Algeria had a good number of players of international standard.

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