PROSQUASH
Vol 12 No. 4 Issue No. 48 Oct 2008
Chief Patron: Harshvardhan Patil (Minister, Govt of Maharashtra) // Founder Director: Mahendra Agarwal // Directors : Narendra Gour (I.R.S.) Navneet Soni (I.R.S.) //Executive Directors: Anil Diggikar (I.A.S), Bipin Bihari (I.P.S), Bharat Bhushan (I.R.S)// Honored Patrons: Vivek Nair (VC & M.D.The Leela), Sajjan Jindal (Chairman & M.D.  JSW Steel Ltd), Eric  Dastur (Chairman, K.M. Dastur Reinsurance Brokers Pvt. Ltd.) // President: Ashish Gupta // Vice President: Noreena // Secretary General: Sanjay Goyal // Joint Secretary: Vicky Kalludi // Treasurer: Ashok Nagpal // Executive Committee Mem.: Saifee Jani, Rakesh Lakhanpal, Madhukar Musle, Organising Secretary:Karan Mehra, Ajit Singh, Imroz Pathan // Advisor: Pradeep K. Vijayakar // Chief Executive: Vidhya Rao // Technical Director: Amitoj Inder Singh // Chief Co-ordinator: Riaz Mohammed
     
     
 

WORLD JUNIOR SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIP 2008

  
 

Pakistan Reclaim World Title & India finishes on 4th position                               (06/08/2008)

  
 


Indian team at the World Junior Team Championship

  

Pakistan second seeds beat the defending champions Egypt in the 15th World Junior Squash Team Championship at Vitis Squash Club in Zurich. It was Egypt & Pakistan's 3rd meeting in the finals and this time Pakistan made a perfect start when 18-year-old Aamir Atlas Khan, recovered from a game down to beat opponent's El Shorbagy 7-9, 9-2, 9-1, 9-1.  

It took a further 64 minutes for Pakistan to win the title. Their number three player Mohd Shoaib Hassan, grinding out a 9-5, 9-6, 9-2 win over Egypt's Karim Abdel Gawad to clinch their upset over the event favorites. Thus Pakistan won 2-0 and did not have their 3rd player Waqar Mehboob play  Andrew Wagih Shoukry.

With previous title wins in 1982, 2002 and 2004, Pakistan are now celebrating their fourth Men's World Junior Team success - equaling the achievement of England (1990, 1996, 1998 and 2000) but one behind Australia (1980, 1984, 1986, 1988 and 1992).

For the bronze medal third seeds England played surprise opponents India, the fifth
seeds who had reached the semi-finals for the first time in their history.It seems there was going to be an upset when Vikram Malhotra beat British Junior champion
 
  Joe Lee 9-6, 9-0, 0-9, 9-3.

But England fought back and Alex Ingham defeated Ravi Dixit 4-9, 9-3, 9-2, 9-6 in a grilling four setter. Adrian Waller then defeated Aditya Jagtap 9-0, 9-4, 9-4 to ensure their bronze medal.  

After reaching semi-finals for the first time in the history India lost to 2nd seed Pakistan 3-0.  Waqar Mehboob had tough time beating Aditya Jagtap 9-0, 7-9, 10-8, 9-0 in four sets while his counterpart Amir Atlas Khan, world junior champion beat top seed of India Vikram Malhotra  easily 9-0, 9-3, 9-0.  In the best-of-three-games third match, Mohd Shoaib Hassan made the lead 3-0 by beating Ravi Dixit 9-1, 9-0. 

Earlier India has stunned France to reach the semifinal's.  First on court was the flamboyant Vikram who came with all guns blazing. Showing no respect for his higher ranked opponent Gregoire Marche, Vikram kept a very fast pace and hit a series of winners to win the first game 9-1 in double quick time. In the second game Vikram ran up to a 4-0 lead

 
 

CONTD..........2

  
     
     

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