ISLAMABAD: The qualifying round for the Asian Tennis Tour will commence on Thursday.

Ahmed Choudhry and Mudasar Murtaza have been awarded wild-cards for the main draw while Kashanul Haq and Jibranul Haq have been given the wild-cards for the qualifying draw.

Meanwhile, in the national championship, which is part of Serena hotel’s Asian Tennis Tour, Mehak Khokhar, Mahin Aftab and Sarah Mahboob won their respective matches convincingly without giving any chance to their opponents at the Dilawar Abbas PTF Tennis Complex on Wednesday.

Results:

Women’s singles (first round):

Sara Mansoor bt Hania Naveed 6-2, 6-1; Mehak Khokhar bt Eshaal Khan 6-0, 6-0; Shimza Tahir bt Esha Jawad 6-1, 6-1; Sara Banoo bt Arooj 6-4, 7-5; Mahin Aftab bt Rukhsana Abid 6-0, 6-0; Sarah Mahboob bt Mahnoor Sohail 6-0, 6-0; Shiza Sajid bt Yasha Atiq Khan 1-6, 6-3, 6-3; Bakhtawar Haider walkover Imsha Jawad.

Boys’ U-18 singles (pre-quarter-finals):

Muzammil Murtaza bt Hamza Bin Rehan 6-1, 6-4; Saqib Umer bt Shakir Ullah 6-3, 6-4; Asadullah bt Waleed Anwar 6-0, 6-4; Abdal Haider bt Asad Mehmood Khan 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(5); Yousaf Khan bt M. Abdullah 6-1, 6-2; Barkat Ullah bt Huzaifa Abdul Rehman 7-5, 6-2; Mohammad Shoaib bt Izhar Iftikhar 6-2, 6-1; Aman Atiq bt Kashan Umer 6-0, 6-1.

Boys’ U-14 singles (pre-quarter-finals):

M. Shoaib bt Shayan Shamraiz 4-1, 4-1; Kashan Umer bt Hamza Roman 4-2, 1-4, 4-1; Nalain Abbas bt M. Huzaifa Khan 4-0, 4-0; Hamid Israr bt Abdul Wahab Anwar 3-5, 4-0, 4-1; Ahmed Kamil bt Adnan Khan 4-0, 5-3; Sami Zeb bt Ahmed Nael 4-0, 4-1; M. Abdullah bt Syed M. Ahmed 4-0, 4-0; Hamza Bin Rehan bt M. Talha Khan 4-0, 4-0;

Boys/Girls U-10 (first round):

Zainab Ali Raja bt Zara Lawangin 4-2, 4-0; Talha Khan bt Yahya Musa Luni 4-1, 4-0; Shiza Sajid bt Aamer Masood 4-1, 4-0; Huzaifa Khan bt Uzair Maqsood 4-0, 4-0; M. Moiz Gul bt Sameer Maqsood 4-1, 5-3; Ahmed Nael bt Fatima Ali Raja 4-0, 4-1.

Published in Dawn December 15th, 2016

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