KARACHI: Top seed and former Asian under-14 No 1 Nofil Kaleem sent Ebad Sarwar packing to storm into under-16 singles quarter-finals of the Essa Lab Open tennis championship at Karachi Club courts here on Saturday.

The Islamabad-based Nofil, who got a bye in the first round, opened his account while registering a crushing 6-2, 6-0 victory his opponent.

He was joined in the last eight by Hassan Farooq, Dawar Rehan, M. Raza Sawani, Sahibzada Mohammad Ali, and Ilham Khan.

Another top seed Imran Shaukat from Multan cruised into men’s singles quarters by getting the better of Hassan Taj 6-2, 6-0 in second round fixtures. The former got a bye in the first round.

Results:

Under-18 singles:

Second round: Aqeel Shabbir Khan bt S.Yawar Abbas 6-3, 7-6 (8-6); M.Raza Sawani bt Shayan (walkover).

Under-16 singles:

Second round: Nofil Kaleem (Islamabad) bt Ebad Sarwar Hussain 6-2, 6-0; Hassan Farooq bt Mujahid 6-0, 6-0; Dawar Rehan bt Bilal 6-1, 6-0; M. Raza Sawani bt Noman Aftab 7-5, 6-1; Sahabzada Mohammad Ali bt Jalauddin Babar (Mirpurkhas) 6-0, 6-1; Ilham Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Nasrullah 6-0, 6-1.

Under-14 singles:

First round: Rayyan Imran bt Mohammad Dada 6-1, 5-7, 10-8; Jay Kumar bt Ashar Mir (walkover); Kailash bt Zeshan Ali (walkover).

Under-14 singles:

Second round: Ilham Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) bt Atif Nawaz 6-0, 6-1; Jalaluddin Babar bt Nasrullah 6-1, 6-2; Shazil Malik bt Abdullah Khan 6-0. 6-2; Bilal Imran bt M Hamza 6-0, 6-0; Noman Aftab bt Kailash 6-0, 6-1; Sahibzada Mohammad Ali bt Bilal Khan 6-2, 6-1.

Men’s singles:

Second round: Imran Shaukat (Multan) bt Hassan Tai 6-2, 6-0; S. Yawar Abbas bt Abdul Majeed (walkover); Talha Zubair Surmawala bt Salman Butt 6-2, 6-3; Vinod Dad bt Ali Mansoor Zaidi 6-1, 6-3; Shabbir Gul (Hyderabad) bt Faheem Ramzan 6-3, (retired); M Manzar bt Murad Khan 6-3, 6-2; Abdullah Khan bt Nofil Kaleem 0-2 (retired).

Sunday’s fixtures: Matches starts at 10.00am.