Hoor Fawad finishes at 8th in ITTF Asian Hopes Week & Challenge 2019

Pakistan table tennis players Hoor Fawad from Karachi, Sindh secure 8th position in ITTF Asian Hopes Week & Challenge 2019 at Bangkok, Thailand. 

Hoor Fawad was the only girl who represented Pakistan with her father Fawad ur Rehman in Asia Hope Training & Competition week which allowed top players to practice with one another.

Notably 14 national associations were represented. In addition to Thailand players and coaches from India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Syria attended.

The challenge was part of 'Asia Hopes Week 2019', a regional training camp for elite table tennis players, which culminated in the Hopes Challenge, determining the top six players, with three boys and three girls, qualified for the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)'s '2019 World Hopes Week'.

Kazakhstan’s Alan Kurmangaliyev emerged the boys’ singles winner beating India’s Oishik Ghosh in a full distance five games final; third position and thus qualification for the World Hopes Week and Challenge was secured by the host nation’s Pheempope Pheempope, he finished ahead of Singapore’s Nicholas Tan.

Meanwhile, India won the girls’ singles event, Sayani Panda beating Fathimath Dheema from the Maldives in the final. Next in line was Malaysia’s Gan Ai Lis, she overcame Iran’s Tara Souri to gain third position.