Hong Kong schoolboy Chiu Ho-fai caused an upset when he reached the second round of the Buler Squash Challenge Cup - a professional tournament featuring players ranked among the world's
top 100.
And schoolgirl Annie Au Wing-chi gave an impressive display against eighth-seeded Louise Crome before going down to the world No 62 from New Zealand in her first-round match at the Hong Kong Squash Centre last week.
Ho-fai, who beat fellow-Hongkonger Roger Ngan in five games in the first round, faced Australian Glenn Keenan, ranked No 99 in the world, last Friday.
Annie, a student at Jockey Club Ti-I College, fought back to level the match 2-2 after losing the first two games, but Crome showed her experience to take the decider.
'I didn't expect to win because he [Ngan] is a senior player and I am a junior,' said Ho-fai, a Form Six student at King's College on Hong Kong Island. 'He has more experience so I wasn't overly confident ahead of the game. I played him in a training match recently and I lost but it was close and that gave me encouragement.'
The teenager's brother, Chiu Ho-ming, won a squash scholarship to the prestigious Yale University in the United States last year.