Top seed Tayyab rout Bilal 3-0 in DG Rangers National Squash 2018 second round
Top seed Tayyab Aslam routed Bilal Zakir in the second round of the 12th DG Rangers (Sindh) National Squash 2018 at Sindh Rangers Jahangir Khan Squash Complex North Nazimabad, Karachi.
Top seed Tayyab Aslam routed Bilal Zakir in the second round of the 12th DG Rangers (Sindh) National Squash 2018 at Sindh Rangers Jahangir Khan Squash Complex North Nazimabad, Karachi.
It was expected that Bilal, who has won the Asian Junior team title for Pakistan and also has vast experience of playing in PSA events, would give tough fight to Tayyab, but it proved to be a one-sided affair, as Tayyab simply outclassed Bilal by 3-0. In the first game, Tayyab prevailed over Bilal and easily won the game 11-2. The second game was almost identical to the first one, as Tayyab was not in a mood to let Bilal off the hook and simply outclassed him to take the game 11-2.
After losing two games without showing any signs of fight, Bilal finally settled down and showed his class as he took heavy lead but Tayyab then changed gears and first level the score at 8-8 and then wrapped up the game by 11-8, thus registered an impressive 3-0 victory. Tayyab will now face Syed Ali Mujtaba Bukhari in the quarterfinal.
Unseeded Fehmina Asim pulled off a major upset when she humbled third seed Noureena Shams to book a place in the quarter-finals by 3-0 in 11 minutes with the scores of 11-1, 11-3 and 11-2.
Men’s singles Second round Results:
| Player | vs | Player | Score line |
| Tayyab Aslam (SNGPL) | def | Bilal Zakir (Army) | 11-2, 11-2, 11-8 |
| Syed Ali Bukhari (Railways) | def | Noman Khan (Sindh) | 11-8, 11-13, 11-7, 11-7 |
| Abdul Malik (Baluchistan) | def | Saad Abdullah (Sindh) | 7-11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-6 |
| Ahsan Ayaz (PIA) | def | Waqar Mehboob (ZTBL) | 11-8, 11-5, 13-11 |
| Israr Ahmed (SNGPL) | def | M. Farhan (SNGPL) | 11-6, 11-6, 11-4 |
| Zahir Shah (KP) | def | Salman Saleem (Railways) | 11-4, 11-4, 11-7 |
| Ammad Fareed (SNGPL) | def | M. Uzair Rasheed (Punjab) | 8-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-4 |
| Asim Khan (SNGPL) | def | Zeeshan Zeb (KP) | 9-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-9 |
| Player | vs | Player | Score line |
| Riffat Khan (WAPDA) | def | Nimra Aqeel (KP) | 11-2, 11-9, 11-9 |
| Komal Khan (KP) | def | Ilsa Imran (Sindh) | 8-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-4 |
| Noor-ul-Huda (SNGPL) | def | Noor-ul-Ain Ejaz (SNGPL) | 11-8, 11-6, 17-15 |
| Rushana Mehboob (ZTBL) | def | Alisha Ibad (Sindh) | 11-0, 11-2, 11-2 |
| Fehmina Asim (Sindh) | def | Noureena Shams (KP) | 11-1, 11-3, 11-2 |
| Saima Shoukat (Wapda) | def | Zainab Khan (Sindh) | 11-8, 11-7, 11-4 |
| Moqaddas Ashraf (WAPDA) | def | Aiman Shahbaz (SNGPL) | 11-3, 11-6, 11-6 |
| Anam Aziz (Sindh) | def | Meyral Shaikh (Sindh) | 11-4, 11-7, 11-4 |
