The Qatar Junior Open squash, which began on Saturday at the Khalifa Tennis and Squash Complex, witnessed quite a few upsets on the first two days. While the top seeds in the various age categories had it easy, many fell to unseeded opponents.

In the boys’ under-13 category, Pakistan’s Abbas Zeb beat eighth-seeded Bader MS KH Almoghrebi from Kuwait 11-3 11-2 11-8, while Qatar’s Rashid Ali al-Harib, seeded seventh, went down to Yousef Alnajjar of Kuwait 2-11 6-11 5-11. Also in the under-13 section, Qatar’s sixth-seeded Abdulaziz Khaled al-Ishaq lost to Mohamed Bilal Islam of Pakistan 6-11 3-11 3-11.

There was an upset in the under-19 category too, when Ahsan Ayaz Khan of Pakistan beat third-seeded Malaysian Puvendren Subramaniam 11-9 11-3 11-5. The event continues till March 5.

Results

Boys U-11: Jassim Talal al-Thani w/o Mohamed Abdulla al-Kubaisi; 5-Ibrahim Ahmed Darwish bt Mohamed Tareq Alemadi 11-1 11-2 11-0; 3-Mohamed Tarek Ouda bt Saleh Umar Zaman 11-2 11-0 11-2; 4-Youssef Essam Farag w/o Thamer Ali al-Naimi; 3-Hamoud AHM Aljenaidel (Kuwait) bt Hayder Mohammed I al-Dulaimi (Iraq) 11-4 11-3 11-9; 2-Pouya Shafieifard (Iran) bt Abdulla Ahmed al-Qahtani 11-1 11-0 11-2; 1-Yousef Ahmad Elsaka bt Abdulaziz Saleh Daoud 11-0 11-0 11-0; 8-Abdulaziz Talal al-Thani bt Humoud Salah Abu-Hussain 11-6 5-11 5-11 11-4 11-5

Boys U-13: Ali Saeed al-Dosari bt Jaber Saleh Daoud 11-4 11-7 11-7; Tameem Abdulrahman Alaji bt Ali Ahmed al-Qahtani 8-11 11-9 11-3 11-8; Abbas Zeb (Pakistan) bt 8-Bader MS KH Almoghrebi (Kuwait) 11-3 11-2 11-8; Yousef EMR Alnajjar (Kuwait) bt 7-Rashid Ali al-Harib 11-2 11-6 11-5; Hussein Ayad M al-Tameemi (Iraq) bt Ahmad Tariq Alobaidli 11-6 11-7 11-6; Abbas Zeb (Pakistan) w/o Hussein Ali Jihad al-Bawi (Iraq); Naveed Rehman (Pakistan) bt Eissa Soud al-Aqeedi 11-2 11-2 11-0; Hayder Mohamed I Al-Dulaimi (Iraq) bt Ali Saeed al-Dosari 11-2 11-9 11-8; Mohamed Bilal Islam (Pakistan) bt Jaber Saleh Daoud 11-1 11-0 11-1; Yousef EMR Alnajjar (Kuwait) bt Tameem Abdulrahman Alaji 11-3 11-0 11-2; Abdulaziz AMH Jasem (Kuwait) bt Ali Ahmed al-Qahtani 11-0 11-1 11-1; Mohamed Bilal Islam (Pakistan) bt 6-Abdulaziz Khaled al-Ishaq 11-6 11-3 11-3; 5-Jaafar Ferman Hasan (Iraq) bt Nayef Saleh Daoud 11-0 11-0 11-0; 4-Waleed Umar Zaman bt Naveed Rehman (Pakistan) 13-11 4-11 11-5 11-6; 2-Mohamed Danial Gharooni (Iran) bt Abdulaziz AMH Jasem (Kuwait) 11-9 11-8 11-7; 1-Vasudef Vasanthan (Malaysia) bt Hussein Ayad M al-Tameemi (Iraq) 11-0 11-1 11-4

Boys U-15: Armaan Jindal (India) bt 8-Hamad Mohamed al-Amri 11-8 9-11 11-5 11-2; M Daroosham Khan (Pakistan) bt 6-Mohamed Mostafa Sahib (Iraq) 11-8 11-3 11-3; 3-Eisa A GH A Mohammad (Kuwait) bt Mohamed Salem Alyafei 11-1 11-0 11-2; 4-Farbod Keyvanfar (Iran) bt Yousif Barghash Aadea (Iraq) 11-2 11-2 11-8; 1-Alireza Shameli (Iran) bt Ali Tareq Alemadi 11-2 11-1 11-0; 7-Ali Alqallaf (Kuwait) bt Jassim Salah Abu-Hussain 11-0 11-1 11-3; 2-Ahmad Fairoz al-Homaidi w/o Mohamed TH Ali (Kuwait); 5-Amirhossein Feizpour (Iran) bt Aon Abbas (Pakistan) 11-7 15-13 10-12 14-12

Boys U-17: 6-Mohamed Ali Farhat (Iran) bt Kashif Arif (Pakistan) 11-7 11-7 11-2; 3-Khaled AHM Aljenidel (Kuwait) bt Fong Min Jen (Malaysia) 11-3 11-6 11-5; 4-Abdulwahab al-Ishaq bt Abd El-Aziz Ihab Omeira 11-4 11-8 11-7; 2-Umair Umar Zaman bt 7-Omar Ashraf Hassan 11-9 12-10 11-5; 1-Abdulla Hashem al-Sultani (Iraq) bt 8-Mujtaba Raza (Pakistan) 11-6 11-6 11-6; Abd El-Aziz Ihab Omeira bt 6-Mohamed Ali Farhat 12-10 7-11 2-11 11-9 11-1

Boys U-19: Asfandyar Khan Orakzai (Pakistan) bt Mudassir Shahi (Pakistan) 11-8 11-8 11-9; 6-Salem Yousef al-Malki bt Yousef Abdulla al-Kubaisi 11-5 6-11 11-6 11-6; 7-Abdulrahman Ali al-Khalaf w/o Abdulraouf Aboubakr Abdelzaher; 7-Ismail Rauf (Pakistan) bt Hamza Imtiaz (Pakistan) 11-5 11-9 11-8; 6-Salman Hashmi (Pakistan) bt Abdul Basit (Pakistan) 11-2 11-7 11-4; 5-Zeeshan Shaukat Ali Khan (Pakistan) bt Sikandar Khan (Pakistan) 11-8 11-5 11-9; Ahsan Ayaz Khan (Pakistan) bt 3-Puvendren Subramaniam (Malaysia) 11-9 11-3 11-5; 2-Mohamed Asim Khan (Pakistan) bt Ahmad M Noureldin Eleyan 11-3 11-5 11-6; 4-Syed Azlan Amjad Iqbal bt Kibriya Mohamed (Pakistan) 11-4 11-6 11-3; 8-Sadam Sarhan Mehawesh bt Mohamed Sheraz Touqeer (Pakistan) 11-3 11-2 11-3; 1-Farzad Shoukohi (Iran) bt Faisal Assim Khudair (Iraq) 12-10 11-8 11-9; Ahmad M Noureldin Eleyan bt Mudassir Shahi (Pakistan) 11-2 11-8 11-7; Faisal Assim Khudair (Iraq) bt Asfandyar Khan Orakzai (Pakistan) 11-6 11-5 11-9

(Qatar unless mentioned)