LAHORE: While top seed Aqeel Khan had an easy sailing in his pre-quarterfinal, another seeded player Mohammad Abid struggled to win his last-16 match of the third Nayza All-Pakistan Open Tennis Championship here at the Punjab Lawn Tennis Association courts on Friday.

Veteran Aqeel comfortably defeated Asadullah 6-3, 6-3 in their men’s singles match that ended in just 22 minutes. Abid recovered from one set down to subdue Ahmed Chaudhry 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 in their pre-quarterfinal lasting 30 minutes.

In another thrilling last-16 clash, Mohammad Shoaib was stretched to three sets before he overwhelmed Ahmed Babar 3-6, 6-3, 6-0.

Heera Ashiq, Yousuf Khalil, Abdul Haider, Muzammil Murtaza and Mudassir Murtaza registered straight set victories to reach men’s singles quarter-finals.

Meanwhile, seven first-round matches of boys U-18 and six of boys U-14 were also decided.

Results:

Men’s singles (pre-quarterfinals):

Heera Ashiq bt Malik Abdul Rehman 6-4, 6-2; Mohammad Shoaib bt Ahmed Babar 3-6, 6-3, 6-0; Yousuf Khalil bt Waqas Malik 6-3, 6-1; Abdul Haider bt Ahmed Waqas 6-4, 6-2; Muzammil Murtaza bt Barkatullah 6-2, 7-5; Mohammad Abid bt Ahmed Chaudhry 4-6, 6-1, 6-3; Aqeel Khan bt Asadullah 6-3, 6-3; Mudassir Murtaza bt Usman Rafique 6-2, 6-4

U-18 (first round):

Izhar Iftikhar bt Zain Chaudhry 6-2, 6-3; Mohammad Shoaib bt Hassan Ali 6-1, 6-2; Parbhat Kumar bt Farman Shakeel 6-2, 6-2; Musa Haroon bt Syed Mohammad Mustafa 6-2, 7-5; Musa Chaudhry bt Sufwan Adil 6-0, 6-0; Nalain Abbas bt Ibrahim 6-1, 6-1; Osama Khan bt Inam Arif 6-1, 6-2

U-14 (first round):

Shakeel Durab bt Ghazi Ahmed 4-2, 4-2; Husnain Ali Rizwan bt Asad 4-1, 4-1; Hamza Jawad bt Ali Sheikh 4-0, 4-0; Yahya Musa Luni bt Shehryar Anees 4-2, 4-2; Ahmed Nael bt Shahzaib Zahid 4-2, 4-2; Waleed Jawed bt Amaan Nadeem 4-0, 4-0

Published in Dawn, November 17th, 2018