Jansher beats Jahangir
NZPA-Reuter Madrid The wjorld champion, Jansher Khan, outshone Jahangir Khan in a two-hour marathon to win the Spanish Open squash final 5-9 9-6 9-6 9-0 on Sunday. Jansher,) who toppled fel-low-Pakistani Jahangir as the world’s top-ranked player after beating him seven times in a row- last year, reinforced his supremacy with a brilliant display of' retrieving to take the SNZIO.OOO first prize. Jahangir started well and led throughout a first game that was full of long rallies down the side walls.
After half an hour, the score had! reached only 4-4 and the ; game lasted 45 minutes, longer than the total time it took either player to win any of his earlier matches. I
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Press, 9 March 1988, Page 45
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