Squash: Pakistan duo storms into quarters
Danish Atlas Khan and Yasir Butt overpowered higher-ranked opponents to reach the quarter-finals of the event.
KARACHI:
A pair of Pakistanis led a day of upsets in the opening round of the EBS Dayton Open when qualifiers Danish Atlas Khan and Yasir Butt overpowered higher-ranked opponents to reach the quarter-finals of the event in Dayton. Danish Atlas, a 17-year-old from Peshawar, came back from a game down to beat Egypt’s former world junior champion Amr Khaled Khalifa 10-12, 11-5, 11-9, 11-7. Meanwhile, his contemporary Yasir Butt, a 23-year-old from Lahore, battled for 85 minutes to tame England’s Robbie Temple 15-13, 7-11, 11-7, 8-11, 11-9.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2011.
A pair of Pakistanis led a day of upsets in the opening round of the EBS Dayton Open when qualifiers Danish Atlas Khan and Yasir Butt overpowered higher-ranked opponents to reach the quarter-finals of the event in Dayton. Danish Atlas, a 17-year-old from Peshawar, came back from a game down to beat Egypt’s former world junior champion Amr Khaled Khalifa 10-12, 11-5, 11-9, 11-7. Meanwhile, his contemporary Yasir Butt, a 23-year-old from Lahore, battled for 85 minutes to tame England’s Robbie Temple 15-13, 7-11, 11-7, 8-11, 11-9.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 12th, 2011.