Aqeel in second round

Published November 23, 2005

LAHORE, Nov 22: Top seed Aqeel Khan of Wapda had an easy sailing to enter the second round of the National grass court tennis championship beating Husnain Ayub in straight sets at the Bagh-i-Jinnah courts on Tuesday.

Aqeel, fresh from a victory in the final of Khyber Cup in Peshawar last week, folded the match after dropping only two points 6-0, 6-2.

The other seeded players including second seed Nomi Qamar, third seed Jalil Khan and fourth seed Shahzad Khan also earned facile victories.

Results (men’s singles):

Aqeel Khan bt Husnain Ayub 6-0, 6-2; Rahman Gull bt Ahmed Ijaz 6-2, 6-0; Imran Shaukat bt Saif Ali 6-3, 6-0; Jehanzaib Khan bt Sheikh Asghar 6-2, 6-0; Tanvir Ashiq bt Taimoor 6-1, 6-1; Inamullah bt Khawaja Bakash 6-4, 6-4; Mehmood Khan bt Muhammad Shahbaz 6-0, 6-0; M Shafiuq bt Tanvir Munir 6-3, 6-3; Arif Feroze bt Saeed-ul-Haq 6-3, 7-5; Wasif Cheema bt Jalil Afridi 6-2, 6-3; Omer Babar bt Heera Ashiq 6-3, 6-1; Shahzad Khan bt Zafar Khan 6-0, 6-0; Jalil Khan bt Milan Tahir 6-2, 6-0; Fahad Ali bt Ali Raza 6-1, 6-3; Humayun Pervaiz bt Abid Ali 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; Fayyaz Khan bt Syed Abbas Raza 6-0, 6-1; Inam Gull bt Muhammad Babar 6-3, 6-1 ; Ahmed Aslam bt Asif Feorze 7-5, 6-2; Khurram Nazir bt Ali Sheikh 6-2, 6-0; Kumail Hasan bt Waqas Malik 6-1, 6-1; Nomi Qamar bt Usama Waheed 6-1, 6-1.

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