LAHORE, Nov 26 A total of 40 qualifying round matches were decided in U-19 and U-16 categories of boys on the first day of the National Junior Badminton championship at the New Khan Hall on Wednesday.

As many as 20 matches, all of one-set each, were held in the U-19 categories and remaining in U-16.

The main round for boys and girls will start simultaneously from Thursday.

Results

Boy`s singles U-19 (qualifying round) Hassan Raza (Punjab) bt Umer Shahzad (AJK) 21,11; Nawaz (NWFP) bt Waqar Azim (AJK) 21-6; Inzimam ul Haq (Punjab) bt Aqib (AJK) 21-12; Haroon (NWFP) bt Waleed Jameel (Lahore) 21-4; Usama Zafar (Lahore) bt Arslan (Islamabad) 21-11; Hassan Rehman (NWFP) bt Hafiz Irfan (Gujranwala) 21-14; Salman (NWFP) bt Shujaat Ahmad (Rabwa) 21-19; Tayyab Bashir (Sargodha) bt Fazal Abbas (Rahim Yar Khan) 21-19; Attique ur Rehman (Sargodha) bt Sajjid (Burewala) 21-19; Tahir Khan (NWFP) beat Salman (Islamabad) 21-4; Ghulam Fareed (Faisalabad) bt Junaid (Islamabad) 21-10; Hassan Raza (Lahore) bt Imran (Railway) 21-7; M. Zubair (Rabwa) bt Aoun Abbas (Hafizabad) 21-18; Usama Zafar (Lahore) bt Shabir (Rabwa) 21-17; Salman (NWFP) bt Hassan Raza (Lahore) 21-18; Tahir Khan (NWFP) bt Tayyab Bashir (Sargodha) 21-13; Hassan Rehman (NWFP) bt Ghulam Fareed (Faisalabad) 21-13; M. Zubair (Rabwa) bt Nawaz (NWFP) 21-12; Haroon (NWFP) bt Atiq ur Rehman 21-14; Usama Zafar (Lahore) bt M. Waseem (NWFP) 21-17.

Boy`s singles U-16 (qualifying round) Ali Naved (Lahore) bt Umair (Sahiwal) 21-14; Mozam Ch (Daska) bt Umer (Sahiwal) 21-17; Umer Rasheed (Faisalabad) bt Hamza Saeed (Daska) 21-8; Raza Ali (Faisalabad) bt Awais ur Rehman (Faisalabad) 21-19; Abdul Rehman (Faisalabad) bt Anjum Ch. (Daska) 21-12; M. Wadood Islam (Faisalabad) bt Hamza Malik (Lahore) 21-19; Muhammad Arslan (Sindh) bt Harris Naveed (Faisalabad) 21-15; Ali Raza (Lahore) bt Sajid Hameed (Faisalabad) 21-9; Junaid Farooq (Punjab) bt Ali Naveed (Lahore) 21-15; Shahroz Altaf (Punjab) bt Waseem (NWFP) 21-19; Burhan Yaseen (Lahore) bt Mozam Ch. (Daska) 21-6; Abdul Basit (Lahore) bt Syed Hijaz Ali (Punjab) 21-11; Subhan (Punjab) bt Shahmeer (Punjab) 21-4; Umair Rasheed (Faisalabad) bt Mohtasim 21-16; Muhammad Arslan (Sind) bt Talha Khalid (Punjab) 21-13; Javed Iqbal (Baluchistan) bt Hamza Yaseen (Punjab) 21-11; Abdul Rehman (Faisalabad) bt Inzimam ul Haq (Punjab);M. Wadood Islam (Faisalabad) bt M. Sajjid (Punjab) (walkover).

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