ISLAMABAD: The main draw of Syed Tajammul Abbas ITF Pakistan World Junior Ranking Tennis Championships will start here at the Syed Dilawar Abbas PTF Tennis Complex from Monday.

International players from Taiwan, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Kuwait, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey and US reached Islamabad and personally signed in with chief referee of the tournament for their participation in the championship.

In the boy’s event, 22 players signed in whereas two players entered as special exemption, three received wild card entry and four have entered as qualifiers after winning their matches in the qualifying round and one player entered as the lucky loser.

A draw of 32 of boys and girls singles were made by Mohammad Arif Qureshi after the closing time of 6:00pm on Sunday. As per international rankings Pakistan’s Huzafia Abdul Rehman is the top seed in the event whereas his compatriot Nauman Aftab is second seed.

In the girls event 19 players are competing with the eight seeded players being Toglukdemir Mina of Turkey, Russia’s Alioussef Rosaleen, Mert Aysegul of Turkey, the Philippines’ Acena Bea Francesca and Acena Renee Marie, Asim Zoha of Pakistan, Sri Lanka’s Kurera Anjalika and Lin Li Hsin of Taiwan.

Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2019