Men’s and women’s singles winners posing with SAS president Zambari Baijuri (third left), secretary Andrew Tsen (second left), Sharifah Aminah (left), coaches and referees.
SAMARAHAN: Favourites Ivan Yuen Chee Wern and Pushppa Devi of Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM) lived up to their top billing to clinch the men’s and women’s singles titles in the Malaysian Universities Sports Council (Masum) Games at Unimas squash centre last Saturday.
On the first day of the men’s competition, George Lawai was the only Unimas representative to move into the second round (last 16) after blanking Sim Hong Ping of UUM 3-0.
But he found the going too hot when he met Ivan Yuen in the last eight to tamely 0-3.
Yuen advanced to final after beating Muhd Mukhlasin of UiTM 3-1 in the semi-final.
Raja Mohd Adam of UIAM finished in third place after a tense battle with a depleted Mukhlasin who had a close 3-1 win over Yovineshan Ramathas of UM in the quarter-final.
Pushppa also received a first round bye before she blanked Nurwajihah of UPM 3-0 and beat Jamie Kua of UM 3-1 in the semi- final.
She went on to beat second seed Ilya Kareena of UiTM 3-1 in the final.
Third and fourth were Jamie Kua and Julie Cheah respectively.
Apart from hosting the squash competition, Unimas was also the competition venue for badminton, table tennis and tennis.
T he squash event was participated by 36 players from 11 Malaysian public universities namely UM, USM, UKM, UPM, UTM, UUM, UiTM, UIAM, UMT, UniSZA and host UNIMAS.
The tournament was organised with assistance from the newly Sports Commissioner Office-approved Persatuan Skuasy Bahagian Samarahan or Squash Association of Samarahan (SAS) which had their training programme for in-house students and those from nearby primary and secondary schools.
Meanwhile, SAS will be holding a squash carnival on Sunday (May 24) from 10am to 4pm to register a new intake for their junior development programme.
Participants will receive free t-shirts and other goodies beside learning about the game.
For more information, email to [email protected] or call SAS at 013-8182020.