Fahad reaches table tennis next round of 32 by winning 3 matches in a row.

PESHAWAR -- Hailing from a remote village of Chitral district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan's top ping pong player Fahad Khawaja has qualified for the round of 32 of men's single table tennis competition by winning three consecutive matches in the Commonwealth Games-2022 (CWG) in Birmingham, the United Kingdom.

Talking to reporter on phone, the jubilant Fahad Khawaja said he was proud to represent his motherland in the table tennis singles of the ongoing CWG.

In the final group match, Fahad Khawaja defeated Darren Douglas of Trinidad and Tobago. He won all three matches of Group No. 15 and qualified for the round of 32.

In the first match of Group 15, Fahad Khawaja defeated Guyana's Christopher Franklin 4-0, while in the second match, he beat Bangladesh's Mohtasin Ahmed 4-1.

His next very important match is against England's world no. 74 Paul Drinkhall in round of 32 of men's single table tennis, to be played at 4:45 pm PKT on Friday.

It merits mention that Fahad's younger brother Ummam Khawjah, 17, who is currently ranked 2nd in Pakistan, missed the CWG for not being granted airfare by the quarters concerned. But Ummam has his name in the Pakistan team list for the Games and even the games management issued...