TAXILA: Aqeel Khan dispatched Rashid Khan 6-1, 6-0 to ease into the men’s singles second round of the First Chairman POF Board National Ranking Tennis Championships at the Ordnance Club Wah Cantt here on Monday.

It was one of 19 matches decided on the opening day of the tournament oragnised by the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) Sports Control Board with collaboration with Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF).

POF director Industrial and commercial relations Tabassum Rehman inaugurated the event.

POF Sports Control Board president Dr Aamir Murad informed that competitions in the categories of men’s singles, ladies singles, boy’s under-18 singles, boys’ under-14 singles, boys & girls under-10 singles, men’s doubles and 45-Plus men’s doubles will be held.

The tournament concludes on Sunday.

Results:

Men’s singles (final qualifying round): Raja Shahid bt Aftab Ahmed Memon 6-2, 6-1; Asadullah beat Saqib Umer 6-4, 6-3; Talha Bin Asif bt Jibran-ul-Haq 6-4, 6-2; Hamid-ul-Haq bt Ikramullah Khan 6-2, 6-3; Tahirullah bt Sheeraz Bhand 6-1, 6-7 (4-7), 6-3; Yousaf Khan bt Ahmed Asjad Qureshi 6-2, 6-3; Rashid Khan bt Hamza Bin Asif 7-6 (7-3), 6-3; Adnan Rashid bt Ilham Khan 6-2, 6-3.

Men’s singles (first round): Aqeel Khan bt Rashid Khan 6-1, 6-0; Haris Irfan-ul-Haq bt Ejaz Khan 6-1, 6-2; Ahmed Ch bt Qasim Ali 6-1, 6-1; Heera Ashiq bt Shaheen Mehmood 6-0, 6-2; Usman Rafiq bt Malik Abdul Rehman 7-5, 6-4; Muzamil Murtaza bt Asadullah 6-1, 6-4; Aman Atiq bt Mudassir Murtaza 7- 5, 6-3; Ahmed Babar bt Adnan Rashid 6-1, 6-2; Shahzad bt Abdal Haider 6-4, 6-3.

Boys’ under-18 singles (first round): Zeeshan Bachani bt Izhar Iftikhar 7-6 (7-3), 6-1; Abdul Sami Qureshi bt Hamza Saeed 6-0, 6-1; Saqib Umar bt Abdul Samad Areejo 6-3, 6-1; M. Abdullah bt Abdullah Khalid 6-0, 6-0; Talha Bin Asif bt Jehanzaib Inam 6-0, 6-1; Ilham Khan bt Nalain Abbas 6-1, 6-0.

Boys’ under-14 singles (first round): Subhan Bin Salik bt Raja Azan—walkover; Bilal Asim bt Asad Bachani 5-4 (6-4), 4-1; Hamza Roman bt S. Mohammad Ahmed 4-0, 4- 0; Hameed Israr bt Ahmed Nael Qureshi 4-1, 4-1.

Published in Dawn October 18th, 2016