Top seed Asim overcomes Egypt\u2019s Kareem Badawi 11-3, 11-6, 5-11, 11-8 in 45 minutes
\nKARACHI
\nPakistan\u2019s top squash players Asim Khan and Ashab Irfan progressed to the quarterfinals of the Johns Creek Open 2025, a $12,000 PSA Challenger event, after recording victories in the second round on Thursday.
\nTop seed Asim overcame Egypt\u2019s Kareem Badawi 11-3, 11-6, 5-11, 11-8 in 45 minutes. Asim dominated the opening two games with precise length and controlled rallies before Badawi fought back to take the third. The Pakistani regrouped in the fourth to secure his place in the last eight.
\nSecond seed Ashab needed just 20 minutes to dismiss the United States\u2019 Christopher Gordon in straight games, 11-2, 11-4, 11-4. Ashab\u2019s aggressive shot-making and quick pace kept the American on the defensive throughout.
\nHowever, it was the end of the road for seventh seed Ahsan Ayaz, who was edged out in a five-game thriller against Egypt\u2019s Omar ElKattan. After taking the first game 11-4, Ahsan lost the second on a tiebreak 12-10 and the third 11-9.
\nHe levelled the match by winning the fourth 11-8, but ElKattan held firm in the decider to win 11-8 after 58 minutes of high-intensity play.
\nMuhammad Huzaifa Ibrahim also exited in the round of 16, losing to third seed Diego Gobbi of Brazil 9-11, 11-3, 11-4, 11-6 in 47 minutes.
\nHuzaifa started strongly by taking the opening game but could not match Gobbi\u2019s pace and consistency in the remaining games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Top seed Asim overcomes Egypt\u2019s Kareem Badawi 11-3, 11-6, 5-11, 11-8 in 45 minutes KARACHI Pakistan\u2019s top squash players Asim Khan and Ashab Irfan progressed to the quarterfinals of the Johns Creek Open 2025, a $12,000 PSA Challenger event, after recording victories in the second round on Thursday. Top seed Asim overcame Egypt\u2019s Kareem Badawi …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85453","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\/85453","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=85453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85455,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85453\/revisions\/85455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}