Qualifiers Zaman & Khan Progress In Peshawar by Howard Harding 25 September 2013
- Qualifiers Mansoor Zaman and Nosherwan Khan progressed to the
quarter-finals of the CAS International against expectations after
upsets in today's opening round of the long-established PSA World Tour
Challenger 15 squash event at the PAF Hashim Khan Squash Complex in
Peshawar, Pakistan.
Peshawar-based Mansoor
Zaman, the 33-year-old former world No11, rolled back the years to see
off 17-year-old fellow Pakistani Syed Ali Mujtaba Shah Bokhari 11-8,
11-6, 11-8.
Making his 14th
successive appearance in the Tour event - and a finalist on six
occasions - 2001 champion Zaman will now face Danish Atlas Khan, the
No3 seed who beat wild card Owais Khan 13-15, 3-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-5.
Nosherwan Khan, a
19-year-old also playing in his home town, defeated German-based fellow
countryman Karamatullah Khan 11-4, 11-5, 10-12, 11-9.
The teenager, boasting
a career-high world No 174 ranking, now faces Danish's older brother
Aamir Atlas Khan, the No2 seed and three-time champion from Peshawar.
Austrian Aqeel Rehman,
the highest-ranked unseeded player bidding to become the only
non-Pakistani to make the last eight, went down 11-7, 12-10, 4-11,
12-10 to local boy Farhan Mehboob, the 24-year-old former world No16.
RESULTS: PSA Challenger 15 CAS International, Peshawar, Pakistan
