LAHORE: As many as 23 matches including the pre-quarterfinals and quarter finals were decided in the Gobi’s Paints Punjab Open Tennis Championship at the Punjab Tennis Academy, Bagh-i-Jinnah here on Wednesday.

Results:

Men’s singles (pre-quarterfinals): Shaeel Durab beat Bilal Farooq 8-6; Ahmad Kamil beat Zeeshan Ashraf 8-2;Faizan Fayyaz Khan beat Mujtaba Shahbaz Khan 8-3; M. Abid beat Saif Ali 8-4; Bilal Asim beat Aqeel Sarfraz 8-3; Imran Bhatti beat Rana Humayun 8-3; Farman Shahkeel beat Dr. Nufaid 8-2; Heera Ashiq beat Tanvir Munir 8-1.

Men’s Doubles (quarterfinals): Heera Ashiq / Ahmad Babar beat Dr.Nufaid / 6-1,6-2; Omer Babar / Khurram Nazir beat Hassan Riaz / Faizan Fayyaz 6-3,6-4; Imran Bhatti /Tariq Sadiq beat Yousaf / Faiz Rasool 6-2,6-3; M.Abid / Talha Waheed beat Zeeshan Ashraf /Hamza Jawad 6-1,6-1.

U-18 quarterfinals: Farman Shakeel beat Shakeel Durab 6-3,6-3; Bilal Asim beat Shehryar Anees 6-0, 6-4; Hamza Jawad beat Zaeem Ghafoor 6-0,6-3;Faizan Fayyaz beat Asad Zaman 6-1,6-3;

U-14 pre-quarterfinals: Asad Zaman beat Salman Shehzad 6-0; Abu Bakar Khalil beat Abdul Ahad 6-1; Ameer Mazari beat Harris Bajwa 6-1; Zohaib Afzal Malik beat Raja Mustafa 6-2; Eesa Bilal beat Maya Lone 6-3; Ismail Ahmad beat Ismail Aftab 6-0; Haniya Minhas beat Moavia Butt 6-0.

Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2021