Iskandar, Ong Head Toward Clash
By SquashTalk Staff, Nov 17 2005
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[COMPLETE MALAYSIAN OPEN RESULTS '05]

In first round action in Bukit Jalal, Malaysia, Malaysian top men's players Ong Beng Hee and Azlan Iskandar had no difficulties with their first round opponents, Jason Mudge and Khasif Shuja respectively.

Ong Beng Hee, who has recently slumped to #17 in the world rankings, has been for the past five years the Malaysian men's squash poster boy, while Iskandar has recently surpassed Ong to reach a surprising world #14.

Malaysian fans are highly anticipating a potential semifinal clash between the two Malaysians, while Holland's Dylan Bennett and Canada's Graham Ryding lurk in the bottom half of the draw.

For this showdown to happen, Beng Hee has to get past India's Ritwik Bhattacharya in today's quarterfinal clash.

Malaysian Open PSA Squash
Results - 1st round:
Azlan Iskandar (Mas) bt Khasif Shuja (Pak) 11-7, 11-0, 11-2;
Mark Heather (Eng) bt Sherif Moustaffa Kamel (Egy) 3-11, 11-2, 11-8, 11-5;
Ong Beng Hee (Mas) bt Jason Mudge (Aus) 11-6, 11-7, 11-9;
Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind) bt Bader al Hussaini (Kuw) 11-4, 5-11, 11-2, 11-5;
Dylan Bennett (Ned) bt Nafizwan Adnan (Mas) 11-6, 11-8, 11-7;
Wael el Hindi (Egy) bt Nicholas Kyme (Ber) 11-7, 11-3, 11-9;
Jesse Engelbrecht (Zim) bt Timothy Manning (Aus) 10-11 (1-3), 11-2, 11-5, 11-6;
Graham Ryding (Can) bt Cameron White (Aus) 5-11, 11-2, 11-3, 11-8.

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