LAHORE: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad and Railways won their respective matches to qualify for quarter-finals of the third Chromatex Table Tennis Masters Cup here on Friday.

Results: Men’s team event (pre-quarter-finals): KP beat AJK 3-0: Sajid bt Umair 3-0; Syed Atif Ali bt Seemab 3-0, Fahad Khan bt Jehangir 3-1. Islamabad beat MLC 3-1: Nazim Ashraf (MLC)

bt Bilal 3-0, Rehan bt Aleemuddin 3-0; Qmar bt Jaffar 3-0, Rehan bt Nazim Ashraf 3-2.Railways beat Fata 3-1: Massod Ali bt Bilal 3-0; Hamid Siddiqui bt Roohullah 3-0, Abdul Rehman (Fata) bt Faizan 3-0, Masood Ali bt Roohullah 3-1.

Women’s team event (Group League): HEC beat MLC 3-1: Iqra Saeed (MLC) bt Farah 3-1, Saba bt Humaira 3-0, Anam Saeed bt Azra 3-0. MLC beat KP 3-0: Nairus Fareed won 3-0, Saba bt Iqra Saeed 3-0, Iqra Saeed bt Madiha 3-0, Nairus Fareed bt Sana 3-1, Humaira bt Noureen 3-0.

HEC beat KPK 3-1: Sahrish (HEC) bt Sana 3-1, Anam Saeed (HEC) bt Madiha 3-0, Atiqa (HEC) bt Noureen 3-0.

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