LAHORE: Veteran Pakistan player Aqeel Khan comfortably defeated Shahzad Khan on Tuesday to reach the men’s singles quarter-final of the Sheheryar Malik Memorial Pakistan Open Tennis Championship here at the Sports Board Punjab Tennis Academy.

Aqeel won the match 6-4, 6-4 to enter the last-eight stage.

Shoaib Khan, Barkatullah, Abu Bakr, Mohammad Abid, Yousuf Khalil and Muzammil Murtaza also won their respective matches to qualify for the quarter-finals.

On the women’s side, Ushna Sohail, Noor Malik, Khunsha Babar, Rahat-ul-Ain made the quarters.

Results:

Men’s singles (pre-quarterfinals): Shoaib Khan bt Amir Mazari 6-1,6-1; Aqeel Khan bt Shehzad Khan 6-4, 6-4; Barkatullah bt Sami Zeb Khan 7-5, 6-2; Abu Bakr Talha bt Haider Ali Rizwan 6-2, 6-2; M. Abid bt Heera Ashiq 7-6, 6-4; Yousuf Khalil bt Huzaima Abdul Rehman 6-1, 7-6; Muzammil Murtaza bt Hasheesh Kumar 6-1, 7-6.

Women’s singles (pre-quarterfinals): Noor Malik bt Laiba Iqbal Khan 6-1, 6-1; Ushna Sohail beat Fajar Fayyaz 6-0, 6-0; Khunsha Babar bt Momina Imran 6-0, 6-0; Rahat-ul-Ain bt Mahrukh Sajid 6-2, 6-2

Boys U-18 (pre-quarterfinals): Hamza Asim bt M.Rayyan Khan 6-1, 6-1; M. Salaar bt Yafat Nadeem 6-1, 6-2; M. Yahya bt Husnain Ali Rizwan 6-0, 6-0; Abdul Basit bt Hassan Usmani 6-4, 7-6; Asad Zaman bt Haziq Areejo 6-2, 6-2

Boys U-14 (pre-quarterfinals): Hassan Usmani bt Aalay Hussain 4-0, 4-1; Syed Mahad Shehzad bt Ansarullah 4-1, 4-2; Ruhab Faisal bt Ohad-e-Mustafa 4-1, 4-0; M. Shayan Afridi bt M. Muaz 4-0, 4-1; M. Junaid bt Zayd Zaman 2-4, 4-1, 4-0; Abdur Rehman bt Waqas Janas 4-2, 5-3; Razik Sultan bt Aliyan Ali 4-1, 4-2; Omer Jawad bt M. Umer Ali 4-0, 4-0.

Boys U-12 (first round): Ehsan Bari bt Mustafa Zia 5-4,4-2; Mohammad Junaid bt Salman Pirzada 5-4, 4-0; Mohammad Ahyan bt Qazi Ahyan Babar 4-0, 4-1; Aliyan Ali bt Mamnoon Bari 4-0, 4-0; Omer Zaman bt M. Turab Bhatti 4-1, 4-0; Zayd Zaman bt Ameen Abdullah 4-0, 4-0; M. Arsh Imran bt Daniyal Afzal Malik 4-0, 4-0; M. Faizan bt M. Azan Imran 4-0, 4-0; Mohammad Ali bt M. Ibrahim Hussain Gill 4-2, 0-4, 10-8; Ohad-e-Mustafa bt Zayd Mansoor 4-2, 4-2; Ansarullah bt Mustafa Uzair Rana 4-2, 4-1; Majid Ali Bachani bt Shazain Faisal 4-2, 4-1.

Published in Dawn, October 23th, 2024