Karachi to host $82,000 PSA copper squash occasion from October 21-25, with 20 males and 24 ladies set to compete for titles
KARACHI:
Pakistan’s Muhammad Asim Khan and Nasir Iqbal will lead the house problem on the Venus ABC Open 2026, which brings collectively a global discipline of gamers for the Skilled Squash Affiliation (PSA) Copper occasion in Karachi from October 21 to 25.
Pakistan may also be represented by Abdullah Nawaz and Azan Ali Khan within the males’s draw, whereas Anam Aziz and Rushna Mehboob will compete within the ladies’s occasion as wildcard entries.
The event affords prize cash of $41,000 every for the lads’s and ladies’s competitions, taking the mixed purse to $82,000. The occasion is a part of the PSA World Tour calendar.
The lads’s draw options 20 gamers, led by high seed Curtis Malik of England, adopted by Egypt’s Karim El Hammamy, Malaysia’s Sanjay Jeeva and Egypt’s Yassin Shohdy.
Perry Malik of England is seeded fifth, whereas Rowan Damming of the Netherlands occupies the sixth seed. Egypt’s Yassin Elshafei is seeded seventh, with Pakistan’s Asim Khan finishing the highest eight.
The sector additionally contains Hong Kong’s Matthew Lai and Chi Him Wong, Malaysia’s Mohammad Syafiq Kamal and Yee Xian Siow, and Pakistan’s Nasir Iqbal. Different entrants embody Ziad Ibrahim of Egypt, Naoki Hayashi of Japan, Salah Eltorgman of Egypt and Ravindu Laksiri of Sri Lanka.
Abdullah Nawaz and Azan Ali Khan will signify Pakistan as wildcard entrants, including additional native curiosity to the lads’s competitors.
The ladies’s draw options 24 gamers, with England’s Lucy Turmel heading the seedings. Egypt’s Amina El Rihany is the second seed, adopted by compatriots Nadine Shahin and Rowan Elaraby in third and fourth place.
France’s Marie Stephan is seeded fifth, Malaysia’s Ainaa Amani sixth, Switzerland’s Cindy Merlo seventh and England’s Hayley Ward eighth.
The remaining discipline contains Hong Kong’s Toby Tse, Germany’s Saskia Beinhard, Egypt’s Nour Khafagy and Malak Fathy, Japan’s Akari Midorikawa, Malaysia’s Wai Yhann Au Yeong and Wai Iynn Au Yeong, Germany’s Katerina Tycova, the Netherlands’ Tessa ter Sluis, Germany’s Maya Weishar, Czech Republic’s Tamara Holzbauerová, Pakistan’s Sana Bahadar, South Korea’s Rui Jean Yek and Egypt’s Habiba Rizk.
Pakistan’s Anam Aziz and Rushna Mehboob have acquired wildcard entries within the ladies’s draw.
With gamers from Pakistan, Egypt, England, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, France, the Czech Republic and South Korea within the entry lists, the Venus ABC Open is about to deliver a various worldwide discipline to Karachi.
