Consistent national winner Zeeshan Zeb and former Pakistan No.1 Rushna Mehboob clinched the titles while promising Muhammad Ashab Irfan of Punjab took the National U19 trophy in the International Satellite 1000 US $ Men and Women Squash Tour-nament played here at Qamar Zaman Squash Com-plex on Saturday.
Secretary Higher education Department, KP Daud Khan was the chief guest who witnessed the three thrill-packed finals of the International Satel-lite Men and Women and National U19 Tournament organized by KP Squash Association with the col-laboration of Pakistan Squash Federation and Direc-torate of sports KP.
In the Men final both Zeeshan Zeb and Waqar Mehboob played well and gave each other a tough fight but poor refereeing marred the overall beauty of squash. However, some excellent strokes includ-ing perfect nicks, key drops and a lot of smashes were also enjoyed by the sitting spectators.
Waqar Mehboob was up at the end of the first set when he made a quick show of winning the set at 4-11. Waqar was in excellent form and it looked like he would have won the final in straight sets but all of the sudden the dejected Waqar Mehboob lost his patience and gave the final to Zeeshan Zeb.
Zeeshan Zeb, also played well and hit some ex-cellent nicks during the course of the final match witnessed by a jam-packed spectators in the Qamar Zaman Squash Complex. It was the second set when Waqar Mehboob was leading by 3-7 and 4-10 but Zeeshan Zeb came back into the Game and tied the tally first at 10-10, 11-11, 12-12, and 13-13 and then took the set by 15-13.
Waqar and sometimes Zeeshan Zeb have ques-tioned some of the referee decisions in the set but all know at the end the decision of the referee is final either wrong for one or the others, however, both played well.
It was the similar situation in the third set wherein both Zeeshan Zeb (Pak) and Waqar Me-hboob (Pak) were stretched to 15-13. Waqar was leading as usual and even reached 2-9 but then Zeeshan came back and tied the tally at 9-9, 10-10, 11-11, and 13-13 and at the end Zeeshan Zeb won the set 15-13. But at 13-all, this was Zeeshan Zeb who showed his excellent form and twice hit a side-wall in as many rallies by taking two vital points and the set to make the tally 2-1.—APP
