KARACHI, Feb 26: One more seeded player, this time a foreigner, fell prey in boys’ under-15 second round of the fourth Roshan Khan junior open squash at PN Roshan Khan-Jahangir Khan squash complex on Sunday.

Second seed Ranjeet Singh of India, who arrived from Delhi on Saturday night, met his fate losing in straight to outsider Ahsan Ayaz of the PAF. The latter won the battle 11-6, 11-3, 11-7.

Ranjeet’s compatriot Junaid Muzaffar Thoker, who is eighth seed in the category, got a walkover against Hussain Ejaz.

It may be mentioned that top seed in under-17 Shah Zeb made exit losing to unseeded Abdul Basit in the second round on Saturday.

Teenager Dorsham Khan, a Canadian of Pakistani origin, also completed his engagements when he was removed by top seed Hammas A. Tarar 11-2, 11-5, 11-3 in the boys’ under-13 second round.

According to organisers, matches in the girls’ under-15 and under-19 categories, start on Monday.

Result: Boys’ under-19: Second round: Ali Bokhari bt Mohammad Ali Shan 11-4, 11-6, 11-2; Nouman Khan bt Arbab Dilawar 13-11, 11-8, 11-8; M.

Nouman bt Mansoor Jan 11-7, 3-11, 11-8, 11-7; Ahmed Amin bt Kanwar Abdul Wasay 11-4, 11-4, 11-6; Ammad Fareed bt Malik Omer Balaj 11-9, 13-11, 11-9; Bilal Zakir bt Moeen Rauf 11-7, 11-7, 11-6; Tayyab Aslam bt Amir Yaqoob 11-8, 11-4, 11-3 Suleman Khan bt Salman Jaffar 11-5, 11-8, 11-9.

Boys’ under-17: Third round: Abdul Baist bt M. Ibrahim Noorani 11-1, 11-4, 11-2; Babrak Khan bt M. Waheed 11-6, 9-11, 8-11, 11-5, 11-5; Asim Khan bt Sajid Khan 11-0, 11-1, 11-3; Imam Sher Khan bt Nouman Shahid 11-1, 11-5, 13-11; Salman Zeb bt Adil Khan 8-11, 11-6, 11-2, 11-1; Ali Nasir bt Naeem Khan 11-4, 11-3, 11-7; Ali Imran bt Adil Faqir 11-4, 8-11, 8-11, 11-9, 11-6; Safiullah Kakar bt Salman Hashmi 11-8, 8-11, 5-11, 13-11, 11-9.

Boys’ under-15: Second round: Rishwan bt Liaquat Ali 11-7, 11-8, 11-3; Javed Ali bt Haseeb Gul 11-8, 13-11, 11-2; Junaid Muzaffar Thoker (India) bt Hussain Ejaz (walkover); Zeeshan Khan bt Arslan Aqeel 11-5, 11-1, 11-2; Abbas Shoukat bt Waqas Younas 11-4, 11-4, 11-5; Umar Allauddin bt Shahzad Khan 11-8, 11-8, 9-11, 11-2; Hamza Imtiaz bt Asad Khan 8-11, 11-2, 11-8, 11-5; Ahsan Ayaz bt Ranjeet Singh (India) 11-6, 11-3, 11-7.

Boys’ under-13: Second round: Hammas A Tarar bt Drosham Khan (Canada) 11-2, 11-5, 11-3; Ahmed Ali Khan bt Hasnain Ali 11-4, 11-3, 11-4; Mehran Javed bt Bilal Khan 11-9, 11-13, 11-5, 11-6; Kashif Asif bt Shoaib Mohammad 11-2, 11-6, 11-6; Ukkasha Khan bt Mir Shah 11-1, 11-3, 11-4; Sumaid Rashid bt Farhan Ahmed 8-11, 11-8, 10-12, 11-5, 11-1.

Boys’ under-11: Third round: Ali Karamat bt Zain Ali Jahangir (walkover); Zeeshan Gul bt Rayan Ahmed (walkover); Sami Ullah Khan bt Rizwan Qureshi (walkover); Abbas Zeb bt Uzaifa Ibrahim 11-4, 11-0, 11-3; Mansoor Zaman bt Mujtaba Gandit 11-2, 11-5, 11-4; Salman Saleem bt Uzair Rashid 11-4, 11-7, 13-11; Usman Hassan bt Bilal Islam 11-2, 11-4, 11-3; Mujtaba Raza bt Rayan Atif (walkover).

Monday’s fixtures: Matches start at 10am.

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