LAHORE - Top seeded players advanced to the second round of the 8th KC Indus Pharma National Seniors and Juniors Tennis Championships being played at Karachi Club.
Total seven players from Lahore, including Abdul Hannan (top seed U-16 singles), Asad Zaman (top seed U-14 singles), Bilal Asim, Zaeem Ghaffor, Zohaib Afzal (top seed U-12 singles), Abdul Rehman (top seed U-10 singles) and Hajra Suhail (second seed U-10 singles), have arrived in Karachi under the leadership of former Davis Cupper and PLTA Secretary Rashid Malik (Tamgha-e-Imtiaz) and had practice sessions.
On the second day of the event, the matches were played in different age group categories. In the men’s singles main first round, Vinod Das beat Adnan Khan 6-3, 6-0, Ahshar Mir beat Baqir Ali (Deherki) 6-1, 6-4, Hussain Godil w/o Nomi Qamar and Aqeel Shabbir beat Zeeshan Vazzer 6-3, 6-4. In the U-18 singles first round, Raahim Veqar beat Muhammad Farooq 3-6, 6-2, 10-8.
In the U-14 singles main round one, Dhuraf Das beat Ahsan Ahmed 4-2, 5-4(5), Aahil Imran beat Bilal Chapra 4-1, 4-0, Shahzer Ali beat Ibrahim Qureshi 4-2, 4-1 and Shees beat Nibras Malik 5-4, 3-4, 4-2. In the men’s doubles first round, Shahab Khan/Adnan Khan beat Mustafa Burny/Ahsan Ahmed 8-4, Farhan Altaf/Saad beat Rizwan/Nasir 8-2, Zubair Raja/Fahad beat Zeeshan/Durrez 8-2 and Ali Imam/Fahad Anwar beat Danish/Sahibzada Mubeen 8-1.