KARACHI: Talented Hasan Farooq shocked his own coach Vinod Das in a super tie-breaker to sail into the last four stage of the Anti Tobacco Day Tennis Tournament at the Karachi Club hard courts here on Wednesday.

The 15-year-old Hasan played some superb stroke and forceful winners to overpower Vinod after a gruelling two-hour contest.

Vinod battled hard in the opening set to win 7-5 with some brilliant shot all around the courts but Hasan came back strongly to win the second set with an identical shoreline of 7-5. Vinod then produced another quality game to level the score and set an exciting finish in a super tie-breaker.

Both Hasan and Vinod played neck to neck before two forceful winners helped the former to seize a place in the semi-finals.

Top seed Yasir Khan, his brother Jalil Khan and veteran Nomi Qamar also advanced into the last four stage with comfortable victories.

Meanwhile, Hasan Farooq also moved into the quarter-finals of Junior Under-18 singles with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Ajay Lal.

Results: Men’s singles quarter-finals: Yasir Khan bt Robin Das 6-0, 6-1, Nomi Qamar bt Aqeel Shabbir 6-0, 6-1, Hasan Farooq bt Vinod Das 5-7, 7-5, 10-8, Jalil Khan bt Zaid Noor 6-0, 6-2.

Juniors U-18 singles (2nd round): Talha Zabair bt Nauman Aftab 6-3, 6-1, Aqeel Shabbir bt Taha Bande Ali 6-1, 4-1 Rtd, Murad Khan bt Shehartar Chamdia 6-4, 4-3 Rtd,

Sahibzada M.Ali bt Shabbir 6-1, 6-2, Marid Malik bt Amin Shafi 6-0, 7-5, Nazif Ahmed bt Bilal Imran 6-3, 6-1, Saad Muhamad Ali bt Yawar Abbas 6-4, 7-6 (7-3), Hasan Farooq bt Ajay Lal 6-1, 7-5.

Boys U-14 (2nd round): Nauman Aftab bt Aftab Ali 6-2, 6-3, Rayyan Imran bt Mujahiddullah 6-0, 6-2, Shazil Malik bt Abdulah Khan 6-3, 6-0, Fahad Haider bt Mustfa Faisal 6-0, 6-2, Ebad Ahmed bt Abdullah Ahmedani 6-2, 6-0, Rayyan Jawad bt Summit 6-2, 6-3, Muhamad Ahmed bt Ibrahim Khan 6-0, 6-0, Amin Shafi bt Sameer 6-1, 6-0.

Published in Dawn, May 29th, 2014