{"id":25607,"date":"2025-07-03T07:33:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=25607"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:33:36","slug":"asian-junior-squash-five-pakistani-players-reach-to-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=25607","title":{"rendered":"Asian junior squash: Five Pakistani players reach to semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani players continued their impressive run at the 32nd Asian Junior Squash Championship, securing multiple victories in the quarterfinals, with five qualifying for the semi-finals. In the Boys U19 category, Abdullah Nawaz dominated Wong Wing Kuen of Hong Kong with a straight-games victory 11-4, 11-4, 11-6 to advance to the semifinals. The Boys U15 event saw two Pakistani players progress. Nauman Khan, the top seed in this age group category, defeated India\u2019s Harshal Rana in a commanding performance with scores of 11-6, 11-5, 11-7, while Ahmed Rayan Khalil outclassed Malaysia\u2019s Armann Merzha bin Ashraff 11-7, 11-3, 11-3. Pakistan\u2019s Sohail Adnan, the top seed in Boys U13, cruised past India\u2019s Abhyuday Arora 11-2, 11-8, 11-2 to book his place in the semifinals. In the Girls U13 category, Mahnoor Ali secured a convincing win over India\u2019s Anika Kalanki with scores of 11-6, 11-2, 11-3. However, Sehrish Ali bowed out in the Girls U15 quarterfinals after losing to Malaysia\u2019s Siti Syaurah A Sufian 4-11, 7-11, 2-11. With five players reaching the semifinals across different age groups, Pakistan remains a strong contender to win multiple medals in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistani players continued their impressive run at the 32nd Asian Junior Squash Championship, securing multiple victories in the quarterfinals, with five qualifying for the semi-finals&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25608,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}