Pak players out of Squash World Championship
KARACHI: Pakistan’s journey ended in the $500,000 Squash World Championship in Chicago on Sunday as Shahjahan Khan and Tayyab Aslam crashed out in the first round.
The country’s top player Tayyab was beaten by Victor Crouin from France 11-9, 2-11, 5-11, 6-11 in 41 minutes. Shahjahan was defeated by Chris Simpson from England 10-12, 7-11, 11-13 in 56 minutes.
In 2017, no Pakistani had made it to the world championship. In 2016, Shahjahan lost in the first qualifying round. In 2015, Nasir Iqbal and Farhan Zaman lost in the main first round.
In 2014, Amir Atlas Khan, Danish Atlas Khan, Farhan Mehboob, and Farhan Zaman qualified for the main round where they all lost. Only Nasir Iqbal managed to reach the second round where he was beaten by Saurav Ghosal of India.
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