KARACHI: Pakistan Navy has doubled the prize money of the second CNS All Pakistan Squash Championship that is to be held at RKJK Squash Complex here from Wednesday (today).
“We have doubled the prize money from Rs1.5 million offered last year to Rs3 million this year,” said Tauqeer Ahmed Khwaja of Navy during a press briefing on Tuesday.
He added that 54 matches will be played at the newly built 4-wall glass court and Nasir Iqbal, the defending champion, is the top seed in men’s category.
“The qualifying round is of 16 places including four local wild cards, and the main round is also of 16 places including one wildcard for both men and women categories,” said Tauqeer.
According to the entry list, KPK’s Waqar Mehboob, Saddam-ul-Haq, and Bilal Zakir are second, third, and fourth seed, respectively.
Punjab’s Tayyab Alsam, Mehmood Mehboob, Israr Ahmed, and Azlan Khawar are seeded fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth, respectively. KPK’s Khushal Riaz Khan is seventh seed, Navy’s Anas Khan is 10th seed and Mutahir Ali Shah from KPK is 11th seed while Navy’s M Ali has been given wildcard.
Earlier, Pakistan finished Asian Junior Individual Squash Championship with three medals on Sunday in Dalian, China.
Nauman Khan and Ahmad Rayyan Khalil both played the final of Under-13 age category. Nauman beat Ahmad with a game score of 9/11, 11/8, 6/11, 11/3, 11/9.
Pakistan have won the title in the U13 category of the Asian Junior Squash Championship for the first time since 2016, when Asadullah won the trophy.
In the Under-17 category, Abdullah had Nawaz lost to Low Wa Sem of Malaysia 4/11, 11/6, 6/11, 12/10, 7/11 on Saturday and as a result managed to bag the bronze medal.
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