News Desk
\nISLAMABAD
\nTop seed Tayyab Aslam and Madina Zafar won the men and women\u2019s titles respectively after nail-biting contests in the Pakistan International Squash Tour\u00adnament here at Mushaf Squash Complex on Friday. In men\u2019s final, both Tayyab and his smart opponnet Nasir Iqbal exhibited excellent show of skills and gave tough time to each other from start to end in five sets that lasted for 68 minutes. Tayyab took a good start and won the first set 11-7.
\nBut in next two sets, he was supervised to see Nasir Iqbal\u2019s aggressive game. Nasir won next both sets in fashion 11-6 and 11-3. However, in fourth set once again both players played aggressively but inform Tayyab managed to finish 12-10 to push the match into decider, where again after close contest he managed to win 13-11 set and final.
\nThe final match was one of the most exciting encounters of the championship. Currently, Tayyab Aslam is top ranked player of the country and before this championship he had 43th international ranking and now after winning this international event worth $ 12000, according to Secretary PSF Tahir Sultan, he will get some five to six ranking points.
\nMeanwhile, in women\u2019s event, third seed Madina Zafar, who moved into final after defeating top seed Amna Fayyaz continued her winning streak and upset her elder sister and second seed Faiza Zafar in the final that lasted for 31 minutes.
\nBoth sisters played aggressive game in the well contested five-set match which ultimately won by Madina Zafar with game score 11-8, 11-1, 2-11, 7-11, 11-9. Squash legend Qamar Zaman, who is also Vice President of Pakistan Squash Federation was the chief guest at the closing ceremony and gave away trophies and prizes finalists of both men and women event.
\nSpeaking to Dawn, Secretary PSF Tahir Sultan said that overall performance of players remained very good in the championship. \u201cSeniors and juniors players played good game. Juniors Hamza Sharif, Noor Zaman and Farhan Hashmi also showed excellent talents, so we are hopeful these players will play positive game in upcoming international events,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
News Desk ISLAMABAD Top seed Tayyab Aslam and Madina Zafar won the men and women\u2019s titles respectively after nail-biting contests in the Pakistan International Squash Tour\u00adnament here at Mushaf Squash Complex on Friday. In men\u2019s final, both Tayyab and his smart opponnet Nasir Iqbal exhibited excellent show of skills and gave tough time to each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n