BEIJING
\nPakistan secured another medal at the Asian Games on Friday after Noor Zaman and Mohammad Ashab Irfan won their respective singles matches to reach the semi-finals of the squash competition. Third-seeded Noor defeated Hong Kong\u2019s Chi Hin Henry Leung, while fifth-seeded Ashab overcame India\u2019s Veer Chotrani at the Nagoya Kinjo Futo Arena to put Pakistan into the medal rounds of the event.
\nNoor, Pakistan\u2019s top-ranked player in the draw, was pushed by Leung but held his nerve to secure a place in the last four. Ashab also produced a strong performance against the fourth-seeded Indian, recovering from losing the opening game to win 3-1. Ashab prevailed 6-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-6 to avenge Pakistan\u2019s defeat to India in the men\u2019s team final at the previous Asian Games.
\nThe victories mean Pakistan are assured of at least a bronze medal in the men\u2019s singles competition, with the losing semi-finalists awarded bronze. The two Pakistanis had reached the quarter-finals without dropping a game, with Noor defeating Kuwait\u2019s Ammar Altamimi 11-4, 11-9, 11-4 and Ashab overcoming Saudi Arabia\u2019s Mohammad Al Alnafsan 11-9, 11-3, 11-5 in the last 16 on Thursday. Noor and Ashab will now contest their respective semi-finals on Saturday, with a place in Sunday\u2019s final at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BEIJING Pakistan secured another medal at the Asian Games on Friday after Noor Zaman and Mohammad Ashab Irfan won their respective singles matches to reach the semi-finals of the squash competition. Third-seeded Noor defeated Hong Kong\u2019s Chi Hin Henry Leung, while fifth-seeded Ashab overcame India\u2019s Veer Chotrani at the Nagoya Kinjo Futo Arena to put …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":103510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103516,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103490\/revisions\/103516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}