LAHORE The 47th National Table Tennis Championship started at the Wapda Sports Complex here on Tuesday with men's and women's team events taking place.

In all, 150 players are featuring in the event.

The four provinces have been allowed to enter two teams while Islamabad, Habib Bank, Public Works Department (PWD), Railways, Wapda and Army one team apiece.

Wapda is the defending champion of the men's team event while Habib Bank of the women's.

Results (team event)

Men's

Wapda bt AJK 3-0 (Saleem Abbas bt Umair 11-1, 11-4, 11-4; Bilal Yasin bt Waqar Raja 11-5, 11-4, 11-7; Asim Munir bt Farhan Babar 11-4, 11-2, 11-1).

Railway bt OGDC 3-0 (Abdullah bt Rehan Javed 11-4, 11-6, 14-12; Salman Virk bt Nayyer Zaidi 11-6, 11-8, 11-4; Hassan Haider bt Israr Butt 11-7, 11-6, 11-5).

Punjab 'A' bt NWFP 'B' 3-0 (Abdul Rahim bt Sohaib 11-7, 11-9, 12-10; Kashif Razaq bt Imdad Ali 11-6, 11-2, 11-3; Mehboob Ilahi bt Vicky Raza11-3, 11-2, 11-4).

Sindh 'A' bt Balochistan 3-0 (Kamran Sarang bt Sadiq Ali 11-7, 11-6, 11-3; Usman Ahmad bt Kamran Ali 11-3, 11-4, 11-5; Asim Hussain bt Kazim Ali 11-3, 11-3, 11-8).

PWD bt Sindh 'B' 3-0 (Asif Razzaq bt Azeem 11-8, 11-8, 11-5; Nadir Sohail bt Raheel Qurreshi 11-4, 13-11, 11-3; Zulfiqar Ahmad bt Zain Ali 8-11, 14-12, 11-2, 11-5).

Habib Bank bt Army 3-1 (Yasir Iqbal bt Awais Hassan 11-3, 11-5, 12-14, 11-8; Asim Aziz bt Fahim Raza 11-9, 11-13, 11-5, 12-10; Yasir Iqbal bt Fahim Raza11-7, 11-6, 11-5; Ahmad Hussain lost to Umar Zaka 11-5, 7-11, 6-11, 3-11).

Women's

Islamabad bt Balochistan 3-0 (Wasaf bt Saira 11-2, 11-1, 11-6; Aisha bt Iram 11-2, 9-11, 11-6, 11-4; Noshin bt Kalsoom 11-9, 11-7, 11-9).

Sindh bt NWFP 3-0 (Abeera Ali bt Amber 11-4, 11-2, 11-4; Qurat-ul-Ain bt Nazish 11-4, 11-3, 11-1; Sana Eram bt Aisha 11-7, 11-4, 11-8).

Wapda bt PWD 3-0 (Sadia Faleksher bt Shahida Yousaf 11-6, 11-7, 11-7; Ayesha Iqbal bt Noreen 11-4, 11-4, 11-6; Sidra Sattar bt Najia Khan 11-5, 11-4, 11-3).

Punjab 'A' bt Balochistan 3-0 (Yasmin Akhtar bt Eram Baloch 11-4, 11-6, 11-3; Saba Mushtaq bt Saira Iftikhar 11-2, 11-6, 11-2; Sobia Qamar bt Kalsoom 11-2, 11-3, 11-2).

Wapda bt AJK 3-0 (Ayesha Iqbal bt Memoona Nisar 11-2, 11-2, 11-2; Sadia Falaksher bt Kiran Khan 11-5, 11-1, 11-4; Sidra Sattar bt Saira Akbar 11-6, 11-6, 11-2).

HBL bt Army 3-1 (Sadia Yasin bt Asma Shezadi 11-6, 11-6, 8-11, 11-8; Shabnam Bilal bt Seemab Alam 11-6, 11-3, 11-8; Shabnam Bilal bt Asma Shezadi 11-5, 11-6, 11-3; Ayesha Khan lost to Kanwal Iqbal 11-8, 5-11, 6-11, 11-7, 5-11).

PWD bt AJK 3-0 (Shahida Zulfiqar bt Kiran Khan 11-4, 11-4, 11-7; Noreen Tehseen bt Saira Abbas 11-2, 11-2, 11-3; Humara Mallick bt Memoona Nisar 11-8, 11-5, 11-4).

Punjab bt Islamabad 3-0 (Saba Mushtaq bt Wasaf Naeem 12-14, 11-7, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8; Yasmin Akhter bt Noshin Awan 12-10, 11-9, 11-7; Sobia Qamar bt Ayesha Sidique 11-4, 11-5, 11-9).

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