Qamar Zaman (born 1952, in
Quetta,
Pakistan) is a former
squash
player from Pakistan. He was one of the leading players in the game in
the 1970s and 1980s. His biggest triumph was winning the
British Open in 1975. He lives in
Peshawar. Qamar won the Pakistan junior squash championship in 1968. On his first trip to the
United Kingdom
in 1973, he reached the semi-finals of the British Amateur
championship. In 1974, he reached the semi-finals of the British Open
and won the Australian Amateur championship. In the 1975 British Open, Qamar beat the defending-champion
Geoff Hunt of
Australia in the quarter-finals, and went on to win the title beating his fellow Pakistani player
Gogi Alauddin in the final 9-7, 9-6, 9-1. Subsequently, Qamar reached the British Open final on four further
occasions. He was runner-up to Hunt in 1978, 1979 and 1980, and to
Jahangir Khan in 1984. He was also runner-up at the
World Open four times, losing to Hunt in the finals of 1976, 1979 and 1980, and to Jahangir in 1984.
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