KARACHI, Feb 11: Seeded players had no difficulty in winning their matches on the opening day of the Open tennis championship matches played at Karachi Gymkhana Club on Saturday.

The best match of the day was between Salman Ahmed and Syed Abdullah Asgher which resulted in a victory for the former 6-4, 6-4 in an under-17 singles.

Results:

Mens singles (first round):

Munir Memon bt Abdullah 6-2, 6-2; Nasir Mushtaq bt Salman Ahmed 6-1, 6-1; Gul Hameed bt S.Abbas Raza 6-1, 6-2; Rizwan Shamsi bt Jahangir Rasheed 6-1, 6-3; Ghulam Abbas bt Saad bin Arif 6-3, 6-2; Sheel Aftab bt Asad Qureishi 7-6, 6-2; Musbashir Afridi bt Riaz 6-4, 6-2

Juniors U-17 (first round):

Azeem Khan bt Shoeb Allahwala 6-1, 6-1; Zuhair Raza bt Saadur Rrehman 6-1, 6-1; Ahsan Sharif bt Fahad Mahmood 6-2, 6-4; S.Mahboob Ali bt Yosuf Irfan 6-0, 6-0; Salman Ahmed bt S. Abdullah Asghar 6-4, 6-4; Sunny Williams bt Murtaza Haider 7-6, 6-3.

Boys U-15 (first round):

Zuhair Raza bt Hassan Khan 6-2, 6-1; Omer Shahid bt Sarmad Munir 6-1, 6-1; Mustafa Jamali bt Fahad Mahmood 6-1, 6-0; Ahsan Bajwa bt Munib Khan 6-1, 6-2.

Boys U-13 (first round):

Adil Kohari bt M.Shahrukh 6-0, 6-0; Azher Qureishi bt S.Uzair 6-0, 6-0; Tayyab bt Ali Zubair 6-3, 6-0; Tahir Ali Khan bt Taha Sereng 6-2, 6-0; Nameer Shamsi bt Saad Anis 6-0, 6-1.

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