Shamim and Sadia storm into final

Published August 13, 2003

KARACHI, Aug 12: Sadia and Shamim reached in women’s single final of 17 Tele Card Inter-departmental All Pakistan table tennis tournament at Islamia Club on Monday night defeating Ghalia Khursheed and Naureen Tehsin.

Ghalia Khursheed and Hina Mehmood secured their berths in girls singles final overcoming Bushra Ahzaz and Ayesha Khan.

CDGK, PSO (Blues),. Nexux and TCP (Blue) qualified for the semifinal overwhelming PSO (Yellow), ICI (I), TCP (Green) and TCP Blue in the quarterfinals.

Men’s singles quarterfinals were also decided. Asim Aziz (HBL), Khawja Kashif (Wapda), Mohammed Khalid (PWD) and Adnan Mushtaq (Wapda) advanced to the last four stage after defeating Nehal Essa, Ayaz Leghari, Nadir Sohail and Khawar Mehmood.

The finals will be played Wednesday.

Results:

Women single semifinals: Sadia Yasin bt Ghalia Khursheed 11-4,11-9,11-5,11-5. Samia Shamim bt Naureen Tehseen 12-10, 11-9, 11-5, 11-3.

Boys singles semifinals: Asad Omer bt Fazal Ahmed 11-7,11-9,11-6; Ayaz Ahmed bt Omer Jalil 11-8,14-12,11-6.

Girls single semifinals: Ghalia Khursheed bt Bushra Ahzaz 11-6,11-7,11-5; Hina Mehmood bt Ayesha Khan 11-5,11-4, 11-3

Men’s singles quarterfnals: Asim Aziz bt Nehal Essa 11-2, 11-8, 11-4, 9-11, 10-12, 11-9, Khawaja Kashif bt Ayaz Laghari 11-9,11-8,12-10,12-6.—PPI

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