Sadia finishes sixth at Asian event

Head coach Gul satisfied with player’s performance at squash championship.

KARACHI: Pakistan’s Sadia Gul finished sixth in the girls U17 category at the Asian Junior Individual Squash Championship after losing her fifth-place play-off against Hong Kong’s Lam Wing Hei Jannis 3-1 in Jordan yesterday.

Sadia put up a fight against the joint fifth-seed in all
the four games but her inability to finish off the games cost her as she lost with game scores of 11-8, 12-10, 8-11 and 11-8.

The youngster, who hails from Peshawar and was recently snubbed by the Pakistan Squash Federation for the Asian Senior Individual Championship, vowed to make a strong comeback.

Head coach Jamshed Gul praised the player for putting up a brave fight in all her matches.

“Sadia has improved a lot since last year,” Gul told The Express Tribune. “She never went down without a fight in any of the matches. She has great potential and will only get better with exposure and experience. For me, sixth position is quite satisfactory.”

Published in The Express Tribune, June 29^th, 2013.

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