Pakistani teenage tennis participant Zainab Ali Naqvi collapsed throughout this week’s junior occasion in Islamabad and sadly handed away on the age of 17.
Ali Naqvi, who was one of the promising and proficient Pakistani juniors, got here to Islamabad to participate on this week’s ITF junior occasion there. After finishing a follow session on Monday, Ali Naqvi collapsed in her room and was discovered by her grandmother who instantly sought assist.
Ali Naqvi was instantly rushed to hospital, the place she sadly handed away attributable to a suspected coronary heart assault.
“It is vitally unhappy as a result of Zainab was a really promising participant on the ladies’s circuit and enthusiastically working exhausting to win the ITF junior competitions,” a senior Pakistan Tennis Federation official mentioned, by way of Press Belief of India.
In a press release, a Pakistani tennis official additionally mentioned the household of the deceased participant accepted coronary heart assault as the reason for loss of life and refused a postmortem to be carried out.
“The medical doctors suspect a coronary heart assault and have termed it as a pure reason for loss of life and her mother and father additionally did not need any postmortem and so they have been handed over her physique for transportation again to Karachi,” he mentioned.
Pakistani Tennis Federation assertion on the passing of Al Naqvi
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, a former Grand Slam finalist in doubles and the present president of the Pakistani Tennis Federation, expressed his deepest condolences to the Ali Naqvi household together with different members of the PTF.
“With deep sorrow and profound grief, the Pakistan Tennis Federation conveys that Miss Zainab Ali Naqvi – a younger tennis participant from Karachi handed away final evening (twelfth February 2024) in Islamabad,” the PTF mentioned in a press release.
“Mr. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, the President of the Pakistan Tennis Federation, Senator Salim Saifullah Khan, Ex-President PTF, PTF Council Members, and the tennis fraternity at giant provide their heartfelt condolences to the bereaved household.”