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26-Jun, FINALS:
G13: [1] Aifa Azman (Mas) 3-0
[5] Lau Tin Yan (Hkg)
11-7, 11-5, 11-8 (22m)
G15: [2] Lui Hiu Lam (Hkg) 3-0 [1] Nur Aliah Izzati (Mas)
11-6, 11-6, 11-9
G17: [3] Andrea Lee (Mas) 3-2 [6] Zoe Yuk Han Foo (Mas)
11-8, 14-12, 9-11, 2-11, 11-5 (62m)
G19: [2] Vanessa Raj (Mas) 3-0 [1] Ho Tze Lok (Hkg)
11-2, 11-6, 11-5 (34m)
B13: [1] Veer Chotrani (Ind) 3-1 [2] Yash Fadte (Ind)
9-11, 12-10, 11-8, 11-9 (51m)
B15: [5] Ibrahim Abulaban (Jor) 3-0 [3] Eugene Heng (Mas)
13-11, 11-7, 12-10 (40m)
B17: [1] Eain Yow Ng (Mas) 3-0 [2] Mohammad Alsaraj (Jor)
11-5, 11-4, 11-2 (31m)
B19: [2] Tayyab Aslam (Pak) 3-2 [1] Kush Kumar (Ind)
11-8, 7-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9 (89m)
Four for Malaysia
Andrew Cross reports
The final day of the 21st Asian Junior Championships Kish
Island, Iran came to an end today with Malaysia walking away
with four titles, India, Pakistan, Hong Kong and Jordan
sharing the rest.
 Malaysia
won the first title of the day when Ng Eain Yow successfully
defended his under 17 title defeating Mohammed Al Saraj in
three games. On the court next to this two young Indian
players were battling it out for their first Asian title but
it was Top seed Veer Chotrani that defeated second seed Yash
Fatde. Four tight games were very even but it was Veer that
just held on to win when it looked like Yash was going to
fight back after trailing heavily in the fourth to close the
gap to 10.9 but Veer survived the last point to win.
In the Under 15 age group Jordanian Ibrahim Abulaban capped
off a dream week for him when he defeated Malaysia’s Eugene
Heng. The first game was tight but Eugene made too many
errors and in the end that cost him the game. After winning
the first game all of the confidence was with the Jordanian
and he never looked back to claim his first title.
As with the last few years the Boys under 19 final has been
the highlight of the competition, has usually gone to five
games and been decided by the smallest of margins. Today was
no exception Kush Kumar and Tayyab Aslam played all the way
to an 11.9 in the fifth which the Pakistani player won.
 The
game saw some good squash but a lot of blocking and not
really much clearing off the ball. Kush looked to have
established a good advantage at 2.1 up in games and leading
6.4 but conceded a penalty stroke for blocking Aslam and
then never got another point in the fourth. The fifth
started at a fast pace and it was point for point all the
way but two tins at the end from Kush gave Aslam the title.
In the Girls events Andrea Lee and Zoe Foo two long-time
rivals did battle again in the under 17 final as ever it
went the full distance. Andrea was leading two games to love
but then Zoe fought back to win the next two games. It was
Andrea though that won her second title in two years.
Aifa Azman from Malaysia was next on to court where she beat
Lau Tin Yan from Hong Kong to win her first Asian Junior
Title.
Vanessa Raj finally won an Asian Junior title on her last
attempt where she defeated Tze Lok Ho in three games for
Malaysia to win their first under 19 title since 2009.
Malaysia were looking for a clean sweep of all the Girls
titles but Hong Kong’s Lau Hui Lam had other ideas when she
defeated top seed Nur Aliah also in three games.
A huge Thank you to Iran squash, Alee Reza and his team this
week for their help and organisation of an amazing event
here in Kish Island and we will be back to Iran for the
Asian Juniors next year.
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