Grant Wins CNS International Title
Final:
[1] Adrian Grant (ENG) bt [3] Mansoor Zaman (PAK) 11-7, 6-11, 11-10 (3-1), 11-7 (56m)
England's Adrian Grant, the top seed, beat local hero Mansoor Zaman, the No3 seed from Pakistan, in the final of the CNS Squash International at the Roshan Khan/Jahangir Khan Complex in Karachi, Pakistan, to win the 12th PSA Tour title of his career.
It was a battle between two left-handers, in which Londoner Grant took the early initiative before Zaman levelled the match after the second game. It took a tie-break to resolve the third – but the Englishman, the 25-year-old world No17 now based in Yorkshire, extended his advantage in the fourth to claim an 11-7, 6-11, 11-10 (2-0), 11-7 victory after 56 minutes.
The win marks Grant's third PSA Tour title success in Pakistan after winning the COAS International in February 2004 and the CAS International in August 2005 – both in Islamabad.