KARACHI: Bay View Academy-I won a thrilling doubles match against Karachi American School (KAS) to advance to the semi-finals of the U-15 category in the NBP Inter-school Team Tennis Cup here on Sunday.

Bayview’s Omar and Farzan played some great shots and showed brilliant teamwork to thwart the KAS duo of Taimur and Tayyab in a tie-break at the Karachi Gymkhana club in the event organised by Perfect Strokes.

The semi-finals of the tournament will be held next Saturday with the finals a day later.

Results:

Under-15:

Karachi Grammar School (KGS) bt CAS-II 3-0: Mohammad Dada (KGS) bt Zain (CAS) 11-3; Khinza Ghanchi (KGS) bt Qasim (CAS) 15-14 (9-7); Amin/Dada (KGS) bt Zain/Ebad (CAS) 11-1.

Bay View Academy-I bt Karachi American School (KAS) 3-0: Farzan (Bay View) bt Taimur (KAS) 11-6; Hania (Bay View) bt Tayyab (KAS) 11-9; Omar/Farzan (Bay View) bt Tayyab/Taimoor 12-11 (12-10).

Foundation Public (FPS) bt BVS Paris School 3-0: Bilal (FPS) bt Saadan Ashraf (BVS) 11-2; Yahya (FPS) bt Immad (BVS) 4-0—retired; Ahmed/Yahya (FPS) bt Mohammad Ali/Saadan (BVS) 11-0.

CAS-I bt Bay View Academy-II 3-0: Raayan (CAS) bt Abdullah (Bay View) 11-3; Ibrahim (CAS) bt Taimoor (Bay View) 11-6; Raayan/Ibrahim (CAS) bt Abdullah/Taimoor (Bay View) 11-6.

Age group 16-18:

Nixor College bt Bay View Steeds-I 2-1: Saud (Nixor) bt Aleem (Bay View Steeds) 11-1; Rafay (Bay View Steed) bt Saifullah 11-6; Saud/Saifullah (Nixor) bt Rafay/Shehryar (Bay View Steeds) 11-3.

Foundation Public (FPS) bt Education Bay 3-0: Ibrahim (FPS) bt Ibrahim (Education Bay) 11-0; Khizer (FPS) bt Mohammad Yasir (Education Bay) 11-0; Saad/Ibrahim(FPS) beat Ibrahim/Yasir (Education Bay) 11-0.

KGS-I bt Bay View High 3-0: Maheen Dada (KGS) bt Raayan (Bay View High) 11-8; Talha (KGS) bt Zuhair (Bay View High) 11-1; Bay View High given w/o in doubles.

KGS-II bt Lyceum- I 3-0: Sameer (KGS) bt Daniel (Lyceum) 11-3; Nasrullah (KGS) bt Zorays (Lyceum) 11-3; Sameer/Nasrullah (KGS) bt Faizan/Danial 11-6.

Published in Dawn, February 16th, 2015

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