KARACHI, March 26 The quarter-final line up in the men`s team event of Inter-firm table tennis tournament was drawn on Thursday when eight teams, top two from each group, stormed into last eight at the Islamia Club.

The teams include PSO `A` and Allied Engineering `A` (group A); KESC and Allied Engineering `B` (group B); Glaxo Smithkline and Pakistan Petroleum Limited `A` (group C), PSO `B` and Hinopak `A` (group D).

Meanwhile, the men`s singles event which commenced the other day has reached the third round.

Results

Emirates Global Islamic Bank bt Sonafi Aventis B 3-0 (Ahmed Tansir bt Saeed Altaf 8-11, 9-11, 11-3, 11-5, 11-5; Shehryar Iqbal bt S. Adnan 11-8, 11-4, 11-3; Irfan Tayyab bt M. Shahid 11-7, 12-10, 8-11, 9-11, 13-11).

Allied Engineering A bt Hinopak B 3-0 (Shahid Ahmed bt M. Farooq 13-15, 11-7, 13-11, 15-13; Yousuf Shoaib bt Syed Nadeem 11-3, 11-8, 11-1; Imran Saleem bt Kamran Asghar 11-9, 11-9, 11-9).

Pakistan State Oil A bt Hinopak B 3-0 (Saleem Iqbal bt Nadeem 11-5, 11-4, 11-3; A. H. Bhatti bt Farooq 11-3, 11-6, 11-5; Atif Siddiqui bt Kamran 9-11, 11-5, 11-6, 11-4).

Hinopak B bt Sonafi Aventis 3-0 (Kamran Asghar bt S. Adnan 11-6, 11-7, 11-7; Farooq bt Saad Altaf 11-3, 11-8, 11-5; Nadeem bt M. Shahid 11-4, 14-12, 13-11).

KESC bt Popular Fabrics 3-1 (Syed Ziauddin lost to Nusrat Farooqi 6-11, 6-11, 3-11; Irshad Mamsa bt Faisal Ansari 11-6, 11-6, 11-4; Abdul Wahab bt M. Mudassar 11-1, 7-11, 14-12, 12-10; Irshad Mamsa bt M. Sultan 11-4, 6-11, 11-6, 8-11, 11-5; M. Sufyan bt Umer Daraz Faiz 11-3, 11-4, 5-11, 11-7).

Allied Engineering B bt Pakistan Petroleum Limited 3-1 (M. Sufyan bt Qadir Sharif 11-5, 12-10, 5-11, 11-9; Javed Salman lost to Umer Daraz Faiz 7-11, 12-10, 11-6, 5-11, 8-11; Zohaib Saleem bt M. Sultan 11-4, 6-11, 11-6, 8-11, 11-5; M. Sufyan bt Umer Daraz Faiz 11-3, 11-4, 5-11, 11-7).

Pakistan Petroleum Limited B bt Popular Fabrics 3-2 (Umair bt Faisal 11-4, 11-8, 11-9; Qadir lost to Nusrat 9-11, 5-11, 7-11; M. Sultan bt M. Mudassar 11-4, 11-5, 12-10; Umair lost to Nusrat 1-11, 7-11, 9-11; Qair bt Faisal 11-6, 9-11, 12-10, 11-8).

New Jubilee Insurance bt Pakistan Petroleum Limited A 3-2 (Aslam Yaqoob lost to S. Azhar Ali 6-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-8, 6-11; Farrukh Kamal bt M. Aijaz 11-7, 11-6, 11-7; Nadeem Akbar lost to Salman Haider 2-11, 2-11, 2-11; Farrukh Kamal bt S. Azhar Ali 11-5, 11-9, 11-3; Aslam Yaqoob bt M. Aijaz 11-9, 6-11, 7-11, 11-8, 11-5).