KARACHI, Jan 4: Top seeds Jalil Khan, Yasir Khan and Nasir Mushtaq had a smooth sailing over their opponents to reach men’s singles pre quarter-finals in the Sindh ranking tennis championship at Southend Club on Sunday.

Top seed Jalil edged past Asim Khan 6-3, 6-2 to set up a meeting with Abbas Raza who drubbed Bilal Sharif 6-0, 6-0. Third seed Yasir carved out a 6-3, 6-3 victory over Omer Usman while fourth seed Nasir got the better of Noufal bin Veqar 6-0, 6-1.

Second seed Nomi Qamar

has already made it to the last 16 the other day.

According to the organisers, this is the first time in recent years that they have received encouraging response in the men’s singles which has a draw of 64.

Results:

Men’s singles

Second round: Jalil Khan bt Asim Khan 6-3, 6-2; Abbas Raza bt Bilal Sharrif 6-0, 6-0; Zuhair Raza bt Talha Saeed – walkover; Vinod Das bt Khalid Ahmed (Larkana) 6-1, 6-0; Nasir Mushtaq bt Noufal Bin Veqar 6-0, 6-1; Mohammed Nasim bt Adil Tanoli 6-0, 6-1; Naresh Das bt Shamael 6-4, 6-4; Mohammad Abdul Saeed bt Fahad Arshad 6-1, 6-2; Robin Das bt Wasiq – walkover; Hussain Aziz bt Asadullah 6-3, 6-0; Faraz Ahsan bt Adeel Tahir (Quetta) 6-2, 6-3; Yasir Khan bt Omer Usman 6-3, 6-3; Danish Ahmed bt Basit Gabol 7-6, 6-2; Mustafa Zaidi

bt Fahim Ramzan 7-5, 6-3; Abdul Rehman bt Ali Imran 6-2, 6-2.

Men’s doubles

First round: Tariq and Khalid bt Ali Imran and Ali Mansoor 6-2, 6-3.

Boys U-15 singles:

Second round: Adil Kohari bt Talha Khurram 6-0, 6-1; Daniyal Jafery bt Maaz bin Veqar 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; Farhan Mustafa bt Sheryar Hasnain 6-1, 6-1; Uzair A. Qadir bt Salar Umar 6-0, 6-1.

Boys/girls U-13 singles:

Second round: Talha Zubair bt Adeel Zulfiqar 8-0; Sarwan Memon bt Rajan 8-2, Ammad Ali bt Usman Shabbir 8-3; Maheen Dada bt Ahsan Ismail 8-2; Shaharyar Hasnain bt Talha Khurram 8-0; Muaz Tariq bt Siroz 9-7; Saud Shoaib bt Ali Qureshi 8-1.

Monday’s fixtures:

Juniors U-17 singles, boys U-13 singles 9.00 am; men singles 10.00am; ladies singles 2.00pm; men’s doubles 1.30pm; juniors doubles 3.00pm.