SAR duo win bronze

Hong Kong's Joey Chan Ho-ling and Chiu Ka-kei both won bronze medals at the 11th Asian Junior Squash Championships held in Pakistan earlier this month.

Third seed Ho-ling, 14, beat Shruti Reddy of India 9-2, 9-0, 9-0 in the second round and Delia Arnold of Malaysia 9-1, 9-3, 9-5 in the quarter-finals, which secured the bronze. Ho-ling lost to top-seeded Indian Joshna Chinappa in the semi-finals, 1-9, 1-9, 9-7, 3-9.

Unseeded Ka-kei, also 14, defeated Goh Mui Yen of Singapore 9-0, 9-0, 9-2 in the first round, and fifth seed Tan Pei-oi of Singapore 9-3, 9-3, 9-1 in the second round.

The Belilios Public School student then beat last year's Hong Kong Junior Open winner, Malaysia's Lim Yoke Wah, 6-9, 10-8, 9-5, 9-0 in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, India's number two seed, Vaidehi Reddy, was too strong for Ka-kei who went down 4-9, 4-9, 10-9, 3-9.

In the boys' event, Hong Kong's Patrick Choi Tung-yin and Vincent Yu Hok-yan bowed out in the third round.

There was another reason to celebrate when Asian Games gold medallist Rebecca Chiu Wing-yin was named 'The Outstanding Woman Player of 2002' by the Asian Squash Federation.