KARACHI, Jan 3: Experienced Nomi Qamar gave a lesson to Shayan Najam as he breezed past 6-1, 6-1 to advance into the men’s singles last eight of the Sindh ranking tennis championship at Southend Club on Saturday.

Davis Cupper and second seed Nomi, who got a first round bye, now faces the winner of Ali Imran and Abdul Rehman.

The other seeded players - Jalil Khan, Yasir Khan and Nasir Mushtaq - who too got a bye in the first round open their campaign on Sunday.

Top seed Syed Zuhair Raza proved too good for Adil Kohari as he notched up 6-1, 6-1 victory to enter juniors’ U-17 singles next round.

Another up and coming Nameer Shamsi had a double success in juniors U-17 and boys U-15 singles. His victim in juniors was Mikeel Asad who went down 1-6, 0-6 while he handed out 6-1, 6-1 defeat to Ali Hussain in boys U-15.

Results:

Men’s singles (first round):

Naresh Das bt Malik Mahmood 6-1, 6-2; Asadullah bt Fahad Anwer 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.

Second Round:

Nomi Qamar bt Shayan Najam 6-1, 6-1.

Juniors U-17 singles (second round):

Syed Zuhair Raza bt Adil Kohari 6-1, 6-1; Nameer Shamsi bt Mikeel Asad 6-1, 6-0; Rahmat Ali bt Murtazain 6-3, 1-6, 6-4; Husain Aziz bt Farhan Mustafa 6-4, 6-4; Mustafa Zaidi bt Omer Usman 6-2, 6-1; Yahya Essa bt Rayyan 6-2, 6-1; Omer Shahid bt Saadur Rehman 6-1, 6-1.

Boys U-15 (second round):

Azher Qureshi bt Hamza Tanveer 6-2, 6-2; Talha Zubair bt Roman Zahidi 6-0, 6-0; Nameer Shamsi bt Ali Hussain 6-1, 6-1.

Boys U-9 (round robin):

Abdul Moiz Tariq bt Kanishkan (Sri Lanka) 8-6.

Sunday’s fixtures:

Boys U-15 singles 9.00am; juniors’ doubles 10.00am; men’s singles 11.00 am; men’s doubles 1.00pm.

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