Four out of five Pakistani finalists emerged victorious at the Australian Junior Open Squash Championship, with each winner claiming their title without losing a single game, all posting identical 3-0 wins.
Among the standout performers were Mehwish Ali and Sehrish Ali, two of the three squash-playing sisters from Peshawar, often referred to as the Ali sisters.
Top seed Mehwish won the girls’ under-17 title, defeating New South Wales’ Reden Alma Paulava.
In the girls’ under-13 category, top-seeded Sehrish overcame Queensland’s Ryo Kua Bata in straight games.
In the boys’ under-17 final, Rawalpindi’s Azaan Ali Khan, seeded second, beat New South Wales’ Henry Cross, while Ahmed Ali Naaz, also seeded second, clinched the boys’ under-12 title with a win over the United States’ Flee.
Sehrish Ali, who competed in two events, was the only Pakistani to miss out on gold. She earned silver in the girls’ under-15 final after a tight five-game battle against Japan’s M. Emily Senior, eventually losing 3-2.
This marks just the third time in squash history that three biological sisters qualified for finals in an international platinum-category event.