KARACHI, June 10: Top seed Aqeel Khan have a comfortable sailing over wildcard Bakhtiar Memon of Hyderabad as main round of fourth Maroof Trophy ranking tennis tournament commenced at the DA Central Club on Sunday.

Aqeel won the battle 6-4, 6-0 to advance into last eight where he meets Saad Noor Sumar, who accounted for another wildcard Owais Ahmed from Hyderabad 6-1, 6-1 in the other match.

Men’s singles: First round: Aqeel Khan bt Bakhtiar Memon 6-4, 6-0; Saad Noor Sumar bt Owais Ahmed 6-1, 6-1; Adil Kohari bt Nomi Qamar (walkover); Vinod Das bt Fahad Anwar 3-2 (retired); Omer Shahid bt Sikander Hayat 6-2, 7-6; Hassan Siddiqui bt Nawab Muzaffar 6-3, 6-3.

Ladies singles: First round: Sara Ahmed bt Hajra Nadeem 6-1, 6-3; Neha Khan bt Kainat Zulfikar (walkover).

Juniors’ under-17 singles: First round: Hasnain Haider bt Bakhtiar Memon 7-6, (retired); Rafay Hafeez bt Omer Riaz (walkover); Dawar Rehan bt Farzan Azhar 6-2, 6-3; Owais Ahmed bt Khizer Tariq (walkover).

Juniors’ under-17 singles: Saud Shoaib bt Rafay Hafeez 6-4, 6-3.

Under-13 singles: First round: Jalaluddin Baber bt Aabdullah Imran 8-1; Hasan Farooq bt Bilal Imran 8-0; Hania Naveed bt M. Ameer Hamza 8-2.

Under-9 singles: First round: Asheesh bt Rayyan Jawad 8-2; Syeda Marzia bt Zara Haider 8-2; Safeer bt Yasir 8-0; Maher bt Syed Yousuf Ala 8-3.

Under-11 singles: First round: Parbad bt Umer Admani 8-1; Mustafa Admani bt Rida Khan 8-0.

45 plus doubles: First round: Waseem Haider and Moin Wahid bt Akhter Aliman and Farrukh Saleem 6-1, 6-0.

Monday’s fixtures: Matches start at 9am.

—Sports Correspondent