KARACHI: First-round matches were decided in the boys’ single U-18, U-14 and U-10 and men’s singles and doubles as the Indus Pharma National Seniors & Juniors Tennis Championships started here at the Karachi Club Hard Courts on Saturday.

Results:

Boys’ U-18 singles (second-round): Malik Hasnanin bt Ibrahim Sheikh 6-1, 6-1; Dhuraf Das bt Shamoon 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Soyam Sham bt Rayan Ahmed 6-2, 6-3; Raahim Veqar bt Ijaz Abbasi 2-6. 7-5, 6-0.

Boys’ U-14 singles (qualifying-round): Samir Zaman bt Laraib Shamsi 4-0, 4-0. Fahad Gul bt Hamadan Nauman 6-2, 6-1; Yahya Zain Sheikh bt Arham Shehzad 4-2, 5-3

Boys & Girls U-12 singles (first-round): Ali Admani bt Hamadan Nauman 4-0, 4-0; Abubakaer Sohail bt Muhammad Noor 4-1, 4-2; Rohan Das bt M. Hassan 4-1, 4-0; Rahim Faisal bt Ayra Haseeb 4-1, 4-0

Boys U-10 singles (first-round): Nayyel Sohaib bt Umer Zaman 4-2, 4-0; Aidh Imran bt Huzaifa Zahid 4-0, 4-0

Men’s doubles (first-round): Taha Bande Ali/Hasan Godil bt Haseeb Javed/Ammad 8-3; Khalid Ali Nazar/Samir Piracha bt Bilal Soomro/Mustafa Tariq 8-4, Zubair Raja/Omer Shahid bt Baqir Ali/Raahim Veqar 9-7

Men’s singles (first-round): Taha Bande Ali bt Hasan Godil 8-5; Omer Shahid Mania bt Arshad Shahid 6-2, 6-2; Raahim Veqar beat Muham 8-3

Published in Dawn, March 13th, 2023