(10) Masud Rana - BAN bt (7)Hira Bahadur Thapa - NEP  [11-3, 11-7, 4-11, 10-12, 11-7] (50)

Missed opportunities for both...

Rana held on to dispatch Thapa after jumping out to a quick 2 game lead in the first round of the 11th South Asian Games here in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Rana's indecisiveness at the front led many missed opportunities to finish off points, but in the end he found an answer for the patient, deliberate game of Thapa.

Rana moves on to face Aamir Atlas Khan, no easy task as Khan sits in the top 20 in the world and just celebrated his greatest victory of then-No. 1 Gregory Gaultier of France in the Qatar Classic.

(8) Shopon Pervez - BAN bt (9) Tak Kumar Tilija - NEP  [11-3, 11-5, 12-10]  (30)

Pervez moves on after taking straight games from Tilija.  Pervez, the local #1 and eighth seed of the tournament, will have his hands full with Farhan Mehboob of Pakistan.  Team Bangladesh is hoping to make a good showing of it and play smart squash against a very talented Pakistan team.