PSF, PAF to organize series of international squash tournaments

Second round of Chief of the Air Staff-Serena Hotels International Squash Tournament is underway

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Squash Federation (PSF) in collaboration with Pakistan Air Force and Serena Hotels, is organizing a series international squash tournaments.

The events will include Chief of the Air Staff-Serena Hotels International Squash Tournament for Men with US$ 30,000 prize money, Serena Hotels-Condor Pakistan International Squash Tournament for Women with US$ 10,000 from 01 – 05 Apr, 19.

The events will be followed by Serena Hotels-Huawei International for Men at Mushaf Squash Complex, Islamabad from 06 – 10 April, 2019.  In addition to Serena Hotels, this year, Huawei, Condor Mobile, J.Sports Fever 360 (Digital Media Partner) have also joined Pakistan Squash Federation as Co-Sponsors of these events.

The second round matches of the Men and Women’s events were played today (02 Apr,19). Detailed results are as follows:

In Men’s event, Greg Loban (Sco)  bt Henry Leung (Hkg) by 11-9, 11-4, 11-6 (32 Min); Mohamed Elshirbini (Egy) bt  Shehab Essam (Egy) by 11-8, 11-5, 11-6 (33 Min); Mazen Gamal (Egy)  bt Farhan Mehboob (Pak) by 10-12, 11-13, 11-2, 11-4, 11-9 (52 Min); Mostafa Asal (Egy) bt Chi Him Wong (Hkg) by 11-7, 11-6, 11-4 (19 Min); Karim Ali Fathi (Egy)    bt M Asim Khan (Pak) by 11-5, 8-11, 11-4, 11-9 (51 Min); Tayyab Aslam (Pak) bt  Carlos Cornes Ribadas (Esp) by 11-4, 11-5, 12-10 (50 Min); Youssef Soliman (Egy) bt Martin Svec (Cze) by 11-3, 11-6, 11-8  (23 Min) and Mohamed Reda (Egy) bt Tsz Kwan Lau (Hkg) by 11-5, 11-8, 11-7 (27 Min).

In Women’s event, Farida Mohamed (Egy) bt Nimra Aqeel (Pak) by 11-1, 11-1, 11-1 (10 Min); Riffat Khan (Pak) bt  Noor Ul Ain Ejaz (Pak) by 11-8, 11-8, 11-4 (17 Min); Moqaddas Ashraf (Pak) bt Noor ul Huda (Pak) by 11-7, 11-5, 11-8 (18 Min);  Sana Ibrahim (Egy) bt Farah Momen (Egy) by 11-8, 11-9, 3-11, 11-5 (29 Min); Amna Fayyaz (Pak) bt  Sammer Anjum (Pak) by 11-5, 5-11, 11-8, 11-7 (22 Min);  Jihun Lee (Kor) bt Arezou Mousavi (Iri) by 11-1, 11-2 Retd (10 Min); Cindy Merlo (Sui) bt  Yura Choe (Kor)  by 11-7, 10-12, 11-7, 11-2 (30 Min); and Madina Zafar (Pak) bt Rushna Mehboob (Pak) by 5-11, 10-12, 11-3, 11-6, 11-4 (30 Min).

Quarter-finals will be played on 03 April, 2019.