November 23, 2007	Friday	Ziqa’ad 12, 1428

KARACHI, Nov 22: Shabbir Gul of Hyderabad brushed aside top seed Rizwan Shamsi in a long semi-final, while in a quarter-final match M.A. Saeed eliminated second seed Tahir Gul, forming major upsets on the third day of the ninth PSO KC-Pakistan International Seniors Tennis Championship at Karachi Club on Thursday.

Shabbir displayed his supremacy over his opponent, winning the match 6-3, 6-3 to secure a place in the final.

It seemed seedings were working reversibly when the unseeded M.A. Saeed thrashed second favourite Tahir Gul 6-4, 6-2 to find a place in the last-four.

Results:

35-plus singles (quarter-finals): M.A. Saeed bt Tahir Gul 6-4, 6-2 Rafi Darbari bt Jean Zimmermann (GER) 6-1, 6-2.

35-plus singles (semi-finals): Shabbir Gul bt Rizwan Shamsi 6-3, 6-3.

45-plus singles (quarter-finals): Zafer Hassan bt Hanif Habib 6-2, 6-3 Tahir Gul w/o Bhagwandas w/o.

55-plus singles (first round): Jamil Khan bt Pino (ITA) 6-1, 6-0.

55-plus singles (quarter-final): Mushtaq Ahmed bt Badruddin Fakhri 6-3, 6-1.

45-plus doubles (first round): Altaf Hussain/Idrees Kodvavi bt Azharuddin/Javed 7-6, 6-3. —Agencies