KARACHI, Jan 1: Local player Adil Kohari walked away with two victories in the juniors U-17 and boys U-15 singles on the opening day of the Sindh Open ranking tennis championship which commenced at Southend Club on Thursday.

In the juniors U-17 Adil posted 6-2, 7-5 victory over Saad Yousuf while he had a cakewalk over Adeel Zulfiqar 6-1, 6-1 in the boys U-15. The two triumphs have put him into the next round.

Making his appearance in a domestic event after a long layoff, top seed Syed Zuhair Raza was home 6-0, 6-0 against Sameer Tayyabaly in the juniors U-17.

Results:

Juniors U-17 singles (first round):

Syed Zuhair Raza bt Sameer Tayyabaly 6-0, 6-0; Adil Kohari bt Saad Yousuf 6-2, 7-5; Mikeel Asad bt Waqas Abid 6-3, 6-4; Nameer Shamsi bt Fraz Ashraf 6-1, 6-3; Rahmat Ali walkover Noorur Rehman; Murtazain bt Mikhail Bawani 6-0, 6-0; Abdul Rehman bt Uzair A. Qadir 6-1, 6-3; Hussain Aziz bt Mustafa Tariq 6-4, 6-1; Farhan Mustafa walkover Haleem Rasheed; Omer Usman bt Hamza Hameed 6-0, 6-0; Yahya Essa bt Basit Gabol 6-3, 6-3; Rayyan bt Ahsan Mehmood 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; Saadur Rehman bt Hassan Ahmed 6-1, 6-0.

Boys U-15 singles (first round):

Adil Kohari bt Adeel Zulfiqar 6-1, 6-1; Daniyal Jaferey bt Sanwal Hussain 7-6, 7-6; Farhan Mustafa bt Saod Shoaib 6-0, 6-1; Talha Zubair bt M. Abbas 4-0,(rtd); Salar Umer walkover Sahib Alvi; Sheryar Ahmed walkover Afzal; Ali Husain bt Shahbaz Fayyaz 7-6, 6-0.

Friday’s fixtures:

Boys U-13 singles 9.00am; men’s singles 11.00am.