The five-day Combaxx Roshan Khan Nationwide Squash Crew Championship 2024 will start on Sunday (December 22, 2023) on the Pakistan Navy Roshan Khan Jahangir Khan Squash Complicated.
The match, scheduled from December 22 to 26, will function the nation’s prime female and male gamers representing their provincial and departmental groups.
Throughout a media briefing, the Organizing Committee Chairman and former world champion Jahangir Khan shared particulars of the occasion.
Current on the event have been Combaxx Sports activities Normal Supervisor Zubair Macha, Championship Director Shiraz Saleem, Occasion Coordinator Tariq Khanzada, Asif Azeem, and Event Referee Naveed Alam.
The championship is known as after Jahangir’s father, former British Open champion Roshan Khan.
The boys’s occasion will see 9 groups in motion, with SNGPL seeded as the highest staff and Pakistan WAPDA because the second seed. Groups from Pakistan Military, Pakistan Navy, Pakistan Air Pressure, Pakistan Railways, Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan may even take part.
Within the ladies’s staff occasion, Pakistan WAPDA has been awarded the highest seed, adopted by Sindh because the second seed, whereas Pakistan Military, Punjab, and Balochistan may even compete.
Jahangir Khan expressed optimism, saying, “This championship supplies a fantastic platform for rising expertise to showcase their abilities and expertise. With 14 squash occasions organized this yr, we’ve got made vital progress.
After years of effort, squash has been included within the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, and we should begin preparations now.”
The previous champion stated he’s sincerely hoping that the following yr will see much more squash match getting staged in Pakistan and hopefully the children will carry ahead the wealthy legacy of Pakistan squash on the worldwide degree.
“With arduous work and assist from the govt. and the sponsors, we will certainly regain our place in squash,” stated Jahangir. “However sure, I want to inform the children that tough work and health is the important thing to success and excellence in squash.
“In my enjoying days, myself and different prime gamers used to coach seven to eight hours a day which helped us attain nice heights. That form of dedication is lacking among the many gamers immediately,” he noticed.
He additionally praised Combaxx Sports activities CEO Umar Saeed for his all-out assist of squash, emphasising the vital function sponsors play within the growth of sports activities. He urged different non-public organizations to come back ahead to assist the sport and its gamers.