LAHORE, April 16 The all-Pakistan Badminton tournament has entered quarter-final stage in women's section while first round matches of men's doubles were also decided in Sialkot.

National champion Palwashe Bashir, Sara Mohmind, Ayesha Akram, Sara Khan — all from National Bank of Pakistan, and Uzma Butt, Farzana Ali, Sadia Arshad, Rabia Malik of Wapda made the eight last with fine performances.

Results

Women's singles (pre-quarter-finals)

Aysha Akram (NBP) beat Aneela (Railway) (21-9),(21-12); Uzma Butt

(WAPDA) bt Dania Bibi (ISL) (21-3),(21-7); Sara Mohmind (NBP) bt Sidra (ISL) (21-10),(21-15); Farzana Ali (WAPDA) bt Aneeka Rana (WAPDA) (21-16),(21-11);Rabia Malik (WAPDA) bt Asma Butt (WAPDA) (21-18),(21-19); Palwashe Bashir (NBP) bt Sumaira (RLY) (21-11),(21-9).

Sadia Arshad (WAPDA) bt Khyzra (ISL) (21-17),(20-22),(21-12); Sara Khan (NBP) bt Zoya (FSD) (21-4),(21-7).

Men's doubles.

M. Attique-Rizwan Azam (WAPDA) got walk over against M. Asim-Muqarrab (Attock).

M. Ali-Waseem bt Imran Laeeq-Munir Akram (21-19),(21-18); Hashir Zaidi-Danish Altaf (WAPDA) bt Dr. Said-Hassan Zaidi (SINDH) (21-15),(21-16).

M. Ijaz-Atif Nadeem (NBP) bt Ali Raza-Zunair (Sialkot) (21-18),(21-15);

M. Waqas-Kashif Sulehri bt Adnan Siddiqui-Farhan Mohib (SINDH) (21-17),(19-21),(21-17); Ashrif Masih-Shabbir Hussain (WAPDA) bt Adil-Javed (Punjab) (21-17),(21-18); Aamir Islam-M. Naveed (WAPDA) bt Adnan-Adeeb Butt (Sialkot) (21-19),(21-19); Shafiq Ch.-Shoaib (Punjab) bt Zaheer-Akhtar (RLY) (21-19),(21-10).

Faisal Afzal-Muhammad Ali (FSD) bt Zeeshan Rana-Irfan Rana (Sialkot) (21-16),(21-18); Pervaiz Nabeel-Zohaib bt Imran Mughal-Fayyaz (Sialkot) (21-17),(21-15); Waqas Zahid-Taimoor Arab (RLY) beat Ali Nawab-Irfan Saaed (Pb) (21-18),(21-18); Umer Zeeshan-Zafar Tasneem (WAPDA) bt Hayyatullah-Nadeem Khan (NWFP) (21-11), (21-13); Tahir Khan-Masood-ur-Rahman (NWFP) bt Iftikhar- Tariq (21-19),(23-21); Rizwan Rana-Imran Mohib (WAPDA) bt M. Ali- Waseem Ismail (SINDH) (21-11),(21-15); Azhar Javed-M. Ali (New Khan) bt Murad-Ali Mehdi (21-18),(19-21),(21-19); Ahsan Qamar-Wajid Ali bt Saif-Azam (21-5),(21-10).

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