KARACHI, April 20 Country's ace tennis player Aqeel Khan had a cakewalk over Faraz Meer to surge into the men's singles quarter-finals of the fourth Sindh Open ranking tennis tournament of the year at the Beach View Club on Tuesday.

Playing his first match after getting a bye, the top seed convincingly got the better of his opponent 6-3, 6-0. Aqeel is drawn to face Multan's Imran Shoukat in the quarters as the latter was home over Basit Gabol 6-3 (retired).

Three other players who moved into the last-eight phase include Nomi Qamer, Yasir Khan and Saif Noor Sumar. Nomi accounted for Shahbaz Khosa 6-1, 6-3 while Yasir overcame Asadullah 6-2, 6-1. Saif whipped Hyderabad's Noman Farid 6-3, 6-0.

Winners of three more matches are yet to join the above five to complete the last eight line-up.

Results

Men's singles

First round Omer Shahid Maniya bt Sikander Hayayt Khan 6-1, 6-2; Mohammed Nasim bt Hamza Pataudi 7-5, 6-2; Rehan Iqbal bt Hassan Siddiqui 6-2, 6-0; Faraz Meer bt Jahanzaib Khan 6-0, 6-2.

Pre quarter-finals Aqeel Khan bt Faraz Meer 6-3, 6-0; Imran Shoukat (Multan) bt Basit Gabol 6-3 (retired); Nomi Qamer bt Shahbaz Khosa 6-1, 6-3; Yasir Khan bt Asadullah Khan 6-2, 6-1; Saif Noor Sumar bt Noman Farid (Hyderabad) 6-3, 6-0.

Boys' under-11 singles

First round Asfand (Sukkar) bt Suhail Fayyaz 8-2; Hassan Farooq bt Shehryar Jamal 8-0.Quarter-final Umair Tariq bt Kanishkan 8-2.

Boys' under-15 doubles

First round Hamza Nisar and Aamir Ali bt Haresh Das and Hassan Farooq 9-7.

Wednesday's fixtures

Men's singles and juniors' under-17 singles 9.00am; men's doubles 12noon; boys' under-15 singles 3.00pm; ladies singles 4.00pm.