Ahsan, Farhan, Tayyab advance in $15,000DG Rangers Sindh National Squash Championship 2018
Muhammad Farhan, Tayyab Aslam, Ali Mujtaba and Ahsan Ayaz defeated their respective opponents to move into the second round of $15,000DG Rangers Sindh National Squash Championship 2018 at the Sindh Rangers Jahangir Khan Squash Complex, Karachi.
Muhammad Farhan, Tayyab Aslam, Syed Ali Mujtaba Bukhari and Ahsan Ayaz defeated their respective opponents to move into the second round of $15,000DG Rangers Sindh National Squash Championship 2018 at the Sindh Rangers Jahangir Khan Squash Complex, Karachi.
Muhammad Farhan made a huge upset in the as he ousted former Asian senior individual squash champion Aamir Atlas Khan 3-1 with the final score line of 11-9, 11-3, 4-11, 11-5 to book berth into the second round.
Defending champion and top seed Tayyab Aslam, runner-up of the DHA Cup last month, won his match straight 11-7, 11-8, 11-5 in 24 minutes.
Squash's Supreme Sensation Ahsan Ayaz overpowered Owais Rasheed by 3-0. World Squash Junior Championship 2018 winner Ahsan didn’t allowed former whipped qualifier Qwais to play freely as the third seed easily sealed victory with the final score line of 11-5, 11-1, 11-4.
The second seed Asim Khan survived scare before getting the better of Saddam-ul-Haq in fully stretched battle 9-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-3, 11-5.The match turned out to be the longest of the day that lasted for 52-minutes.
Asim, the quarter-finalist of the DHA Cup, crashed out in the first round of Pakistan Open and semi-final in the CNS Open.
Syed Ali Mujtaba Bukhari recorded an upset victory against former world junior team champion Abbas Shaukat as he won the match 3-0 in 31 minutes with the final score line of 11-9, 11-8, 11-6.
Top three women’s Riffat Khan, Anam Aziz and Noureena Shams emerged victorious and joined by outsider Alisha Ibad who was declared winner by default as fourth seed Zoya Khalid didn’t turn up.
Sector Commander of Sachal Rangers Brig Abdul Ghaffar graced the opening ceremony in the presence of secretary Sindh Squash Association Rashid Ahmed.
Men’s first round Results:
| Player | vs | Player | Score line |
| Tayyab Aslam (SNGPL) | def | Mehran Javed (Army) | 11-7, 11-8, 11-5 |
| Bilal Zakir (Army) | def | Sikander Khan (Sindh) | 11-5, 11-2, 11-4 |
| Noman Khan (Sindh) | def | Haris Iqbal (Railways) | 7-11, 11-9, 11-1, 9-11, 11-6 |
| Syed Ali Bukhari (Railways) | def | Abbas Shaukat (Army) | 11-9, 11-8, 11-6 |
| Abdul Malik (Baluchistan) | def | M. Naeem (Navy) | 14-12, 3-11, 11-3, 4-11, 11-7 |
| Saad Abdullah (Sindh) | def | Naveed Rehman (Sindh) | 11-2, 11-5, 5-11, 17-15 |
| Waqar Mehboob (ZTBL) | def | Rafi Khan (Sindh) | 11-4, 11-8, 11-6 |
| Ahsan Ayaz (PIA) | def | Owais Rasheed (Sindh) | 11-5, 11-1, 11-4 |
| Israr Ahmed (SNGPL) | def | Raees Khan (KP ) | 11-7, 11-8, 11-9 |
| M. Farhan (SNGPL) | def | Aamir Atlas Khan (WAPDA) | 11-9, 11-3, 4-11, 11-5 |
| Salman Saleem (Railways) | def | Chaudhry Nasir Anwar (Railways) | 11-3, 11-3, 11-2 |
| Zahir Shah (KP) | def | Junaid-ur-Rehman (Sindh) | 11-9, 11-4, 11-7 |
| Ammad Fareed (SNGPL) | def | Waqas Mehboob (PAF) | 13-11, 8-11, 5-11, 12-10, 11-6 |
| M. Uzair Rasheed (Punjab) | def | M. Abdul Qadir (SNGPL) | 11-8, 12-10, 11-8 |
| Zeeshan Zeb (KP) | def | UzairShukat (KP) | 11-2, 11-5, 9-11, 11-7 |
| Asim Khan (SNGPL) | def | Saddam-ul-Haq (Army) | 9-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-3, 11-5 |
Women's Singles First Round:
| Player | vs | Player | Score line |
| Riffat Khan (WAPDA) | def | Hareem Ilyas (Sindh) | 11-0, 11-3, 11-4 |
| Nimra Aqeel (KP) | def | Neha Kamal Khan (Sindh) | 11-1, 11-1, 11-3 |
| Ilas Imran (Sindh) | def | Tehrima Islman (Sindh) | 11-5, 7-11, 11-8, 11-9 |
| Komal Khan (KP) | def | Hira Aqeel (KP) | 11-6, 11-6, 11-9 |
| Noor-ul- Huda (SNGPL) | def | Sonia Salman (Sindh) | 11-2, 11-0, 11-2 |
| Noor-ul-Ain Ejaz (SNGPL) | def | Aina Aziz (Sindh) | 11-2, 11-0, 11-1 |
| Rushana Mehboob (ZTBL) | def | Maira Saleem (Sindh) | 11-0, 11-5, 11-0 |
| Alisha Ibad (Sindh) | w/o | Zoya Khalid (Sindh) | |
| Noureena Shams (KP) | def | Soaliya Rasheed (Sindh) | 11-4, 9-11, 11-6, 11-1 |
| Fehmina Asim (Sindh) | def | Rubashia Iftikar (Sindh) | 11-0, 11-1, 11-1 |
| Zainab Khan (Sindh) | def | Kainat Khan (KP) | 11-6, 11-5, 11-7 |
| Saima Shoukat (Wapda) | def | Alina Zohra (Sindh) | 11-1, 11-4, 11-2 |
| Moqaddas Ashraf (WAPDA) | def | Maheen Masood (Sindh) | 11-3, 11-0, 11-5 |
| Aiman Shahbaz (SNGPL) | def | Aina Sheikh (Sindh) | 11-2, 11-4, 11-4 |
| Meyral Shaikh (Sindh) | def | Nabiha Imran (Sindh) | 11-6, 11-7, 11-6 |
| Anam Aziz (Sindh) | def | Sibgha Arshad (Punjab) | 11-7, 11-2, 11-6 |
