Pakistan’s blended doubles pair Asim Khan and Mehwish Ali additionally advances whereas Nasir Iqbal and Sehrish Ali endure defeat
KARACHI:
Pakistan’s Noor Zaman and Mohammad Ashab Irfan superior to the quarter-finals of the lads’s singles squash competitors on the twentieth Asian Video games in Nagoya on Thursday with straight-game victories.
Noor defeated Kuwait’s Ammar Altamimi 11-4, 11-9, 11-4 to safe his second successive win and a spot within the final eight.
Ashab Irfan additionally produced a snug efficiency, beating Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad Al Nasfan 11-9, 11-3, 11-5.
Each Pakistanis will contest their quarter-finals on Friday.
Pakistan additionally superior within the blended doubles, with Asim Khan and Mehwish Ali recovering from a first-game defeat to beat Japan’s Erisa Sano and Naoki Hayashi 8-11, 11-10, 11-4.
The Pakistani pair will face Hong Kong’s Toby Lam Ye Tsee and Nam Cheuk Lai within the quarter-finals on Friday.
Pakistan’s different blended doubles pair, Nasir Iqbal and Sehrish Ali, have been eradicated after dropping 11-2, 11-6 to Hong Kong’s Hong Ming Tong and Ye Ka Lee within the pre-quarter-finals.
In the meantime Pakistan’s Maria Rind confronted early exit in girls’s boxing 51kg preliminaries when she went right down to Yesugen Oyuntsetseg of Mongolia by means of RSC within the third spherical.
That is the second casualty which Pakistan confronted after Sumama Rahman misplaced his first bout the opposite day.
The Glasgow Commonwealth Video games bronze medallist Fatima Zehra will face Mijgoma Samadova of Tajikistan within the 60kg preliminaries on Saturday. Earlier on the identical day, within the 90kg preliminaries, Irfan Khan will meet Gichae Kim of South Korea.
Pakistan have fielded two male and the identical variety of feminine boxers within the occasion.
Pakistan have final gained a medal within the Asian Video games in 2014 when now professional Mohammad Waseem had clinched bronze.