Tennis: Double success for Nasir

Published February 13, 2006

KARACHI, Feb 12: Living up to his billing, top seed Nasir Mushtaq advanced to the next round of juniors U-17 singles in the Open tennis championship at Karachi Gymkhana on Sunday.

He was in a punishing mood and outplayed his opponent Azeem straight 6-0, 6-0 to register his win.

Nasir also cruised into the next stage of men’s singles after he chalked up 7-6, 3-0 victory over Gul Hameed who was compelled to retire following knee injury in the second set.

Fourth seed Nomi Qamar also had an easy 6-1, 6-1 sailing over Robin Das to enter the third round.

Rizwan Shamsi and Khalid Ali Nazar were also through to the next stage of men’s singles.

Results:

Men’s singles: (2nd round):

Nomi Qamar bt Robin Das 6-1, 6-1; Nasir Mushtaq bt Gul Hameed 7-6, 3-0 (retd); Rizwan Shamsi bt Shaheel 6-0, 6-0; Khalid Ali Nazar w/o Hasan.

Boy’s U-17 singles (2nd round):

Nasir Mushtaq bt Azeem 6-0, 6-0; Zohair Raza bt Hasan Ahmed 6-1, 6-3; Abbas Raza bt Hassam 6-1, 6-0; Jehangir Rasheed bt Ahsan Bajwa 6-1, 6-1; Sarmad Munir bt Mehboob 6-2, 7-6; Mateen Arif bt Shaheel 6-3, 6-3; Salman Ahmed bt Rameez 6-4, 7-5; Ghulam Abbas bt Sunny Williams 6-3, 6-4.

Boy’s U-15 singles (2nd round):

Sunny Williams bt Nameer 6-1, 6-1; Zohair Raza bt Abu Baker w/o; Mustafa Jamali bt Omer Shahid 7-6, 6-3; Saadur Rehman bt Ahsan Bajwa 2-6, 6-2, 6-3

Boy’s U-13 singles (quarterfinals):

Adil Kohari bt Azher 6-3, 6-0; Tayyab Imran bt Ahsan 6-3, 6-2; Nameer Shamsi bt Tahir Ali 6-2, 2-6, 6-4; Mustafa Zaidi bt Qambar 6-0, 6-2.

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