Easy sailing of all the top seeded players of five different age group categories after recording victories against their respective rivals in the first round of the Chief of the Air Staff National Junior Squash Championship being played here at PAF Hashim Khan Squash Complex on Thursday. In the first round of the Under-19 category top seed Saif Ullah of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recorded a thrilling five sets victory against Shahzad Ali of Punjab. Both Saif Ullah and Shahzad Ali were stretched to five sets encounter witnessed by capacity crowd present on this occasion. The score was 11-6, 12-10, 11-13, 10-12 and 11-9.
In the second match Manzoor Zaman defeated Furqan Ahmad by 3-0, Zeeshan Zeb beat M. Junaid Khan 3-0, the score was 11-6, 11-6 and 11-9, Zeeshan Malik beat Owais Rashid of Punjab by 3-1, the score was 10-12, 11-9, 11-7 and 11-8, Zeeshan Gul beat Daud Khan by 3-0, the score was 11-9, 11-3 and 11-7, Oun Abbas of Punjab beat Qamar Ul Islam Sindh by 3-0, the score was 11-9, 11-8 and 11-8, Saad Ullah of Sindh beat Mobeen of KP by 3-0, the score was 11-7, 11-8 and 11-9, Uzair Rasheed of Punjab beat Muhammad Ali Punjab by 3-0, the score was 11-6, 11-9 and 11-5.
In the Under-17 top seed Uzair Shoukat of PAF beat Mavia Hussain KP by 3-0, the score was 11-8, 11-7 and 11-9, Rashid Daulat of PAF beat Ihtisham Riaz of Punjab by 3-0, Ahmad Hassan of KP beat Abdul Wajid 3-1, the score was 13-11, 10-12, 11-8 and 11-9, Naveed Rehman Sindh beat Arbab Mehran by 3-0, the score was 11-8, 11-7 and 11-6, Farhan Hashmi of Punjab beat Shahab Khan of Punjab by 3-1, the score was 11-7, 11-7 and 11-9, Hamza Sharif of PAF beat Zohair Shahid of Punjab 3-2 in a thrilling match, the score was 10-12, 8-11, 11-9, 12-10 and 12-10, Hasan Raza of Punjab beat Malik Abdul Moiz of Punjab by 3-0, the score was 11-9, 11-8 and 11-8, Muhammad Saqib Iqbal of PAF beat Rafi Khan of Sindh 3-1, the score was 11-7, 11-9, 8-11 and 11-8.
In the other matches Asad Ullah Khan PAF beat Bilal Ahmed KP by 3-0, M. Ashab Irfan Punjab beat Afaq Khan 3-0, Waleed Khalil beat Fawad Khan by 3-0, Khushal Riaz PAF beat Ghulam Muhammad KP by 3-0, the score was 11-9, 12-10 and 13-11, Hammad Khan KP beat Waji Ullah by 3-0, Hasnain Ali of Balochistan beat Tayyab Ali Punjab by 3-0, Noor Zaman of PAF beat Abbas Nawaz KP by 3-0 and Ali Sher PAF beat Mubashir Ali KP by 3-0.
In the Under-13 Muhammad Ammad of PAF beat Zain Khattak of KP by 3-0, the score was 11-9, 11-4 and 11-6, Yasin Khattak KP beat Usman Nadeem of Sindh by 3-2, the score was 11-5, 6-11, 7-11, 12-10 and 11-9, Huzaifa Ibrahim of Sindh beat Raheem Abbas by 3-0, Fahad Sharif of KP beat Majid Ahmad KP by 3-0 and Huzaifa Zahid of PAF beat Ahsan Ali Punjab 3-0, Muhammad Khan KP beat Sheraz Akbar by 3-0, Mutahir Ali Shah beat Azlan Khawar of Punjab, Muhammad Hamza of PAF beat Kaleem Ullah of Punjab
In the Under-11 category top seed Humam Ahmad of PAF recorded victory against Muhammad Hanif of PAF by 3-0, the score was 11-4, 11-5 and 11-6. Humam Ahmad fully dominated the proceedings and did not give much time to Muhammad Hanif to strike back. In the other matches Muhammad Zubair of Punjab beat Abdul Basit of Punjab 3-0, Hassan Zahid KP beat Moin Uddin by 3-0, Saki Ullah PAF beat Ibrahim Mohib 3-1, the score was 10-12, 11-9, 11-7 and 11-6, Abdullah Nawaz of KP beat Zuraiz Naeem of Punjab 3-0, the score was 11-9, 11-7 and 11-7, Mubeen Khan of PAF beat Saif Ullah of KP by 3-0, Abdulah Nadeem of Punjab beat Zohaib Khan of Sindh by 3-0, Anas Bukhari of Punjab beat Shoaib Afzal of KP.