ISLAMABAD: The National Ranking Tennis Championship began at the PTF Complex on Saturday.

Unseeded Hamza Abjad made the major upset in the boys’ under-18 singles main draw when he eliminated seventh seed Hamza Bin Asif 6-3, 6-2.

All winners moved to the next round after winning their respective matches.

Earlier, PTF president Kaleem Imam and vice president Sultan Maqsood inaugurated the event.

Results: Men’s singles qualifying:

First round: Talah Bin Asif bt M. Waleed Khan 8-1; Kashan-ul-Haq bt Hamza Abjad 8-6; Omer Maniya bt M. Naveed Zafar 8-0; Ikramullah bt Arslan Altaf 8-1; Hammad Ahmad bt Hashim Khan 8-5; Ali Khalid bt Hasnain 8-7.

Second round: M. Waqas Malik bt Shaheer Israr 8-3; Talah Bin Asif bt Rizwan Ahmed 8-2; Malik Hamza bt Kashan-ul- Haq 8-4; Danish Ahmed bt Adnan Amir 8-1; Talah Zubair bt Rafay Butt 8-0; Mohammad Ahmad bt Hassan Malik 8-7; Omer Maniya bt Ali Murad 8-2; Imad Amir bt Ikramullah 8-4; Arham Atique bt Ahmed Murad 8-4; Yawar Abbas bt Mohammad Rehan 8-2; Asjad Aitzaz bt Moeez Butt 8-0; Aman Attique bt Farhad Ali Raja 8-5; Abdal Haider bt Hammad Ahmad 8-4; Aqeel Sarfaraz bt Shafae Bagri 8-5; Haseeb Yaqoob bt Ali Khalid 8-0; Asad Abdul Shakoor bt Mahboob Khan 8-6.

Final qualifying round: Talah Zubair bt Mohammad Ahmed 8-3; Aman Attique bt Asjad Aitzaz 8-4; Abdul Haider bt Aqeel Sarfraz 8-1; Talha Bin Asif bt Waqas Malik 8-5; Omer Maniya bt Imad Amir 8-2; Haseeb Yaqoob bt Asad Abdul Shakoor 8-2; Yawar Abbas bt Arham Atiq 8-6; Malik Hamza bt Ahmed Danish 8-2.

Boys U-18 singles qualifying:

Saad Abjad bt M. Abdullah Baig 8-2; Saifullah Khalid bt Mouhid Sadan 8-5;

Boys U-18 singles main draw:

First round: Nofil Kaleem walkover against Mohammad Bin Azhar; Ali Khalid walkover against Ghasnavi Uzair Ali; Saad Abjad bt Shafe Bagri 6-2, 7-6(2); Aman Atiq Khan bt Lohya Bilal Imran 6-3, 6-2; M. Muzamil bt Rohail Zain 6-4, 6-4; Husnain bt M. Mohammad Wamiq 6-2, 6-3; Hamza Abjad bt Hamza Bin Asif 6-3, 6-2; Arham Attique bt Khazir Imran 6-0, 6-0; Yawar Abbas bt Amin Shafi 6-2, 6-0; Talha Zubair bt Saifullah Khalid 6-2, 6-0; Hasnain Manzoor bt Aftab Nauman 6-2, 6-2; Talha Bin Asif bt Huzaifa Abdul Rehman 6-1, 6-2; Abdal Haider bt Ehtesham Ahmed 6-0, 6-2; Sahibzada M. Ali bt Hashim Khan 4-6, 6-0, 6-0; M. Mudasir bt Shaheer Israr 6-2, 6-2.

Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2014