KARACHI, April 6 Brothers -- Aqeel and Jalil, Zuhair and Abbas together with Robin Das -- completed the men's singles quarter-final line-up on Monday in the Sindh Open ranking tennis championship at a local club.

Top seed Aqeel Khan registered a crushing 6-1, 6-1 victory over Mirpurkhas's Nawab Muzaffar, second seed Jalil Khan accounted for Mohammad Ali 6-4, 6-2, sixth seed Zuhair Raza had a 6-1, 6-0 short work of Sikander Hayat Khan, eighth seed Abbas Raza routed Asadullah Khan 6-4, 6-4 while seventh seed Robin inflicted 6-4, 6-3 defeat on Quetta's Shahbaz Khosa.

Three players namely Nomi Qamar, Vinod Das and Yasir Khan made it to the last eight on Sunday.

Aqeel is drawn to face Vinod at 12.00noon on Tuesday. In the other matches, Yasir is pitted against Zuhair, Abbas takes on Nomi while Robin meets Jalil.

The turn out in ladies singles has left much to be desired. According to organisers, only five women's have entered in the contest which is surprisingly played on pro-set.

Results

Men's Singles (pre quarter-finals)

Aqeel Khan bt Nawab Muzzaffar (Mirpurkhas) 6-1, 6-1; Syed Zuhair Raza bt Sikander Hayat Khan 6-1, 6-0; Syed Abbas Raza bt Asadullah Khan 6-4, 6-4; Robin Das bt Shahbaz Khosa (Quetta) 6-4, 6-3; Jalil Khan bt Mohammed Ali 6-4, 6-2.

Juniors' U-17 singles (second round)

Nameer Shamsi bt Qazi Zain 6-2, 6-3.

Quarter-finals

Mustafa Zaidi bt Murtazain 6-2, 6-2; Abdul Rehman walkover Saad.

Boys' U-15 singles (second round)

Talha Zubair bt Saud Shoaib 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Uzair A. Qadir bt Salar Umer 6-3, 6-2; Farhan Mustafa bt Rabiuddin 6-0, 6-1; Fraz A. Faiz walkover Feroz.

Boys and girls U-13 singles (second round)

Talha Zubair bt Hassan Siddiqui 8-2; Sanwal Memon bt Salman Mati 8-5; Shehroz bt Maheen Dada 8-6; Fraz A. Faiz bt Ahmed Shahis 8-0; Saud Shoaib bt Adnan Allawala 8-1.

Ladies singles (round robin)

Anita Pasha bt Naz Samad 8-2; Seher Khwaja bt Anita Pasha 8-0.

Men's doubles (quarter-finals)

Robin Das and Vinod Das bt Asgher Sawani and Waseem Hyder 6-3, 7-5; Faraz Ahsan and Samael bt Chengez Hasan and Sikander Hayat 6-4, 6-4.

Tuesday's fixtures

Men's singles 10.00am; ladies singles 11.00am; juniors U-17 singles 12.00noon; boys' U-15 singles, boys and girls U-13 singles 2.30pm; boys' and girls U-11 singles and boys U-9 singles 3.30pm; men's doubles, juniors U-17 doubles 3.30pm.

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