{"id":76055,"date":"2025-05-30T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=76055"},"modified":"2025-05-30T16:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:15:15","slug":"noor-zaman-first-ever-pakistani-to-qualify-for-main-draw-of-british-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/noor-zaman-first-ever-pakistani-to-qualify-for-main-draw-of-british-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Noor Zaman first ever Pakistani to qualify for main draw of British Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan squash Star <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/noor-zaman-makes-history-wins-under-23-world-squash-championship-for-pakistan\/\">Noor Zaman<\/a> stood first in the main draw of the British Open underway in Birmingham, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Zaman beat Egypt\u2019s Kareem El Torkey by 3-1, making him the first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/arshad-nadeem-qualifies-for-asian-athletics-championship-2025\/\">Pakistani<\/a> to achieve this milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, 44th-ranked Zaman defeated\u00a0the Egyptian 11-5, 11-8, 3-11, 11-7 in a 46-minute game at the Solihull Arden Club in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlhamdulillah, after a 20-year gap, I have qualified for the Main Round of the British Open. I am the first Pakistani to achieve this milestone,\u201d Zaman said in a post shared on\u00a0 X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Alhamdulillah, after a 20-year gap, I have qualified for the Main Round of the British Open. I am the first Pakistani to achieve this milestone.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BritishOpen2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BritishOpen2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/96ZBbYFIdp\">https:\/\/t.co\/96ZBbYFIdp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noor Zaman (@Noorzaman2004) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Noorzaman2004\/status\/1928189393379954964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Zaman found his range at the front and back of the court early in the fixture and looked focused as he took a commanding 2-0 lead,\u201d reads a press release\u00a0by the British Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Egyptian responded by taking the third game 11-3, firing the ball in short and capitalising on Zaman&#8217;s errors. In a competitive fourth, there was nothing to separate the two as the score reached 5-5, Zaman established a two-point lead to pull ahead and secured the game 11-7 to win in 46 minutes,\u201d the press release said.<\/p>\n<p>Zaman will face England\u2019s Curtis Malik on June 1, as the main draw is set to begin on May 31. The Diamond level event carries a prize draw of $348,500 each for the men&#8217;s and women\u2019s categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan squash Star Noor Zaman stood first in the main draw of the British Open underway in Birmingham, according to media reports. Zaman beat Egypt\u2019s Kareem El Torkey by 3-1, making him the first-ever Pakistani to achieve this milestone. Yesterday, 44th-ranked Zaman defeated\u00a0the Egyptian 11-5, 11-8, 3-11, 11-7 in a 46-minute game at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":76059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29147,29146],"class_list":["post-76055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-british-open","tag-noor-zaman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76058,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76055\/revisions\/76058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}