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1 week ago | dawn.com | Anushe Engineer |Jawed Naqvi

Pakistan dominated the squash courts in Melbourne as sisters Mehwish, Sehrish and Mahnoor Ali advanced to the semi-finals of the Australian Junior Open on Tuesday. Top seed Mehwish is looking to defend her U-17 title after setting up a semi-final with Australian Tina Ma, who won the U-15 title at last year’s edition of the Australian Junior Open. Mehwish won her quarter-final in straight games after dominating Hong Kong’s Maeghan Wang 11-6, 11-3, 11-2 at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre.

2 weeks ago | dawn.com | Anushe Engineer |Khurram Abbas |Khurram Husain

Noor Zaman stormed to victory on Thursday in front of a full-house crowd as he beat Egypt’s Karim El Torkey 3-2 in the men’s final of the U23 World Squash Championship in Karachi. Zaman defeated Malaysia’s Ameeshenraj Chandran yesterday to reach the final after Chandran retired during the third game of the last-four while trailing 6-11, 2-11, 4-6. Torkey, who defeated seed Ibrahim Elkabbani, was up by two games in the final with Zaman looking for reprieve, narrowly took the game from the Egyptian.

2 weeks ago | dawn.com | Anushe Engineer

KARACHI: Noor Zaman is a step away from Under-23 World Squash Championships glory after seeing off the challenge of Malaysia’s Ameeshenraj Chandran in front of a roaring home crowd and a beaming grandfather, former squash world number one Qamar Zaman, at the Creek Club here on Wednesday. Chandaran had ousted home hope Hamza Khan in the quarter-finals but it was a different story against Noor as he retired during the third game of the last-four while trailing 6-11, 2-11, 4-6.

2 weeks ago | dawn.com | Anushe Engineer

KARACHI: Noor Zaman kept Pakistan’s medal hopes alive as he breezed through to the semi-finals while compatriot Hamza Khan was ousted from a podium finish at the Under-23 World Squash Championships on Tuesday. The 21-year-old put on a show for the home crowd in Creek Club’s sole glass court with an easy 11-7 win in the first game against France’s Melvil Scianimanico.

2 weeks ago | dawn.com | Anushe Engineer

KARACHI: Noor Zaman and Hamza Khan gave hosts Pakistan something to cheer about as they cruised to the next round at the inaugural Under-23 World Squash Championships at Creek Club here on Sunday. Second seed Noor, 21, wowed the home crowd in the snazzy glass court as he eased past Kuwait’s Hussain Alzaatari 11-6, 5-11, 11-4, 11-3 in 20 minutes. Over in Court 1, former world junior champion Hamza dominated against Romania’s Radu Stefan Pena 11-3, 11-1, 11-5 to breeze through to the round-of-16.