Overview

• Fifth seed Noor Zaman swept seventh seed Matias Knudsen 11-3, 12-10, 11-3 in 28 minutes to book a place in the Nash Cup final.
• Eighth seed Ashab Irfan lost his semifinal 3-1 to second seed Moustafa Elsirty, who won 11-5, 11-3, 5-11, 11-2 in 44 minutes.
• Irfan had reached the last four with a comeback from two games down to defeat India’s Veer Chotrani 9-11, 4-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-8.
• Zaman advanced to the semifinals by beating Colombia’s Ronald Palomino 11-4, 10-12, 11-7, 11-7 in 52 minutes.
• Both Pakistanis are 21, and national coach Farhan Zaman has called them the future of the country’s squash program.