LAHORE; Top seed Aqeel Khan and other ranked players forged ahead as the heavy schedule of the matches was completed on the first day of the 4th Sheheryar Malik Memorial National Grass Court Tennis Championship at the Bagh-i-Jinnah courts here on Tuesday.

Aqeel did not face much resistance from Faizan Khurram as he sailed to win his opening match with the score being 6-2, 6-2. Another Davis Cupper Muhammad Abid also completed a comfortable 6-0, 6-2 win against Shakir Allah and same was the case of upcoming Mudassar Murtaza who toppled A. Haider 6-3, 6-1.

Fourteen matches in Boys U-18 and nine in Boys U-14 were also played, besides 16 held in the men’s senior category.

Punjab Sports Board Director General Adnan Arshad Aulakh inaugurated the championship.

Results:

Men’s singles (first round):

Aqeel Khan beat Faizan Khurram 6-2,6-2; Usman Rafiq beat Faizan Fayyaz 6-0,6-2;

Muhammad Shoaib beat Fayyaz Khan 6-1,6-2; Heera Aashiq beat Saqib Hayat 6-1,6-4; Shehzad Khan beat Imran Bhatti 6-4,6-0; Shed Nofil Kaleem beat Ibrahim Khan 6-3,6-4; Hassan Riaz beat Sikandar Hayat 7-6,7-6; M.Abid beat Shakir Allah 6-0,6-2;

Ahmad Chaudhry beat Subhan bin Salik 6-2, 6-2; Aqib Hayat beat Asadullah 6-3,1-6,6-3;

Ahmad Babar beat Waqas Malik 6-2,6-3; Mudassar Murtaza beat Abdaal Haider 6-3,6-1; Yousaf Kkalil beat Ahmad Kamil 4-6,6-1,6-2; Ajaz Khan beat Ayyaz Khan 6-1,6-1;

Hasheesh Kumar beat Israr Gul 6-1,6-1; Muzamil Murtaza beat Nauman Aftab 6-1,7-5.

Result of boys u-18 1st round:

Muhammad Shoaib beat Ahmed Nael 8-3; Bilal Asim beat Ahtesham Arif 8-5;

Uzair Khan beat Shehryar Anees 8-1; Hamid Israr beat Bakir Ali 9-7; Faizan Fayyaz beat M.Abdullah 8-3; Hamza Rehmat beat Zaeem Ghafoor 8-2 Haider Ali Rizwan beat Zain-ul-Abideen 8-5; Aqib Hayat beat Abdul Hanan Khan 8-4 Hasam Khan beat Saim Danish 8-2; Mahatir Muhammad beat Ibrahim Salman 8-1Nalain Abbas beat Azan Sajid 8-2; Farman Shakeel beat Hassan Ali 8-1; Kamran Khan beat Hamza Jawad 8-5; Hasheesh Kumar beat Asad Zaman 8-2.

Result of U-14 1st round:

Bilal Asim beat Mustansir Ali Khan 4-0,4-0; Hamza Rehmat beat Moavia Butt 4-0,4-0;

Ahtesham Humayun beat Shehryar Aness 5-3,4-1; Haider Ali Rizwan beat Amna Qayyum 4-0,4-0; Abdul Basit beat Arman Kamran 4-1,0-4,11-9; Yashar Tarar beat Ali Jawad 4-1,5-3; Husnain Ali Rizwan beat Waleed Javeed 4-0,4-1; Shehansha beat Abu Bakar Khalil 4-0,4-0; Inam Qadir beat Abdul Ahad 4-0,4-0.

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2020