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Essay On Squash In Pakistan

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Squash is the only “Single player’s Sports” in which Pakistan has made its presence recognized at the international level. Squash has made the country famous. For the better part of five decades, Pakistan has completely dominated squash like no other place in the world. Between 1950 and 1997, Pakistan managed to win more than 30 British Open titles, 14 World Open titles, and many PSA professional titles. During the supremacy of Jahangir Khan and Jansher Khan in the 80s and 90s, squash in Pakistan reached incredible heights of success, although they were hardly the first players to excel in the game.

Hashim Khan, a former squash coach in the British Army, was the first Pakistani to dominate the sport.When Pakistan gained independence, Hashim …show more content…

Since 1998, however, after Jansher’s defeat in the British Open final, the game of Squash in Pakistan has fallen from its dizzying heights. Although Pakistanis still make up a considerable percentage of players in both men’s and women’s games, but none of the Pakistani has qualified for the final of either the British or World opendespite of the fact that Pakistan has a number of coaching/training centers in major cities of the country. Pakistan has never won any athletic medal in Olympics. Her athletes do not get chance to participate in World Athletic Cup competition due to poor standard.

But Pakistan has been a force to be reckoned with in the Asian Games, the SAF Games and the Commonwealth Games. Many Pakistani athletes won medals and even held records for many years in these prestigious competitions. The fifties were the golden time of the Pakistani athletics when Pakistan produced a number of very good athletes, who ruled the Asian athletic scene for many years. Some of them created the Asian Games records. These records were broken after a lot of struggle by the other Asian athletes. The one time 'Fastest man of Asia' Abdul Khaliq was a

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