KARACHI: Top seed Mohammad Raza Sawani proved too good for up and coming Amin Shafi to reach last four in under-15 singles of the Sindh ranking tennis for Union Club trophy at the club premises on Saturday.

Sawani, who won 6-1, 6-0 faces Hania Naveed in the semi-final after the latter carved out 6-1, 7-5 victory over Rayyan Jawwad in the other first round match.

In yet another match, Ebad Sarwar was home 6-4, 6-4 over Shabbir Mohammad to advance into semis where he likely to meet second seed Hasan Farooq if nothing unforeseen happens.

Rayyan, however, earned some consolation when he beat Samir Shamsi 6-3, 6-2 to reach under-13 singles semis.

Results:

Men’s singles:

First round: Ibrahim Iltifat bt Robin Das 6-2, 2-6, 10-8.Under-15 singles:

First round: Mohammad Raza Sawani bt Amin Shafi 6-1, 6-0; Hania Naveed bt Rayyan Jawwad 6-1, 7-5; Ebad Sarwar bt Shabbir Mohammad 6-4, 6-4.

Under-13 singles:

First round: Rayyan Jawwad bt Syed Samir Shamsi 6-3, 6-2; Mohammad Ahmed bt Rida Khan 6-2, 6-3.

Under 11- singles:

Round robin: Ghufran Faiz bt Mohammad Yahya 8-3; Waqas Bhutto bt Saim Danish 8-2.

Sunday’s fixtures:

Matches start at 9.30am.—Sports Correspondent

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