10 Mar 2016
Doha, 10 March 2016. Aspire Academy had nine players competing in the 2016 “Qatar & Doha Junior Open” at the Qatar Squash Federation, two Asian Junior circuit events held back to back in Doha from March 6-9. These two events are a regular on the Asian junior calendar and this year brought players from, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, Hong Kong and Iraq.
Over the week the best result came from grade 8 student Waleed Zaman who, in his first year of the Under 15 age group, managed to reach the semi-finals of the Qatar Junior. Unfortunately for Waleed a knee injury prevented him from participating in the second event. Waleed’s older brother Umair also found some success in the Under 19 event at the Doha Junior reaching the semi-finals. This included a nail biting quarter final win where he beat the #3 seed from Hong Kong 3 games to 2.
Other significant performances came from Hamad Al-Amri, Rashid Al-Harib and Abdulaziz Al-Ishaq who all reached the quarter finals in their respective age groups throughout the week.
Aspire Academy players at the 2016 “Qatar & Doha Junior Open”:
| NAME |
CATEGORY |
QATAR JUNIOR |
DOHA JUNIOR |
| UMAIR ZAMAN |
U19 |
5th |
4th |
| HAMAD AL-AMRI |
U17 |
7th |
6th |
| MOHAMMED ALYAFEI |
U17 |
15th |
13th |
| WALEED ZAMAN |
U15 |
4th |
Did not play |
| RASHID AL-HARIB |
U15 |
6th |
5th |
| ABDULAZIZ AL-ISHAQ |
U15 |
5th |
9th |
| ALI Al-DOSARI |
U15 |
17th |
11th |
| AHMAD AL-MERAIKHI |
U15 |
18th |
12th |
| ABDULAZIZ AL-TURKI |
U15 |
19th |
25th |
| IBRAHIM AL-DARWISH |
U13 |
9th |
6th |