World amateur champion
The 16-year-old Pakistani whizz kid, Jehangir Khan, is the most exciting of the entries for the New Zealand open squash ’ tournament which starts at Henderson on Saturday. Jehangir won the last of the world amateur titles when he ; was still 15 and this week reached , the last eight in the world open at Adelaide. . " \ i 7 During the week he caused a major upset with a fourset victory over /he sixth
seed, Maqsood Ahmed, ■ but fell to Qamar Zaman (the second seed) in the quarter finals after a 62-min battle. The Sun Alliance-spon-sored Open, originally threatened by a boycott after the exclusion. of the South African, Roland Watson; •is now well and truly back on its feet. _■ Gamal Awad, of ’ Egypt, another, player who reached the - last eight at Adelaide, has also decided to compete. Awad-w£tn,sufit®sfiivfi
amateur titles in 1978 and 1979. Together with these players in the tournament now are the New Zealand professionals, Bruce Brownlee and Ross Norman, the Australians, Kevin Shawcross, Frank Donnelly, and Glen Brumby, and the Briton, Philip Kenyon. The women's draw of 16 is,’headed by the British players, Jayne Ashton and Aljßgn Cummings.
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