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Men's Results
Women's Results
Clean Sweep For Malaysia In
Asian Team Championships
Malaysia celebrated a clean sweep
in the Asian Squash Championships for the second successive time
after winning both the Men's and Women's Team titles to add to the
individual trophies won earlier in the week in Kuwait.
Hosts
Kuwait, celebrating their maiden appearance in an Asian team final,
put up a brave performance against favourites Malaysia. Mohd
Azlan Iskandar, winner of the individual gold medal for the first time,
beat Kuwait's Abdullah Almezayen 10-8, 9-2, 9-6 to put the top seeds
ahead.
But, to
the delight of local fans, Ali Alramezi pounced back to beat third
string Malaysian Mohd Nafiizwan Adnan 9-2, 10-8, 9-4 in 67 minutes to
tie the tie.
However, Ong Beng Hee - the Malaysian number two who was denied a
fifth successive individual gold medal by team-mate Iskandar - beat Kuwait
hero Salem F Mohammed 9-3, 9-0, 9-8 in 41 minutes to give Malaysia
the men's gold medal for the third time since 2000.
In the
play-off for third place, Pakistan - denied a place in the final by
Kuwait for the first in the event's history - salvaged some pride by beating
India 2/1.
Malaysia beat Hong Kong in
the women's final for the third time - but for the first time were taken the
full distance. Six-time individual champion Nicol David beat Hong
Kong rival Rebecca Chiu 9-1, 9-5, 9-0 in the opening runner to put
Malaysian ahead. But Joey Chan forced a decider when she defeated
Malaysia's Delia Arnold 9-3, 9-3, 5-9, 9-2 in a tense third string
encounter.
But
experienced Sharon Wee saved the day with a 9-6, 9-2, 6-9, 9-1 defeat
of Hong Kong's Elise Ng to give the title to Malaysia for the fourth
time in a row.
Japan claimed the bronze medal
for the third time by beating South Korea 2/0 in the third place
play-off.
Hosts Kuwait Conquer Pakistan In Historic Asian Upset
In the most remarkable
upset in the 27-year history of the event, hosts Kuwait the beat
former champions Pakistan in the semi-finals of the Asian Squash
Team Championships to deny the region's long-time rulers of men's squash
a place in the final for the first time.
Pakistan won the inaugural championship in 1981 - and continued to rule
unopposed in Asia until losing to Malaysia in the 2000 final.
But determined efforts by unsung Kuwaiti heroes Salem F Mohammed and
Abdullah Almezayen consigned Pakistan to semi-final losers in the 14th
staging of the event. Mohammed, aged 20 and the world No 253 in June 2006,
despatched Pakistan's world No 69 Yasir Butt 9-7, 9-5, 3-9, 4-9, 9-7
in 78 minutes.
Abdullah Almezayen, also a 20-year-old - who reached the semi-finals of the
individual event as a 9/16 seed - then battled back from two games down to
overcome Pakistan No1 Shahid Zaman 6-9, 5-9, 9-3, 9-5, 9-2 in 67
minutes to clinch the hosts' sensational victory.
First-time finalists Kuwait will now meet Malaysia in the final after
the defending champions beat India 2/0 in the other semi-final.
In the women's event, title-holders Malaysia beat Japan 2/0
and will meet Hong Kong in the final for the third successive time.
Men's final:
MALAYSIA bt KUWAIT 2-1
Mohd
Azlan Iskandar bt Abdullah Almezayen 10-8, 9-2, 9-6 (43m)
Mohd
Nafiizwan Adnan lost to Ali Alramezi 2-9, 8-10, 4-9 (67m)
Ong
Beng Hee bt Salem F Mohammed 9-3, 9-0, 9-8 (41m)
3rd place play-off:
PAKISTAN bt INDIA 2-1
Yasir
Butt lost to Saurav Ghosal 8-10, 9-4, 5-9, 1-9 (52m)
Bilal
Zaman bt Siddharth Suchde 9-2, 7-9, 9-10, 9-5, 9-1 (79m)
Majid
Khan bt Ritwik Bhattacharya 9-4, 1-9, 5-9, 9-3, 9-1 (92m)
5th place play-off:
HONG
KONG bt JAPAN 2-0
Dick
Lau bt Jun Matsumoto 9-5, 9-0, 9-2 (35m)
Anson
Kwong bt Yuta Fukui 9-3, 9-3, 9-2 (36m)
7th place play-off:
SOUTH KOREA bt SRI LANKA 2-1
Lee
Nyeon-Ho lost to Navin Samarasinghe 5-9, 9-4, 4-9, 5-9 (48m)
Se
Hyun Lee bt Eranga Amunagama 9-3, 9-6, 9-2 (12m)
Kim
Hyun-Dong bt Anura Hewage w/o
9th place play-off:
QATAR bt CHINA 3-0
Mohammed Al Marri bt Meng Xiaomin 9-10, 9-3, 9-5, 9-2 (60m)
Abdul
Rahman Al-Malki bt Pinghua Cai 9-1, 9-0, 9-0 (12m)
Ahmad
Mohd Al Tamimi bt Ren Zengli 9-2, 6-9, 9-4, 9-0 (30m)
11th place play-off:
IRAN
bt CHINESE TAIPEI 2-1
Mohammad Hossei Jafari Nadoushan bt Chang Chun-Yu 9-2, 9-0, 9-0 (16m)
Alireza Sanaei lost to Cheng Yao Huang 4-9, 3-9, 3-9 (37m)
Seyed
Mohammad Hossein Sanaee bt Chuang Kai-Han 9-0, 9-0, 9-1 (14m)
13th place: MACAU
Men's semi-finals:
MALAYSIA bt INDIA 2-0
Ong Beng Hee bt Ritwik Bhattacharya 10-9,
10-8, 9-3 (41m)
Mohd Azlan Iskandar bt Saurav Ghosal 6-9,
9-5, 9-0, 9-4 (62m)
KUWAIT bt PAKISTAN 2-0
Salem F Mohammed bt Yasir Butt 9-7, 9-5,
3-9, 4-9, 9-7 (78m)
Abdullah Almezayen bt Shahid Zaman 6-9, 5-9,
9-3, 9-5, 9-2 (67m)
5th - 8th place play-offs:
JAPAN bt SOUTH KOREA 2-1
Takanori Shimizu lost to Kim Hyun-Dong 6-9,
1-9, 8-10 (64m)
Jun Matsumoto bt Lee Nyeon-Ho 10-8, 9-7, 9-5
(24m)
Yuta Fukui bt Lee Seung Taek 9-1, 9-4, 9-1
(30m)
HONG KONG bt SRI LANKA 2-0
Wai Hang Wong bt Eranga Amunagama 9-5, 9-0,
9-1 (25m)
Dick Lau bt Navin Samarasinghe 9-2, 9-4, 9-2
(33m)
Women's final:
MALAYSIA bt HONG KONG 2-1
Nicol
David bt Rebecca Chiu 9-1, 9-5, 9-0 (21m)
Delia
Arnold lost to Joey Chan 3-9, 3-9, 9-5, 2-9 (48m)
Sharon Wee bt Elise Ng 9-6, 9-2, 6-9, 9-1 (37m)
3rd place play-off:
JAPAN bt SOUTH KOREA 2-0
Chinatsu Matsui bt Park Eun Ok 9-4, 9-6, 9-2 (51m)
Misaki Kobayashi bt Song Sun-Mi 9-2, 9-4, 9-3 (27m)
5th place play-off:
INDIA bt CHINA 2-0
Joshna Chinappa bt Wu Zhenzhen 9-6, 9-0, 9-1 (19m)
Surbhi Misra bt Xiu Chen 9-0, 9-2, 9-0 (15m)
7th place play-off:
CHINESE TAIPEI bt MACAU 2-0
Hung
Ning Yu bt Si Man Wendy Chan 6-9, 9-4, 9-6, 9-0 (36m)
Hsieh
Ssu Han bt Sam Hei Tong 9-0, 9-2, 9-3 (21m)
Women's Semi-finals:
MALAYSIA bt JAPAN 2-0
Sharon Wee bt Kozue Onizawa 9-6, 9-5, 9-2
(27m)
Nicol David bt Chinatsu Matsui 9-2, 9-5, 9-3
(27m)
HONG KONG bt SOUTH KOREA 2-0
Elise Ng bt Ahn Eun Chan 9-7, 9-3, 9-5 (45m)
Rebecca Chiu bt Park Eun Ok 9-1, 9-3, 9-3
(26m)
5th - 8th place play-offs:
CHINA bt MACAU 2-0
Jiang Li bt Maria Estela Gageiro Madeira
9-0, 9-0, 9-0 (14m)
Wu Zhenzhen bt Si Man Wendy Chan 9-2, 9-3,
9-0 (15m)
INDIA bt CHINESE TAIPEI 2-0
Surbhi Misra bt Li Chun Ping 9-1, 9-0, 9-0
(10m)
Anwesha Reddy bt Hung Ning Yu 9-0, 9-0, 9-1
(18m)
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