KARACHI Sarwan Memon, after a fighting three-set contest, defeated Basit Gabol 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the junior under-17 first round of the Maroof Ranking Tennis here at DA Tennis Club on Friday. In boys/girls under-13 event, Marib Malik shocked top seed Azher Qadir 8-4 in the opening round. Maheen Dada, a teenaged girl playing in the event opened to both boys and girls, also advanced in net round defeating Bilal Imran 8-2. Results of other matches played on Friday: Ladies singles, first round: Urooj Iltifat beat Mazia Hassan 8-4, Hajra Nadeem w/o Waniya Khan. Juniors u-17 singles, first round: Sarwan Memon beat Basit Gabol 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, Sheheryar Ahmed w/o Sufyan Shiwani. Boys u-11 singles, first round: Muhammed Bilal Imran (seed one) beat Kanishkan (Sri Lanka) 8-4, Naeem beat Shazil Malik 8-5, Suhail Fayyaz beat Tala Siddiqui 8-3, Houd Azher w/o Shehzad Salim, Jamshed Javed beat Sameer Shehzad 9-7, Sarim Javed beat Sheryar Jamal 8-4. Boys u-13, first round: Marib Malik beat Azher A Qadir (top seed) 8-6, Saad Rasool beat Mir Ali Talpur (Hyderabad) 8-0, Maheen Dada beat M Bilal Imran 8-2. Seniors 60 plus doubles: Gulzar Firoz/Nisar Khara beat Asad Zaidi/Akhter Qureshi 6-0, 6-1. Seniors 45 plus doubles, first round: Karim Gul Agha/Akhter Aliman beat Ahsan Hafeez/Arshad Abrar 6-1, 6-2, Javed Iqbal/Azheruddin beat Zafer Hassan/Khalid Mustaghees 6-2 (rtd).