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Published 28 Jan, 2010 12:00am

Eman stuns Urooj to bag SSB Tennis title

KARACHI, Jan 27 Sindh No 1 Eman Malik made short-work of Urooj Iltifat to land the women's singles title in the SSB Development Series Tennis championship played on Tuesday evening at the City Sports Complex.

The 18-year-old Eman who is catching up fast in the circuit trounced her opponent 6-0, 6-0 in the final.

The final was staged earlier as Eman had to fly to Islamabad to represent Karachi University in the Inter-university girls' tennis championship.

Meanwhile, top seed Nawab Muzaffar of Mirpurkhas and second seed Saif Noor Sumar stormed into the men's singles semi-finals on Wednesday. The outstation player defeated Fayyaz Ahmed 6-4, 6-2 while the second seed carved out 6-0, 6-0 victory over Adeel Imtiaz.

Mubbashir Afridi and Omer Shahid have already sailed into the last four.

M. Bilal Imran defeated Suhail Fayyaz 8-6 to win the boys under-9 singles crown.

Results

Men's singles

Quarter-finals Nawab Muzaffar (Mirpurkhas) bt Fayyaz Ahmed 6-4 6-2;
Saif Noor Sumar bt Adeel Imtiaz 6-0, 6-0.

Boys' under- 11 singles

Semi-final M. Bilal Imran bt Jalaluddin Baber (Mirpurkhas) 8-6.Boys' under-15 singles

Quarter-finals Talha Zubair Surmawala bt Aqeel Khan 6-0, 6-1; Ammad Ali bt Nadeem - walkover; Ammad Ali bt Sarwan Memon - walkover.

Juniors' under-17 singles

Semi-final Adil Kohari bt Talha Zubair Surmawala 6-2 6-1.

Boys' under-9 singles

Semi-finals Suhail Fayyaz bt Shahzil Malik - walkover; M. Bilal Imran bt Houd Azhar 8-3.
Final M. Bilal Imran bt Suhail Fayyaz 8-6.

Ladies singles

Final Eman Malik bt Urooj Iltifat 6-0, 6-0.

Men's doubles

First round M. Abdul Saeed and Mohammed Naseem bt Bilal Soomro and Noorullah 6-2, 6-3; Faiq Azam and Zain Haqqi bt Ali and Adeel Imtiaz 2-6, 6-4, 7-6; Noman Farid and Qamar Habib (Hyd) bt Nawab Muzaffar (Mirpurkhas) and Abdullah Khan 6-1, 7-5.

Juniors' under-17 doubles

Quarter-final Kazi Mohammed Murtaza an Ahsan Khan bt Saad Shahid and Anas Zahid 8-4.

Boys' under-13 singles

Quarter-final Azher A. Qadir walkover Sarwan Memon.
Semi-final Mihas Sabir bt Emad Najam 8-5.

Thursday's fixtures

Men's singles semi-finals and juniors under-17 singles final 1.00pm; boys under-11 singles final and boys under-15 singles final 2.00pm; boys under-9 singles final and boys under-13 singles final 3.00pm; men's doubles 4.00pm.

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