KARACHI, Oct 27 Unseeded Zaid Noor Sumar continued his winning spree while imposing a straight sets victory over Mustafa Zaidi to enter first men's singles final of his career in the 10th STA development series tennis championship at the City Sports Complex on Wednesday.

Zaid, who toppled his elder brother and second seed Saif earlier, handed a 6-3, 7-5 defeat to his opponent on way to making it to the final. He is slated to meet the winner of semi-final which was in progress between Syed Abbas Raza and top seed Omer Shahid at the time of filing this report.

Zoya Khan and Maheen Dada will be up against each other in the ladies singles final. The former edged Uroosa Ahmed 8-4 in the second pre-final to complete the final lineup.

Mustafa Zaidi, however, earned some consolation when he together with Farhan Mustafa stormed into juniors' under-17 final. The former disposed off Saad Noor Sumar 6-3, 6-1 while the latter whipped Malik Hamza 6-2, 7-5 in two semi-finals.

Meanwhile, curtain falls on the event on Thursday with all the finals on card.

Results
Men's singles

Quarter-final Syed Abbas Raza bt Rafi Derbari (Hyderabad) 6-2, 6-7, 6-3.
Semi-final Zaid Noor Sumar bt Mustafa Zaidi 6-3, 7-5.

Ladies singles

Semi-final Zoya Khan bt Uroosa Ahmed 8-4.

Boys and girls under-9 singles

Semi-final Mohammed Dada bt Mustafa Khaleeq 8-0.

Boys and girls under-13 singles

Quarter-finals Hassan Farooq bt Bilal Imran Lohya 8-2; Ibrahim Iltifat bt bt Laiba Khan 8-5.

Boys and girls under-11 singles

Quarter-final Hassan Farooq bt M. Muneeb 8-3.Semi-final Raza Sawani bt Houd Azhar 8-1.

Juniors' under-17 singles

Semi-finals Mustafa Zaidi bt Saad Noor Sumar 6-3, 6-1; Farhan Mustafa bt Malik Hamza 6-2, 7-5.

Boys and girls under-15 singles

Quarter-final Hassan Siddiqui bt M. Maaz 8-4.

Thursday's fixtures

Juniors' under-17 final 10.30am; boys and girls under-9 final, boys and girls under-11 final, boys and girls under-13 final and boys and girls under-15 final 3.00pm; ladies singles final and men's singles final 4.00pm.

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