KARACHI: Fida Hussain clinched the men’s wheelchair singles title after beating Imran Siddiqui 6-3 while Ahsan Ahmed beat Taimoor Ansari 6-3, 6-4 in the U-16 singles category to qualify in the third-round of the Essa Lab National Seniors & Juniors Tennis Championship here at the Modern Club on Monday.
Results (first-round):
Boys’ U-18 singles: Aisam Malik bt Bilal Ikram 6-1, 6-4
Boys’ U-16 singles: Ismail Aftab bt Saqlain Moosa 6-0, 6-0
Boys’ U-12 singles: Aman Amir bt Sanan Areejo 4-1, 4-0; Ali Bachani bt Aman Sheikh 4-0, 4-1; Maaz Areejo bt Ayra Akhter 4-0, 4-1; Rohan Das bt Muhammad Ibrahim 4-0, 1-4, 10-4; Abdul Wahab bt Muzammil Babar 5-3, 4-2; Hajra Suhail bt Syed Sufyan 4-0 (retired)
Boys’ U-10 singles: Muazzam Babar bt Umer Zaman 4-0, 4-0; Maaz Areejo bt Hamza Jawwad 4-1, 4-2; Rashid Ali Bachani bt Huzaifa Zahid 4-0, 4-0; Syed Sufyan bt Sanan Areejo 4-0, 4-0
Seniors 45 Plus doubles: Razi Nawab/Muhammad Abdul Saeed bt Amir Mumtaz/Syed Qutub 8-4; Shoaib Anis/Sher Ahmed bt Zia Dost Muhammad/ Kabeer Khan 8-0
Seniors 55 Plus doubles: Zafar hasan/Javed Iqbal bt Shahid Aziz/ Akbar Ali Khan 8-7
U-18 singles (second-round): Raahim Veqar bt Nasir Asif 6-0, 6-0
U-16 singles (second-round): Dhuraf Das bt Ruhab Faisal 6-4, 6-0
U-14 singles (second-round): Mikaeel Ali Baig bt Laraib Shamsi 4-0, 4-1; Dhuraf das bt Samer Kabeer 4-0, 4-0
Men’s singles (second-round): Sheeraz Khan bt Raheel Shabbir 6-3, 1-6, 10-8; Aqeel Shabbir bt Ali Imam 6-1, 6-1; Ibadur Rehman bt Muhammad Ahmed 7-6, 7-6
Men’s singles (pre-quarters): Noor-e-Mustafa bt Zia Dost Muhammad 6-0, 6-0; Muhammad Ali bt Mustafa Tariq 6-2, 6-1.
Published in Dawn, January 11th, 2023
