World Junior Champions Mohamad Zakaria and Amina Orfi have lifted the Karachi Open titles after claiming respective wins over Aly Abou Eleinen and Sivasangari Subramaniam at DA Creek Club.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
World No.11 Zakaria captured the biggest title of his career after outlasting Egyptian compatriot Eleinen in an epic 100-minute men’s final, eventually prevailing by a 9-11, 11-9, 12-14, 11-7, 11-7 scoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a brutal, high-quality contest, Zakaria showed incredible guts to twice come from behind, notably rallying from 6-2 down in the fourth to send the match to a deciding game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the clock ticked over the 90-minute mark, the momentum swung heavily in Zakaria’s direction as World No.14 Eleinen began to cramp. The 18-year-old took full advantage to build up a 6-1 lead on the scoreboard and hold on to win the seventh PSA Tour title of his burgeoning career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the match, Zakaria said: “I’m speechless. To win a Gold event at 18 years old, it’s surreal. The match was crazy. Aly played so well against me in the first three-and-a-half games, but then I noticed a physical drop-off or something hurting him. I hope it’s nothing big. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It was a big confidence boost today to win in five. I started the fifth game and didn’t feel too tired – I felt fresh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I just feel happy that all the hard work I’ve been putting in behind the curtains is paying off.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
World No.3 Orfi, meanwhile, powered through to her fourth title of the 2025\/26 PSA Squash Tour season after defeating No.2 seed Sivasangari in straight games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The four-time World Junior Champion delivered a near-faultless performance on the all-glass court at DA Creek Club to claim the Gold-level title by an 11-8, 11-2, 11-7 scoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The relentless intensity of Orfi’s hitting down both wings proved decisive in the outcome of the match, with the 18-year-old Egyptian’s dominance displayed in a second game in which she won 11 straight points from 2-0 down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From there, Orfi didn’t allow Sivasangari a glimpse of a comeback, leading from start to finish in the third game and wrapping up the win after 38 minutes of play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the match, Orfi said: “I’m so happy to get through the match in three games today. The past few days, I wasn’t really playing my best, but today I think I played my best. I played the squash I’ve been training for during the short off-season break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I know that I have won Gold titles this year, and winning another one to start the New Year. It will give me a push going into busy months in January and February with two Platinum events in America. Hopefully, I can win those as well.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week’s performances will also see Zakaria move into the top ten in the PSA World Rankings next Monday, with the 18-year-old becoming the third-youngest male player to achieve this feat in history, only behind legendary duo Jahangir and Jansher Khan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
FINAL RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Men’s: <\/strong>[5] Mohamad Zakaria (EGY) bt [6] Aly Abou Eleinen (EGY) 3-2: 9-11, 11-9, 12-14, 11-7, 11-7 (100m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women’s: <\/strong>[1] Amina Orfi (EGY) bt [2] Sivasangari Subramaniam (MAS) 3-0: 11-8, 11-2, 11-7 (38m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World Junior Champions Mohamad Zakaria and Amina Orfi have lifted the Karachi Open titles after claiming respective wins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-squash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed.jpg",2048,1455,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed-300x213.jpg",300,213,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed-768x546.jpg",640,455,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed-1024x728.jpg",640,455,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed-1536x1091.jpg",1536,1091,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed.jpg",2048,1455,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trophy-Orfi-Zakaria_compressed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7844,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions\/7844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}