{"id":29294,"date":"2025-11-28T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29294"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:14:30","slug":"noor-zaman-wins-chief-of-the-air-staff-squash-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29294","title":{"rendered":"Noor Zaman wins Chief of the Air Staff Squash Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Noor Zaman of Pakistan captured the Chief of the Air Staff International Squash Championship title after a thrilling five-game final at the Mus\u2019haf Squash Complex in Islamabad. The championship carried a total prize fund of USD 37,000.<\/p>\n<p>In the closely contested final, 10th seed Hamza Khan started strong, taking the first game 11-9 and the second 11-7. However, world U23 champion and second seed Noor Zaman, ranked 42nd globally, mounted a comeback, winning the next three games 11-7, 11-4, and 11-8 to clinch the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Noor Zaman, the grandson of former world champion Qamar Zaman, demonstrated composure and skill under pressure to overturn an early deficit and lift the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Hamza Khan had produced two major upsets en route to the final, defeating top-seeded Egyptian Kareem El Hammamy in the quarterfinals and overcoming sixth-seed David Burnett of Sweden in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The championship highlighted the depth of emerging Pakistani squash talent and reaffirmed the country\u2019s presence on the international squash stage.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noor Zaman of Pakistan captured the Chief of the Air Staff International Squash Championship title after a thrilling five-game final at the Mus\u2019haf Squash Complex in Islamabad. The championship carried a total prize fund of USD 37,000. In the closely contested final, 10th seed Hamza Khan started strong, taking the first game 11-9 and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}