KARACHI, Sept 7: The Sindh ranking tennis championship commenced at the Karachi Gymkhana on Saturday.

Results:

Men’s singles:

Qualifying round: Abdullah Khan bt Mohammad Taimoor 6-1, 6-1; Sufyan Shiwani bt Shoaib Abbas 6-4, 6-4.

First round: Malik Hamza bt M. Danish Ramzan 6-0, 6-1; Abdul Rehman bt Salman Butt 6-2, 6-2; Zuhair Raza bt Sherbaz Malik (walkover); Nomi Qamer bt Nazif Ahmed 6-0, 6-2; Jalil Khan bt Vinod Das 6-3, 6-1; Khalid Ali Nazar bt Dawar Rehan 7-5, 1-0 (retired); Sikander Hayat bt Changez Hasan 7-5, 7-5.

Under-15 singles:

First round: Shabbir Mohammad bt Ebad Ahmed 6-3, 6-4; Zubair Raja bt Umair Tariq 7-5, 5-7, 10-8; Sahibzada M. Ali bt Sameer Shehzad 6-1, 6-0; Hasan Farooq bt Ameer Hamza 6-0, 6-0.

Under-13 singles:

First round: Nouman Aftab bt Parbat Kumar 6-3, 6-2; Rayyan Aftab bt Daniyal Mujtaba 6-1, 6-0; Osama Khan bt Jahanziab Rajput 6-1, 6-3.—Sports Correspondent

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