KARACHI, Jan 2 Mustafa Zaidi and Basit Gabol survived a scare against their respective opponents on way to reaching the next round in men`s singles of the Sindh ranking tennis championship at the Southend Club courts on Friday.

Mustafa, after conceding the opener struggled to carve out a 6-7, 6-3, 6-1 victory over Omer Shahid Maniya while Basit sweat for over three hours to post 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 victory over Abdullah Khan.

Results

Men`s singles (first round)

Asim Khan bt M. Essa Jee 6-3, 7-6; Bilal Sharrif bt M. Z. Khattak 6-3, 6-0; Syed Zuhair Raza bt Omer Jahangir (Quetta) 6-0, 6-2; Omer Usman bt Mohib Alvi 6-2, 6-3; Basit Gabol bt Abdullah Khan 7-5, 3-6, 7-6; Mustafa Zaidi bt Omer Shahid Maniya 6-7, 6-3, 6-1; Fahim Ramzan bt M. Ali Zubair 6-1, 6-0; Abdul Rehman bt Sikander Hayat Khan 6-2, 6-3; Syed Abbas Raza bt Waqas Abid 6-1, 6-0.

Boys`U-13 singles (first round)

Usman Shabbir bt Hunny Das 8-3; Ahsan Ismail bt Haresh Das 8-5; Sheryar Hasnain bt Roman Dhadi 8-1; Ali Qureshi bt Zaki Niazi 9-7.

Boys U-9 (round robin)

Kanishkan (Sri Lanka) bt Nabit Bajwa 8-5.

Saturday`s fixtures

Juniors U-17 singles (second round) 9.00am; boys U-15 singles (second round) 11.00am; men`s singles (first round/second round) 12.00 noon.