June 26, 2006	Monday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 29, 1427

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KARACHI, June 25: Eman Malik overcame heat and opponents to register two wins in the 16th Talent Hunt Sindh ranking tennis tournament at the CDGK sports complex on Sunday.

She proved too good for Sammer Essa by inflicting straight 6-0, 6-0 defeat to cruise into second round of women’s singles. Later playing her second match, she was home against Mariyam by the identical score line in the girls U-17 singles.

Yasir, youngest of the Khan clan, downed Abbas Raza 6-3, 6-1 to make his way into the next round. He got a bye in the first round.

Top seed Zuhair Raza, fourth seed Abdul Rehman and Anas Yosuf Zai were through to the last four in the boys U-15 singles.

Talented Khwaja Hamza and Shehryar Ahmed qualified to meet each other in the boys U-11 final by winning their pro-set matches.

Results:

Juniors U-17 singles (second round): Asif Bachani (Hyd) bt Ahad Hassan Khan 6-7, 6-2, 7-5. (Pre-quarterfinals): Abbas Raza bt Asif Bachani (Hyd) 5-0; Anas Yosuf Zai (Hyd) bt Sarmad Munir (Hyd) 6-2, 6-1.

Boys U-15 singles (quarterfinals): Zuhair Raza bt Hasham 2-6, 6-1, 6-0; Abdul Rehman bt Nameer Shamsi 6-2, 2-0 (retd); Anas Yosuf Zai (Hyd) w/o Abu Baker.

Boys U-13 singles (quarterfinals): M. Zubaid Gul (Hyd) bt Arif Khan 6-2, 6-3.

Women’s singles (first round): Eman Malik bt Sammer Essa 6-0, 6-0; Anam Saeed bt Sundas Tanveer 6-1, 6-1.

Girls U-17 singles (first round): Eman Malik bt Mariyam 6-0, 6-0; Alia Hai bt Amal Faisal 6-2, 6-2; Mahak Tanveer bt Anam Mahmood 6-2, 6-3.

Men’s singles (second round): Yasir Khan bt S. Abbas Raza 6-3, 6-1; Rafi Darbari bt Mustafa Jamal 6-1, 6-3; Noaman Farid bt Kashif Pirozani 6-0, 6-0.

Boys U-11 singles (semifinals): Khwaja Hamza bt Arif Khan 8-2; Shehryar Ahmed bt Ehsan Shahid 8-4.

Monday’s fixtures:

Boys U-15, U-17 singles (9.00am); boys U-15, U-17 doubles (12.00noon); girls, women’s, men’s singles (3.30pm).