LAHORE - Top seeds Aqeel Khan, Muzammil Murtaza, M Abid, Shahzad Khan advanced to the next round of the 5th Shehryar Malik Memorial National Grass Court Tennis Championship 2021 here at the Punjab Tennis Academy, Bagh-e-Jinnah on Tuesday. 
In the first round matches, Pakistan’s longest serving No 1 player Aqeel Khan took little time to outpace Parbhat Kumar 6-0, 6-2. Muzamil Murtaza, defeated Abdul Hanan 6-3, 6-2, M Abid beat Imran Bhatti 6-0, 6-4, Shehzad Khan outclassed Huzaifa Khan 6-1, 6-1, Mudassar Murtaza trounced Saqib Hayyat 6-1, 6-1, Faizan Khurram outsmarted 6-1, 6-4, Yousaf Khalil beat Waqas Malik 6-3, 7-6(5) and M Shoaib toppled Barkat Ullah 6-1, 6-2. 
In the ladies singles second round, Sara Mehboob Khan made a good comeback to national tennis circuit by thrashing Fajar Masood 6-0, 6-0, Mehak Khokar got walk over against Ashtafila Arif, Rahat Javed beat Kainat Ali 6-1, 6-1, Noor Saad beat Nida Akram 6-0, 6-1 and Asfa Shahbaz routed Mariyam Mirza 6-1, 6-1. 
In boys U-18 first round, Faizan Fayyaz beat Waqas Aslam 6-0, 6-1, Hasheesh Kumar beat Hassam Khan 6-1, 6-2, Abdullah Adnan beat Abdul Hanan Khan 6-1, 6-4, Mahatir Muhammad beat Haider Ali Rizwan 6-2, 6-2, Bakir Ali beat Husnain Ali 6-0, 6-0, Semi Zeb beat Arman Kamran 6-2, 6-0 and Ahmad Nael beat Ibrahim Suleman 6-0, 6-0. In U-14 second round, Hamza Ali Rizwan beat Abdullah Pirzada 4-0, 4-1, Hussnain Ali Rizwan beat Zohaib Afzal Malik 4-0, 4-1 and Nabeel Ali Qayyum beat Hashir Alam 4-1, 4-2. In U-12 first round, Afaf Suleman beat Shafy Iqbal 4-1, 4-1 and M Umar beat Zunaisha Noor 4-1, 4-2.