MEN:
Malaysia 2-1 Kuwait
 Azlan Iskandar 3-0 Abdullah Al-Mezayen   10/8, 9/2, 9/6 (43m)
 Mohd. Nafiizwan 0-3 Ali Al-Ramzi               2/9, 8/10, 4/9 (67m)
 Ong Beng Hee 3-0 Salim Fayeez                9/3, 9/0, 9/8 (41m)


WOMEN:
Malaysia 2-1 Hong Kong
  Nicol David 3-0 Rebecca Chiu        9/2, 9/5, 9/2
  Delia Arnold 1-3 Joey Chan            9/3, 9/4, 5/9, 9/2
  Sharon Wee 3-1 Elise Ng               9/5, 9/4, 6/9, 9/3

Hosts Kuwait created a huge upset in the semi-finals of the Asian Team Championship semi-finals, knocking out second seeds Pakistan in two thrilling rubbers. Salim Fayeez took a two-game lead over Yasir Butt, who fought back to two-all before falling short in the fifth, then Kuwait's rising star Abdullah Al-Mezayen recovered from two games down to Shahid Zaman to put Kuwait into the final.

Holders and favourites Malaysia beat India 2-0, while in the women's semis Malaysia also cruised into the final - where they will meet Hong Kong - to keep intact their hopes of claiming all four gold medals.

MEN:
Malaysia bt India 2-0
  Ong Beng Hee 3-0 Ritwik Bhattacharya      10/9, 10/8, 9/3 (41m)
  Azlan Iskandar 3-1 Saurav Ghosal             6/9, 9/5, 9/0, 9/4 (62m)

Kuwait 2-0 Pakistan
  Salim Fayeez 3-2 Yasir Butt                      9/7, 9/5, 3/9, 4/9, 9/7
  Abdullah Al-Mezayen 3-2 Shahid Zaman    6/9, 5/9, 9/3, 9/5, 9/2 (67m)
  

Hong Kong team

TEAM RESULTS:

Complete Team Results

Day One

SINGLES FINALS:

[1] Azlan Iskandar (MAS) beat [2] Ong Beng Hee (MAS)
       5-9, 8-10, 9-5, 9-0, 9-7 (120m)

[1] Nicol David (MAS) beat [2] Rebecca Chiu (HKG)
       9-5, 9-2, 9-2 (34m)

Azlan and Nicol bag Asian Championships titles
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... affair when Mohd Azlan Iskandar and Nicol David won the men's and women's title respectively at the Asian Squash Championships in Kuwait yesterday. ...
  

 
Draws
 
Men  Women

Malaysia Celebrate Asian Squash Double

Top seeds Azlan Iskandar and Nicol David celebrated the fifth successive Malaysian double in the Asian Squash Championships - but did so in contrasting styles in the 14th staging of the biennial event in Kuwait.

In the men's final, Iskandar was made to battle for exactly two hours by compatriot Ong Beng Hee - the defending champion, ranked two places lower in the world - before winning 5-9, 8-10, 9-5, 9-0, 9-7 to secure the title for the first time.

The match was a repeat of the 2006 final in Chinese Taipei, in which Beng Hee won the regional title for a fourth successive time.

But, arguably, the standout performance in the men's event was made by 20-year-old Abdullah Almezayen - a 9/16 seed who upset Pakistan's 5/8 seed Yasir Butt 9-3, 10-9, 4-9, 5-9, 10-8 in 98 minutes in the last sixteen before overcoming India's 3/4 seed Saurav Ghosal in a 72-minute quarter-final to become the first Kuwaiti to reach the semi-finals this decade.

The women's event saw Malaysia's Nicol David confirm her status as the undisputed Queen of Asian Squash when she beat long-time Hong Kong rival Rebecca Chiu 9-5, 9-2, 9-2 in 34 minutes in the final.

David, voted the 'Asian Sportswoman of the Year' in December, has now won the prestigious title for a remarkable six times in a row - since first claiming the crown in 1998 as a 14-year-old!

The triumph also marks the fourth Asian Championship final in which David has beaten Chiu - and brings the total of her regional singles titles (including the Asian Games and Asian Junior Championships) to ten!
 

17/32* Abdulrahman Salem Al Malki (QAT) beat Sou Ka Hou (MAC)  9-0 9-0 9-0 (11m)
17/32* Yuta Fukui (JPN) beat Lee Se-Hyun (KOR)  9-5 10-8 9-0 (36m)
9/16* Mohd. Asyraf (MAS) beat Salem F Mohammed (KUW)  7-9 9-5 9-7 9-6 (80m) 
9/16* Majid Khan (PAK) beat Lee Seung-Taek (KOR)  9-2 9-4 9-1 (18m) 
17/32* Navin Samarasinghe (SRI) beat Chang Chun Yu (TPE)  9-0 9-0 9-1 (12m) 
17/32* Ammar A Al-Tamimi (KUW) beat Huang Chun Nan (TPE)  9-0 9-1 9-1 (21m) 
5/8* Dick Lau (HKG) beat Ken Okada (JPN)  9-3 9-7 9-5 (40m) 
5/8* Ritwik Bhattacharya (IND) beat Shallan Ahmed (KUW)  9-7 9-3 9-1 (19m) 
Mohd Y. Hajeyah (KUW) beat 17/32* Eranga Amunagama (SRI)  9-4 9-3 9-0 (30m) 
17/32* Seyed Alireza Sanaei (IRI) beat Lau Chi Hang (MAC)  9-0 9-1 9-0 (23m)
9/16* Bilal Zaman (PAK) beat Chuang Kai Han (TPE)  9-1 9-2 9-1 (15m) 
9/16* Mohd Oltuarir (KUW) beat Cai Ping Hua (CIN)  9-5 9-4 9-0 (26m) 
Mohd Hossein Jafari Nadoushan (IRI) beat 17/32* Lee Nyeon-Ho (KOR)  9-6 9-4 9-4 (42m) 
17/32* Anson Kwong (HKG) beat Falah F. Mohammed (KUW)  9-1 10-8 9-0 (32m) 
3/4* Shahid Zaman (PAK) beat Omar Abdullatif (KUW)  Walkover
3/4* Saurav Ghosal (IND) beat Nasser Al Rashed (KUW)  9-3 9-1 9-2 (20m) 
17/32* Ali B. Al-Ramezi (KUW) beat Ahmad Mohd Al Tamimi (QAT)  9-2 9-0 9-0 (25m) 
17/32* Kim Hyun-Dong (KOR) beat Gihan Suwaris (SRI)  9-0 9-0 9-2 (10m) 
9/16* Max Lee (HKG) beat Seyed Mohd Hossein Sanaee (IRI)  9-1 9-0 9-1 (20m) 
9/16* Abdullah Kh. Al-Mezayen (KUW) beat Shi Jun (CIN)  9-0 9-0 9-0 (13m) 
17/32* Takanori Shimizu (JPN) beat Khalid Ebrahim Al Handawi (QAT)  9-1 9-0 9-0 (19m) 
17/32* Jun Matsumoto (JPN) beat Thamer Abu Doukha (PAL)  9-3 9-2 9-0 (19m) 
5/8* Yasir Butt (PAK) beat Ahmad Al- Ramdi (KUW)  Walkover
5/8* Mohd. Nafiizwan (MAS) beat Hisham Saber (KUW)  Walkover
17/32* Nasser B Al-Ramezi (KUW) beat Meng Xiao Min (CIN)  9-2 9-0 9-0 (15m) 
17/32* Huang Cheng Yao (TPE) beat Chan Chak In (MAC)  9-0 9-0 9-1 (15m)
9/16* Siddharth Suchde (IND) beat Mahd Reza Sadeghpour (IRI)  9-6 9-5 9-1 (44m)
9/16* Wong Wai Hang (HKG) beat Mohammed Masoud Al Marri (QAT)  9-4 9-0 9-2 (40m)
17/32* Naresh Kumar (IND) beat Anura Hewage (SRI)  9-0 9-3 9-5 (14m)
17/32* Armando Amante (MAC) beat Jiang Jian (CIN)  6-9 9-5 9-0 9-4 (32m)  
2* Ong Beng Hee (MAS) beat Ren Zengli  9-3 9-1 9-2 (15m) 

Men's Singles - Round 2 

1* Azlan Iskandar (MAS) beat 17/32* Abdulrahman Salem Al Malki (QAT)  9-0 9-0 9-0
17/32* Yuta Fukui (JPN) beat 9/16* Mohd. Asyraf (MAS)  9-7 2-9 5-9 9-3 9-7 (64m) 
9/16* Majid Khan (PAK) beat 17/32* Navin Samarasinghe (SRI)  9-2 9-4 9-6 (24m) 
5/8* Dick Lau (HKG) beat 17/32* Ammar A Al-Tamimi (KUW)  9-2 9-2 2-9 9-2 (32m)
Mohd Y. Hajeyah (KUW) beat 5/8* Ritwik Bhattacharya (IND)  9-4 3-9 9-5 6-9 10-8 (93m)
9/16* Bilal Zaman (PAK) beat 17/32* Seyed Alireza Sanaei (IRI)  9-5 9-3 9-4 (19m) 
Mohd Hossein Jafari Nadoushan (IRI) beat 9/16* Mohd Oltuarir (KUW)  6-9 10-9 3-9 9-1 9-1
3/4* Shahid Zaman (PAK) beat 17/32* Anson Kwong (HKG)  9-3 9-1 9-3 (25m)
3/4* Saurav Ghosal (IND) beat 17/32* Ali B. Al-Ramezi (KUW)  9-2 9-2 9-2 (35m) 
9/16* Max Lee (HKG) beat 17/32* Kim Hyun-Dong (KOR)  10-8 9-2 9-5
9/16* Abdullah Kh. Al-Mezayen (KUW) beat 17/32* Takanori Shimizu (JPN)  9-2 9-4 9-1 (45m)
5/8* Yasir Butt (PAK) beat 17/32* Jun Matsumoto (JPN)  9-1 9-5 9-3 (25m) 
5/8* Mohd. Nafiizwan (MAS) beat 17/32* Nasser B Al-Ramezi (KUW)  0-9 9-4 9-6 9-2
9/16* Siddharth Suchde (IND) beat 17/32* Huang Cheng Yao (TPE)  9-1 9-3 9-2 (30m) 
9/16* Wong Wai Hang (HKG) beat 17/32* Naresh Kumar (IND)  9-1 9-4 9-1 (34m)
2* Ong Beg Hee (MAS) beat 17/32* Armando Amante (MAC)  9-2 9-2 9-2

Women Singles - Round 1 

1* Nicol David (MAS)  bye
9/16* Kim Jin-Hee (KOR) beat Xu Li (CIN)  9-2 9-0 9-0 (12m) 
9/16* Low Wee Wern (MAS) beat Li Chun Ping (TPE)  9-0 9-1 9-0 (9m) 
5/8* Chinatsu Matsui (JPN) beat Harita Om Prakash (IND)  9-4 9-0 9-3 (32m) 
5/8* Elise Ng (HKG) beat Jiang Li (CIN)  9-1 9-4 9-1 (19m) 
9/16* Misaki Kobayashi (JPN) beat Maria Estela Gageiro Madeira (MAC)  9-0 9-0 9-0 (10m) 
9/16* Song Sun-Mi (KOR) beat Pan Kuei Yeh (TPE)  10-8 9-0 9-0 (13m) 
3/4* Christina Mak (HKG) beat Surbhi Misra (IND)  9-0 9-6 9-7 (21m)
3/4* Sharon Wee (MAS) beat Xiu Chen (CIN)  9-1 9-1 9-1 (12m)  
9/16* Anwesha Reddy (IND) beat Hsieh Ssu Han (TPE)  9-1 9-0 9-1 (10m) 
9/16* Maria Toor (PAK) beat Sam Hei Tong (MAC)  9-0 9-0 9-2 (10m) 
5/8* Joshna Chinappa (IND) beat Wu Zhen Zhen (CIN)  9-0 9-4 9-1 (17m) 
5/8* Delia Arnold (MAS) beat Hung Ning Yu (TPE)  9-3 9-1 9-0 (20m) 
9/16* Park Eun-Ok (KOR) beat Kozue Onizawa (JPN)  9-5 9-0 9-2 (29m) 
9/16* Ahn Eun-Ok (KOR) beat Chan Si Man (MAC)  9-0 9-0 9-0 (8m)
2* Rebecca Chiu (HKG) beat Yuki Omiya (JPN)  9-2 9-1 9-0 (23m) 

   

2006 Event