KARACHI, Dec 30: Internationals Louiza Irshad and Sanam Arzoo of Wapda claimed the women’s doubles title to earn a double crown on the penultimate day of the 43rd National table tennis championship at the Islamia Club on Friday.

The duo, after guiding their team to triumph in the women’s team event, performed splendidly and got the better of compatriots Asia-Ayesha in five sets. The scores were 11-6, 10-12, 11-4, 6-11, 11-7.

This is the third title won by Wapda after they had lifted the men’s and women’s team events for the first time.

Habib Bank also picked up two titles of men’s doubles and mixed doubles. The pair of Asim-Yasir, after losing the first two sets, recovered to beat Wapda’s Saleem-Faisal in a five-set encounter. The score being 7-11, 8-11, 13-11, 12-10, 11-5.

Yasir also went on to annex doubles crown as partnering with Ghalia Khurshid the pair accounted for Saleem-Sanam 11-9, 11-7, 11-4 to lift the mixed doubles crown. Ghalia has already reached the women’s singles final.

Ali Faisal and Saleem Abbas, both of Wapda, set a date to meet each other in the men’s singles final after registering convincing victories over their opponents.

While Ali got the better of Sindh’s Khawaja Kashif 13-11, 11-9, 11-7, 3-11, 12-10 Abbas brushed aside Ahmed Hussain 11-3, 11-8, 11-1, 11-4.

Ahmed Hussain secured the bronze defeating Khawaja Kashif in the play-off 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 8-11, 12-10, 10-12, 11-8.

The organisers flouted the ITTF rules by allowing the men’s singles play-off to be contested for best of seven sets.

Only the other day, they stopped the women’s singles play-off after five sets on the pretext to follow ITTF rules.

Results:

Men’s singles (quarterfinals): Ali Faisal bt Jahangir Khan 11-6, 11-9, 11-8, 11-2; Saleem Abbas bt Asim Aziz 11-2, 11-5, 11-8, 11-4; Khawaja Kashif bt Owais 11-5, 11-8, 11-8, 11-5; Ahmed Hussain bt Awais Mukhtar 11-6, 11-8, 6-11, 12-10, 11-8.

Men’s singles (semifinals): Ali Faisal bt Khawaja Kashif 13-11, 11-9, 11-7, 3-11, 12-10; Saleem Abbas bt Ahmed Hussain 11-3, 11-8, 11-1, 1-4.

Play-off for 3rd position: Ahmed Hussain bt Khawaja Kashif 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 8-11, 12-10, 10-12, 11-8.

Men’s doubles (quarterfinals): Jahangir-Faryal bt Asim-Shujaat 11-3, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7; Saleem-Faisal bt Khalid-Asif 11-6, 11-9, 14-12; Owais-Bilal bt Atta-Kashif 3-11, 11-5, 11-4, 12-10; Asim-Yasir bt Yayha-Owais 11-6, 12-10, 11-5.

Men’s doubles (semifinals): Asim-Yasir bt Jahangir-Faryal 2-11, 11-5, 1-7, 11-7; Saleem-Faisal bt Owais-Bilal 11-5, 11-7, 11-8.

Men’s doubles (final): Asim-Yasir bt Saleem-Faisal 7-11, 8-11, 13-11, 12-10, 11-5.

Play-off for 3rd position: Owais-Bilal bt Jahangir-Faryal 11-6, 11-2, 13-11.

Women’s doubles (quarterfinals): Louiza-Sanam bt Rabia-Tanzila 11-8, 12-10, 11-4; Ghalia-Sadia bt Shahida-Najia 11-7, 11-8, 11-8; Sadia-Shabnam bt Noreen-Hina 5-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-6; Asia-Ayesha bt Sidra-Urva 11-4, 12-10, 14-12.

Women’s doubles (semifinals): Louiza-Sanam bt GHalia-Sadia 11-9, 11-8, 5-11, 11-8; Asia-Ayesha bt Sadia-Shabnam 7-1, 11-8, 11-9, 11-6.

Women’s doubles (final): Louiza-Sanam bt Asia-Ayesha 11-6, 10-12, 11-4, 6-11, 11-7.

Play-off for 3rd position: Ghalia-Sadia bt Sadia-Shabnam 8-11, 11-4, 13-11, 11-9.

Mixed doubles (quarterfinals): Ali Faisal-Louiza bt Sadia-Bilal 11-7, 11-4, 11-9; Saleem-Sanam bt Faryal-Ayesha 13-11, 11-7, 11-9; Asim-Sadia bt Shujaat-Sidra 11-8, 11-8, 5-11, 9-11, 11-9; Yasir-Ghalia bt Owais-Sidra 11-5, 11-2, 11-6.

Mixed doubles (semifinals): Saleem-Sanam bt Asim-Sadia 9-11, 11-3, 11-5, 11-5; Yasir-Ghalia bt Faisal-Louiza 13-11, 9-11, 8-11, 11-5, 11-9.

Mixed doubles (final): Yasir-Ghalia bt Saleem-Sanam 11-9, 11-7, 11-4.

Play-off for 3rd position: Faisal-Louiza bt Asim-Sadia 11-9, 8-11,12-10, 10-12, 11-9.

Saturday’s fixtures:

Women’s singles final at 5.00pm

Men’s singles final at 6.00pm.