Hoe Hin White Flower Ointment Asian Junior Squash Championships, Hong Kong Finals

Pakistan retained the 13th Asian Junior Squash Team Event Championship title by beating Malaysia 2-1 in the final at Hong Kong

Farhan Mehboob beat Mohammad Ashraf 9/1, 9/1, 9/4
Elvin Keo beat Waqar Mehboob 9/4, 4/9, 0/9, 9/7, 10/9
Farzan Rashid beat Chuoong Kam Hing 9/2, 9/4, 9/2

Individual Final:
[1] Farhan Mehboob (PAK) bt [2] Abdullah Almezayen (KUW) 9-5, 9-5, 9-3 (51m)
[2] Annie Au (HKG) bt [3/4] Joey Chan (HKG)6-9, 10-8, 9-3, 9-2 (45m)

Semi-finals:
[1] Farhan Mehboob (PAK) bt [3/4] Farzan Rasheed (PAK)9-7, 9-7, 9-1 (49m)
[2] Abdullah Almezayen (KUW) bt [3/4] Waqar Mehboob (PAK) 9-1, 9-7, 9-4 (43m)

[3/4] Joey Chan (HKG) bt [1] Wee Wern Low (MAS) 9-3, 9-3, 9-0 (32m)
[2] Annie Au (HKG) bt [5/8] Misaki Kobayashi (JPN) 9-2, 10-8, 9-0 (31m)

India wins Bronze at Asian Juniors, Hong Kong

The Indian boys recovered from being a match down to defeat hosts Hong Kong 2-1 and win the bronze medal on the final day at the Asian Junior Squash Championships. Sandeep Jangra first on court, fought hard to over come a 2 game deficit to level the scores but was unable to win the fifth against Hong Kong’s #1 Leo Au. Parth Sharma leveled the tie with his game of accurate lengths and precision finishing defeating Fung Ji Yang convincingly. Naresh Kumar playing the decider for India kept his cool to play outstanding attacking squash to defeat Chan Kai Chi in straight sets. 

The Indian team performed marginally better than the last Asian Junior Championships held at India in 2005 where we finished fourth. “In the semi finals if we could have pulled off the match against higher ranked Malaysia against whom we fought well; it would have been wonderful, nevertheless winning the bronze is a great achievement” said National Coach Cyrus Poncha. Consultant Coach Maj Maniam said “Our boys have been working very hard for the past 2 years; they have learnt what it takes to be a professional squash player. I am confident and convinced that in the next two years they will be performing well on the PSA tour.

This is the last junior team championship for all the boys, Sandeep turns 19 years later this month, followed by Naresh later this year and Parth and Harry early next year.” “We have really trained very hard at the ICL Academy for this event and the fruits of our labour equated to a worthy bronze at this championship said Harinder and Parth in unison.”Earlier in the individual event both Ravi Dixit and Ramit Tandon gave a good account of themselves which certainly augurs well for the future of junior squash in India.

Sandeep Jangra lost to Leo Au 9-3, 9-0, 5-9, 5-9, 9-0
Parth Sharma bt Fung Ji Yang 9-5 9-0 9-4
Naresh Kumar bt Chan Kai Chi 9-3, 9-5, 10-8