November 09, 2007	Friday	Shawwal 27, 1428

KARACHI, Nov 8: Top seed Vinod Das on Thursday became the first player to storm into the men’s singles final when he disposed of M. Naseem 6-4, 6-3 in the 17th Talent Hunt Sindh ranking tennis championship at the CDGK Sports Complex.

He is slated to meet the winner of Robin Das/Jahangir Rasheed for the crown on Saturday at 3.00pm.

Robin and Jahangir made it to the last four ending the pretensions of their opponents.

The former beat Rana Azmatullah 6-0, 6-1 while the latter chalked up 6-4, 6-3 victory over Asadullah in the two quarter-finals.

Mustafa Zaidi ended the winning run of top seed Abdul Rehman by overcoming in three sets to reach the juniors U-17 singles final.

Zaidi, who inflicted 6-2, 6-2 victory over Jahangir Rasheed in quarter-final, was home 6-2, 1-6, 6-4.

Two young lads, Khwaja Hamza and Talha Zubair, will fight for honours in the boys U-11 singles on Friday.

Meanwhile, the organisers have extended the event by two days which will now conclude on Saturday.

Results:

Men’s singles (pre quarter-final) Raza Azmatullah w/o Sikander Hayat; (quarter-finals) Robin Das bt Rana Azmatullah 6-0, 6-1; Jahangir Rasheed bt Asadullah 6-4, 6-3 (semi-final) Vinod Das bt M. Naseem 6-4, 6-3.

Ladies singles (round robin) Uzma Zakaria bt Shermeen 6-3, 6-3.

Girls U-17 singles (round robin) Uzma Zakaria bt Maheen Dada 8-3.

Boys U-13 singles (quarter-finals) Adil Kohari bt Talha Zubair 6-4, 6-4; Nameer Shamsi bt Noorur Rehman 6-0, 6-0.

Juniors U-17 singles (quarter-final) Mustafa Zaidi bt Jahangir Rasheed 6-2, 6-2; (semi-finals) Mustafa Zaidi bt Abdul Rehman 6-2, 1-6, 6-4.

Friday’s fixtures:

Boys U-13 singles (semi-finals) 9.00am; boys U-15 singles (semi-finals) 10.00am; juniors U-17 singles (semi-final), men’s singles (semi-final) 11.00am; boys U-11 singles (final) 12.00noon; boys doubles, ladies singles (final) 3.00pm.—Sports Correspondent