ISLAMABAD, Oct 13 A record number of entries have been received in the Subh-e-Nau National Clay Court Tennis Championship at the Pakistan Tennis Federation Complex on Tuesday.

More than 190 players are competing in the six-day event and sixty-four matches were decided in the men's singles and boys' junior U-17 event.

Top seed Aqeel Khan beat Ahmed Chowdhry to start his quest for the title. Asim Shafik, Jalil Khan, Yasir Khan and Tanveer Ashiq allso reached next round of the men's singles.

In the boys U-17, 23 matches were decided on the first day.

Hard court champion Heera Ashiq, Basit Gabol and Ahmed Chowdhry were among others to qualify for the next round.

Ladies singles, men's doubles and boys' juniors' U-13 matches will start from Wednesday. Finals of the championship will be played on Sunday.

Results

Men's singles main round Aqeel Khan bt Ahmed Ch 6-1, 6-1; Asim Shafik w/o Khalid Afridi; Jalil Khan w/o Adnan Rashid; Yasir Khan bt Amanwal Anwar 6-1, 6-1; M. Abid bt Ahsan 6-0, 6-2; Hameedulhaq bt Talha Dar 7-6, 7-5; Heera Ashiq bt Imran Shaukat 6-0, 6-1; Tanveer Ashiq bt Jibran-ul-Haq 6-2, 6-3; Rashid Malik bt Sajid Ali 6-1, 6-0; Samir Iftikhar bt Ali Mura 6-0, 6-0; Hassan Riaz w/o Ahmed Ijaz; Jehanzeb Khan w/o Ahmed Dar; S. Zohair Raza w/o Salman; Omar Babar bt Hussain Imam Pirzada 6-0, 6-0; Basit Gabol w/o Zeeshan; Khurram Nazir bt Yasin Abbasi 6-3, 6-0; Nouman-ul-Haq w/o

Fahad; Usman Ijaz bt Abbas Raza Lodhi 6-0, 6-0; S. Abbas Raza bt Amir Shuja 6-1, 6-0; Kamran Khalil w/o Shehzad Khan; Malik Abdul Rehman bt Hassan Tariq 6-1, 6-2; M. Waqas Malik bt Ahmed 6-2, 6-3; Zain Abbas bt Fahad Mahmood 6-0, 6-0; Munir Ashiq bt Usman Rafiq 6-1, 6-2; Sadan-ul-Haq w/o Salman; Fahad Masood w/o Shahid Khan; Adeel Maik bt Omair Khan 6-7,6-4, 6-4.

Boys junior U-17

Ali Murad bt Abdal Haider 4-0, 4-2; Basit Gabol w/o Salman Ahmed; Ahmed Durrani w/o Imtiaz; Asad Mahmood bt Amir Shuja 4-1, 4-2; Ahmed Babar w/o M.Ali Talib; Usman Rafiq bt Sher Shah 4-1, 4-2; Sheheryar Ahmed w/o Zain Ali; Omair Khan w/o Farahad Ali Raja; Asjad Aitezaz w/o Iftikhar; Khyber Shah bt Adnan Amir 4-5, 4-0, 4-1 Aqil Khan w/o Arbaz Kazi Saad Ijaz w/o Salman bin Saleem Fahad Mahmood bt Hassan ahmed 4-1, 4-2; Kashan-ul-Haq bt Asad Abdul Shakoor 4-2, 5-3; M.Abid bt Saad Zafar 4-2, 4-2; Hamza Zafar w/o Shah Hussain; Talha Zubair bt M.Mudassir 5-4, 4-2; Amanwal Anwar bt Hassan tariq 4-1, 4-2; Sajid Ali bt Hassan Mustafa 4-2, 4-2; Ahmed Ch bt Hassan Riaz 5-3, 4-2; Talal Alamas bt Shahzeb 2-4, 4-2, 4-2.

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