January 29, 2003	Wednesday	Ziqa’ad 25,1423

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KARACHI, Jan 28: S.M. Naeem had to be at his best to overcome a dogged Jehangir Rashid in three sets 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 to enter the final of the Under-14 Westbury Open tennis championship played at Modern Club on Tuesday.

In a hotly contested encounter Naeem having won the first set lost the second and then rallied to clinch the deciding final set not before stretched to the limit by his battling opponent.

Ghulam Abbas was the other player to advance to the final when he demolished Ahmed Hassan 6-0, 6-1 in the semifinal of the Under-12 event.

Second seed Abbas also advanced to the next stage of the U-14 after another impressive victory in dumping Umer Khan 6-1. 6-1.

Monday results:

Under-18 second round: Akbar Pataudi bt Mateen Arif 6-0, 6-0; Ali Abadullah bt Shakoor Khan 7-5, 6-4; Amir Ali bt Jahanzaib 6-4, 4-6, 6-4

Under-14 second round: Ali Asgher bt Shehzad Khan 6-0, 6-0; Nasir Mushtaq bt M.Nauman Ali 6-0, 6-1; Syed Zohair walk over Nabeel Ilyas; Mustafa Diwan bt Salman Ahmed 6-0, 7-5; Mateen Arif bt Hassan Ahmed 7-5, 4-6, 7-6; Jahangir Rashid walk over Dawood Saeed; Gulam Abbas bt Umer Khan 6-1, 6-1

Tuesday results:

Under-12 semifinal: Ghulam Abbas bt Ahmed Hassan 6-0, 6-1

Under-14 Quarterfinal: Mateen Arif bt Ali Asgher 7-6, 6-4; Nasir Mushtaq bt Syed Zubair 6-0, 6-1

Under-14 semifinal S.M.Naeem bt Jehangir Rashid 6-4, 7-6

Under-18 quarterfinal Danish Ahmed bt Hammad 6-4, 6-2.

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