November 07, 2007	Wednesday	Shawwal 25, 1428

LAHORE, Nov 6: National champion Aqeel Khan also entered the second round of the ITF Pakistan F3 Circuit tennis championship, at the Cosmopolitan Club courts in Bagh-i-Jinnah on Tuesday.

Aqeel, the sixth seed of the event, laboured for 70 minutes to oust Iranian Mohammed Mohazebina after losing the first set. The score in favour of Aqeel was 4-6, 6-2, 6-2

Mohazebina was on the offensive in the first set and showed more accuracy against defensive Aqeel. But he failed to maintain the speed as Aqeel roared back winning the remaining two sets quite comfortably to move ahead.

Asim Shafik and Jalil Khan, brother of Aqeel had already entered the second round. But Nomi Qamar made exit after losing the first round match to Indian Ashutosh Singh 6-2, 6-3.

The other matches were decided in straight way.

The doubles entered the semi-final stage for which no Pakistani player could qualify after Tanveer Ashiq and Yasir Khan lost the quarter-final to Victor Bogdan-Adam Vejmelka 6-3, 6-3.

Result:

Singles:

Adam Vejmelka bt Mohammadi Jibran 6-3, 6-1; Vivek Shokeen bt Soo Hyun Lim 7-6(6), 6-3; Divij Sharan bt Tanveer Ashiq 7-6 (4), 6-1; Lee hsin Han bt Yu Nai Zheng 6-1, 6-2; Aqeel Khan bt Mohammed Mohazebina 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Ashutosh Singh bt Nomi Qamar 6-2, 6-3.

Doubles:

(quarter-finals): Vivek Shokeen-Ashutosh Singh bt Gleb Alekseenko-Vadim Alekseenko 6-2, 6-2; Chang Huai en bt Lee Hsin Han 6-4, 7-5; Daniel Danilovic-Artem Isaev 7-6)4) retired; Victor Bogdan-Adam Vejmelka bt Tanveer Ashiq-Yasir Khan 1-6, 7-5 (10-4).