LAHORE, Aug 8 A heavy schedule of matches in different age categories was completed on the first day of the qualifying round in the Punjab National Junior squash championship at the Punjab Squash Complex on Saturday.

Sunday is the second day of the qualifiers after which the main round will start from Monday.

Results

Under-11

Salman Gilani (NWFP) bt Ibrar Matloob (Punjab) 11-0, 11-1; Ali Karamat (NWFP) bt Usman Alauddin (Punjab) 11-0, 11-4; Shehzad Umar Khan (NWFP) bt Salman Khan (NWFP) 11-5, 11-1; Saad Iqbal (NWFP) bt Abdullah Imran (Punjab) 11-1, 11-1; Waqas Masih (Punjab) bt Walid Zahid (Punjab) 11-3, 11-6; Faizan Khan (NWFP) Zubair Shahid (Punjab) 11-1, 11-8; Sharon Sharif (Punjab) bt Salman Saleem (Punjab) 11-4, 9-11, 11-9; M. Azim (Punjab) bt Ahmed Rafi (Punjab) 11-0, 11-1; Fawad (NWFP) bt Rashid (NWFP) 6-11, 12-10, 7-11; Usmar Hassan (Punjab) bt Arslan Ramzan (Punjab) 11-8, 3-11, 11-7.

Under-13

Uzair Salimi (Punjab) bt Saleem Saeed (NWFP) 11-3, 11-9; M. Ahmed Qazi (Punjab) bt Faizan (NWFP) 11-5, 6-11, 11-9; Muzammil Shabir (Punjab) bt Abdul Ashan (Punjab) 11-5, 11-9; Liaquat Ali (NWFP) bt Zarab Azim (Punjab) 11-1, 11-3; Harith Aslam (Punjab) bt Shahbaz Ashraf (Punjab) 11-0, 11-3; Israr Matloob (Punjab) bt Majid (NWFP) 11-2, 11-3; Amir Qamar (NWFP) bt Hamza Bosan (Punjab) 11-6, 11-9; Shahbaz Khalil (NWFP) bt Essa Usmani (Punjab) 11-1, 11-3; Umar Alauddin (Punjab) bt Usman Raza (Punjab) 11-3, 11-3; Arsalan Aqil (Punjab) bt Hassan Ijaz (Punjab) 11-3, 11-7.

Under-15

Aamad Farid (Punjab) bt M. Ibrahim (NWFP) 11-3, 11-3; Fahim Gul (NWFP) bt Khawar Parvez (Punjab) 11-4, 11-7; Khalilullah (Balochistan) bt Kamran Ehsan (NWFP) 11-9, 11-6; Farhan Ghulam (Punjab) bt Junaid (Punjab) 11-0, 11-1; Abdul Basit (Sindh) bt Kashif Malik (Punjab) 11-9, 11-6; Noman Shahid (NWFP) bt Ahmed Sethi (Punjab) 9-11, 11-5, 11-4; Adil Faqir (NWFP) bt Naeem Khan (NWFP) 11-4, 11-2; Tayyab Aslam (Punjab) bt M. Adil (NWFP) 11-2, 11-2; Adil Khan (NWFP) bt Wajahat Arif (Punjab) 11-3, 11-8; Babrak Khan (NWFP) bt M. Ahmed (Punjab) 11-8, 11-9; Hamza Imtiaz (Punjab) bt Ahsan Wyne (NWFP) 11-5, 11-3; Salman Hashmi (Punjab) bt Ibrar Matloob (Punjab) 11-5, 11-3; Abdullah Bashir (Punjab) bt Haider Khan (NWFP) 11-7, 11-8; Waqas (NWFP) bt Hassan Arif (Punjab) 11-5, 11-7; Haseeb Gul (Punjab) bt M. Mubeen (NWFP) 11-2, 11-2; Kamran Khan (Sindh) bt Hilal Qureshi (NWFP) 11-2, 11-0.

Under-17

Yasin Farooqi (Punjab) bt Samral Iqbal (Punjab) 11-7, 11-4; S. Waqas Ali (Punjab) bt Suhail Shoukat (Punjab) 11-9, 15-13; Faizan Khan (PAF) bt Imran Khan (Punjab) 11-4, 11-5; Umar Owais (Punjab) bt Salman Mehmood (Punjab) 11-3, 9-11, 11-2; M. Amin (NWFP) bt M. Ilyas (Punjab) 11-1, 11-3; M. Naveed (Punjab) bt Asif Malik (Punjab) 12-10, 11-4.

Under-19

Khalid Khan (Punjab) bt Zahid Ali (NWFP) 11-5, 11-6; Umari Afzal (Punjab) bt Ahsan Raza (NWFP) 11-5, 11-3; Arbab Dilawar (NWFP) bt Omar (Punjab) 11-0, 11-3; Bilal Yousuf (Punjab) bt Abdul Ali Khan (Punjab) 11-7, 7-11, 11-4; Mamoon Khan (Punjab) bt Shifa Naqvi (Punjab) 11-3, 12-10; Adeel Asghar (Punjab) bt Fahadullah (NWFP) 11-5, 11-9; Wahab Khan (Punjab) bt Umar Bin Javed (Punjab) 11-6, 11-8; Haroon Samad (Punjab) bt Amir Yaqoob (Punjab) 11-1, 12-10; Shahid Hussain (Punjab) bt Aman Ali (Punjab) 11-7, 11-5; Kazim Naqvi (Punjab) bt Daud Shahid (Punjab) 11-7, 12-10, 11-5; Sadam-ul-Haq (PAF) bt Iyasullah (NWFP) 11-9, 11-5; M. Jahangir (Sindh) bt Amir Nawaz (Punjab) 11-0, 11-4; Mahad Javed (Sindh) bt M. Nouman (NWFP) 11-3, 12-10; Mubashir Khan (Punjab) bt Sajjad Khan (Punjab) 16-14, 12-10.

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