ISLAMABAD  - Top seeds advanced to the second round of men's singles of Warid national ranking tennis championship, after defeating their respective opponents in the first round matches played here at Senator Dilawar Abbas PTF Tennis Complex on Sunday.
Six seed Sanaullah and eight seed M Mudassar struggled hard to win their matches in three hard-fought sets, while all the other seeded players registered straight sets win against their respective opponents.
Pakistan No 1 U-18 player Syed Nofil Kaleem, Aman Attique, M Muzammil, Hamza, Arham Attique, Talha Zubair, Talha Bin Asif and Muhammad Mudassar moved to the quarterfinals of the boys U-18 event. Unseeded Talha Zubair of Karachi made the major upset of the event, as he eliminated fourth seed Husnain Manzoor of Lahore in straight sets 6-2, 6-3.  In the boys U-14 category, Ahmed Ihtesham, Nouman Aftab, Musa Chaudhry, M Talal, Bilal Imran Loyia and Saad Abjad advanced to the quarterfinals by carving out contrasting victories.
Results: Men's singles first round: M Abid beat Syed Yawar Abbas 6-1 6-1; Ahmed Babar beat Imran Shoukat 6-4 6-3; Omer Babar beat Zain Nawab 6-2 1-6 7-6(2); Sanaullah beat Haseeb Yaqoob 6-3 4-6 6-1; Usman Rafiq beat Hamza Bin Asif 6-4 6-4; Faizan Khurram beat Shahid Afridi 6-1 6-2; Talah Bin Asif beat Rashid Khan 6-0 7-6(4); M Mudassar beat M Muzammil 6-7(3) 6-4 6-1; Arham Attique beat Husnain Manzoor 6-4 6-3; Aman Attique beat Wakeel Khan 6-4 6-4; Shahzad Khan beat Omer Maniya 4-1 (Retd), Ahmed Ch. beat Abdal Haider 6-1 6-2; Abbas Khan beat Abdul Rahman Malik 6-7(4) 6-2 6-2; Shahzad beat Malik Hamza 6-3 6-0; Talaha Zubair beat Ijaz Khan 4-6 6-0 6-0 and Yasir Khan beat Imad Amir 6-0 6-1.
Boy's U-18 singles 2nd round: Muhammad Mudassar beat Sahaibzada M. Ali 6-2 6-2; Syed Nofil Kaleem beat Khalid Ali 6-0 6-0; Aman Attique beat Saad Abjad 6-2 6-2; Muhammad Muzammil beat Malik Hamza 6-3 6-1; Hamza Abjad beat Husnain PSB 6-3 6-1; Arham Attique beat S.Yawar Abbas 6-2 6-4; Talaha Zubair beat Hussnain Manzoor 6-2 6-3 and Talaha Bin Asif beat Abdal Haider 6-3 6-4.
 Boy's U-14 singles pre-quarterfinals: Saad Abjad beat Amin Shafi 6-2 6-2; M.Talal beat Abdullah Javed 6-2 6-1; Ahmed Ihtesham w/o Anzhala; Nouman Aftab w/o Muneeb Sajid; Musa Ch w/o Imran; Bilal Imran Loyia beat M Ibrahim 6-0 6-0.
Men's doubles pre-quarterfinals: Zain/Haseeb beat Wakeel/Ijaz Khan 6-2 6-3; Omer/Ahmed Babar beat Abbas Khan/Ikramullah 6-2 6-1.
Men's singles pre-quarterfinals will start at 9:30am, while U- 18 and U-14 at 12:30pm and men's doubles at 3:30 pm.