19th Asian Junior Squash Team C’ship:  16 – 20 Jan; Pak Team Arrives

THAILAND: Pakistan junior squash team reached Thailand for participation in 19th Asian Junior Squash Team Championship, being held at Pattaya (Thailand) between 16 – 20 January, 2019.
Asian Junior Squash Team
19th Asian Junior Squash Team Championship: Group photograph of participating players and management officials – Courtesy: PSF
The Pakistan team comprises of 04 players:
  • Abbas Zeb,
  • Haris Qasim,
  • Farhan Hashmi and

The coach of the team is Mr Fazal Shah.

13 teams from Asia have are  participating in the championship.  The participating teams have been divided into 04 pools, as follows:
Pool A
  • Pakistan team has been seeded No 1 and is placed in Pool A
  • Sri Lanka
  • Chinese Taipie
Pool B
  • Malaysia
  • Japan
  • China
Pool C
  • Hong Kong
  • Singapore
  • Kuwait
Pool D
  • India
  • Korea
  • Iraq
  • Thailand

Championships Format

According to ASF website, the Championships will be played in accordance with Regulation Q of the ASF Championship Regulations. Teamsare grouped into Pools according to respective seeding done by the ASF Seeding Committee.

The final order of merit in each pool is decided based on all the results in that pool as follows:

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– first by greater number of Ties won

– if two teams still equal, then by the result between the teams

– if three or more teams have won the same number of Ties, then by the greater number of matches won

– if two teams still equal, then by the result between the two teams

– if three or more teams still equal, then by greater positive difference between games won and lost

– if two teams still equal, then by the result between the two teams

– if three or more teams still equal, then by greater positive difference between points won and lost

– if two teams still equal, then by the result between the two teams

– finally, if more than two teams still equal, then by lottery.

All teams will be required to play-off to produce a final order, except that there will not be playoffs for 3/4 places.

Team Orders

All ties are management by the Championship Director which are as follows:

  • Ensured that all Ties commence at the advertised time. 
  • All team members must be present at the allocated court for the Tie and the first player must be ready to play at the scheduled start time for the Tie. 
  • If one player is not in attendance, all other players must move up the order and that (or those) match(es) will be forfeited. 
  • A minimum of two players must be in attendance in order for the tie to start. 
  • Players arriving after the scheduled start time for the Tie cannot be reinstated in a team. 
  • The Team Manager has the right to appeal to the ASF Technical Delegate in the event of force majeure.

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