Doha: Players from seven countries including hosts Qatar will be vying for top honours at the Qatar Junior Open squash championship which will begin from today at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.
The tournament will be held on five categories namely: Under-19, Under-17, Under-15, Under-13 and Under-11.
Players from Malaysia, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Kuwait, Iran and Qatar are taking part in the five day championship.
The finals will be played on March 5. The Qatar Junior Open will be followed by the Doha Junior Open which will begin on March 6 and end on March 10.
“The two back-to-back tournaments will help some of the upcoming local players to test their abilities against some of the best players from the same age-group,” said Gamal Rasmi, Technical Secretary at Qatar Squash Federation (QSF). The tournament will be played on the knock out system.
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Qatar Junior Open Squash Championship
Boys Under-11
Yousef Ahmad Elsaka, Abdulaziz Saleh Daoud, Zeyad Tariq Al Zeyara, Humoud Salah Abu Hussain, Abdulaziz Talal Al Thani, Ibrahim Ahmed Darwish, Mohammed Tareq Alemadi, Hamad Ali Al Naimi, Thamer Ali Al Naimi, Youssef Essam Farag, Mohamed Tarek Ouda, Jassim Talal Al Thani, Saleh Umar Zaman, Abdulraouf Aboubakr Abdelzaher, Abdulrahman Ali Al Khalaf, Salem Yousef Al Malki, Yousef Abdulla Al Kubaisi, Mohammed Abdulla Al Kubaisi, Abdulla Ahmed Al Qahtani and Pouya Shafieifard
Boys Under-13
Vasudef Vasanthan, Hussein Ayad M Al Tameemi, Ahmad Tariq Alobaidli, Nayef Saleh Daoud, Jaafar Ferman Hasan, Bader M S KH Almoghrebi, Abbas Zeb, Hussein Ali Jihad Al Bawi, Eissa Soud Al Aqeedi, Naveed Rehman, Waleed Umar Zaman, Hamoud A H M Aljenaidel, Hayder Mohammed I Al Dulaimi, Ali Saeed Al Dosari, Jaber Saleh Daoud, Muhammad Bilal Islam, Abdulaziz Khaled Al Ishaq, Rashid Ali Al Harib, Yousef E M R Alnajjar, Tameem Abdulrahman Alaji, Ali Ahmed Al Qahtani, Abdulaziz A M H Jasem, and Mohammad Danial Gharooni
