KARACHI, June 9: Top seeds Farjad Saif and Ghazala Roohi will be the defending their titles in the 3rd Mirza Almas Ali Baig Masters Cup table tennis tournament to be held here at Islamia Club from June 11 to 14.

The details of the tournament were announced on Monday at a press briefing.

Allied Bank will be the defending champions in both men’s and women’s event for which the organizers are offering Rs.25,000

The men’s teams competing in the tournament according to the ranking of 42nd National Table Tennis Championship at Lahore are ABL, Pak Wapda, HBL, ADBP, Pak PWD, Lahore, Faislabad and Karachi.

The women’s teams participating in the tournament are HBL, Pak Wapda, ABL and Pakistan Army.

Following is the list of top 32 individual man players eligible to participate in the tournament.

Asim Qureshi (ABL), Kashif Razzak (ABL), Bilal Yasin (ADBP), Ali Faisal (Wapda), Farjad Saif (ABL), Yasir Iqbal (HBL), Khurram Rasheed (ABL), Saleem Abbas (Wapda), Sajid Hussain (Wapda), Jehangir (Lahore), Mehboob Elahi (ADBP), Adnan Mushtaq (Wapda), Owais Mukhtar (Lahore), Masood Hussain (Wapda), Asim Aziz (HBL), Shahzad Waseem (ABL), M. Farooq (RWP), Kh Kashif (Karachi), Arshad Taskeen (BWP), Asim Muneer (Faislabad), M. Iqbal (Faislabad), Arif Siddiqui (HAZ), Shahzad Razzaq (ABL), Faisal Ghori (Faislabad), Asim Hussain (Karachi), Rizwan (HAZ), Tariq Aziz (RWP), Ayaz Leghari (Karachi), Farooq Ahmed (Multan), Ashfaquddin (Karachi), Sahahid Saif (MPK), Nadir Sohail (PWD).

List of 16 woman players eligible to participate in the Master’s Cup is as follows:

Ghazala Roohi (ABL), Rahila Anjum (ABL), Shama Naz (HBL), Naila Anjum (ABL), Shabnam Bilal (HBL), Asia Iqram (Wapda), Shabnam Yasmeen (Wapda), Tayyaba Gill (Wapda), Loiza Irshad (Wapda), Naureen Tehseen (PWD), Rizwana Saleem (ABL), Mehtab Alam (Army), Ayesha Iqbal (Lahore), Seemab Alam (Army), Maria Jameel (Multan) and Sania Qaiser (HBL).

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