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Published 07 Jun, 2009 12:00am

Brothers Saif, Zaid in quarters of Maroof Tennis

KARACHI, June 6 Soomar brothers — Saif and Zaid — produced awesome performance when they progressed into men's singles quarter-finals of the Maroof Trophy tennis tournament at Beach View Club on Saturday.

Seventh seed Saif knocked out promising junior Mustafa Zaidi 6-2, 6-2 while unseeded sibling Zaid inflicted 6-4, 6-3 defeat on Sikander Hayat Khan in the pre quarters.

Those who joined the above two in the last eight include top seed Nomi Qamer, second seed Nasir Mushtaq, and sixth seed Vinod Das

Results

Men's singles

Pre quarter-finals Nomi Qamer bt M. Abdul Saeed 6-1, 6-1; Zaid Noor Soomar bt Sikander Hayat Khan 6-4, 6-3; Saif Noor Soomar bt Mustafa Zaidi 6-2, 6-2; Vinod Das bt S. M. Naeem 6-0, 6-0; Nasir Mushtaq walkover Farhan Ahmed.

Ladies singles

Round robin Seher Khwaja bt Anita Pasha 8-3.

Boys' under-15 singles

First round M. Jahangir Khan bt Usman Shabbir 6-4, 6-2; Nameer Shamsi walkover Shaan; Nabeel Naseer bt Rabiuddin 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Fraz A Faiz bt Nadeem 6-3, 6-1; Aamir bt Khalid Zaman 6-3, 6-3; Talha Zubair Surmawala bt Ali Husain 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Uzair A. Qadir bt Ahad Ahmed 6-2, 6-3.

Boys' under-9 singles

Danial Ashraf bt Najeeb 8-8 (5); Muneeb Ahmed bt Shazil Abdul Rehman 8-0; Talal Siddiqui bt Mohammed Dada 8-5.

Boys' and girls under-13 singles

First round Taha Bande Ali bt Asim Allahwala 8-2; Sanwal Memon bt Rabiuddin 8-0; Murad Khan walkover Saifullah Faisal.

Boys' and girls under-11 singles

First round Asim Allahwala bt Jalaluddin Baber (MirpurKhas) 8-2.

Sunday's fixtures

Juniors' under-17 singles 9.00am; men's singles 10.00am; boys' and girls under-11 and under-13 singles 12.00noon; ladies singles 2.30pm; juniors' doubles 4.00pm.

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