ISLAMABAD: A number of promising youngsters moved into the main draw after winning their respective qualifying matches of the Federal Tennis Cup National Ranking Tennis Championships which started here at the PTF Complex on Monday.

Top eight ranked players of the country — including Aqeel Khan, Mohammad Abid, Mohammad Shoaib, Heera Ashiq, Mudassar Murtaza, Yousuf Khalil, Ahmed Chaudhry and Barkatullah — are already in main draw, which starts on Tuesday.

On Monday, Ahmad Kamil, Kamran Khan, Mahatir Mohammad, Mohammad Usman Ejaz, Talha Bin Asif, Abbas Khan, Jabir Ali and Shaheen Mehmood qualified for the main draw of the men’s singles by winning their respective matches on the opening day of the 34th edition of the championships.

A total of 48 matches were decided on the qualifying day. According to the organisers, 20 players were accepted directly into the main draw as per PTF national ranking while four wild card and eight qualifiers completed the draw of 32.

Final qualifying round: Ahmad Kamil bt Faizan Shahid 8-0; Kamran Khan bt Mohammad Bilal 8-6; Mahatir Mohammad bt Ahmed Nael Qureshi 8-3; Mohammad Usman Ejaz bt Mohammad Talha Khan 8-3; Talha Bin Asif bt Hamid Israr 3-2 — retired; Abbas Khan bt Mohammad Zaryab 8-6; Jabir Ali bt Abdul Karim 8-1; Shaheen Mehmood bt Azeem Khan 8-4.

Published in Dawn, December 7th, 2021

Opinion

Editorial

Defining extremism
Updated 18 Mar, 2024

Defining extremism

Redefining extremism may well be the first step to clamping down on advocacy for Palestine.
Climate in focus
18 Mar, 2024

Climate in focus

IN a welcome order by the Supreme Court, the new government has been tasked with providing a report on actions taken...
Growing rabies concern
18 Mar, 2024

Growing rabies concern

DOG-BITE is an old problem in Pakistan. Amid a surfeit of public health challenges, rabies now seems poised to ...
Provincial share
Updated 17 Mar, 2024

Provincial share

PPP has aptly advised Centre to worry about improving its tax collection rather than eying provinces’ share of tax revenues.
X-communication
17 Mar, 2024

X-communication

IT has now been a month since Pakistani authorities decided that the country must be cut off from one of the...
Stateless humanity
17 Mar, 2024

Stateless humanity

THE endless hostility between India and Pakistan has reduced prisoners to mere statistics. Although the two ...