KARACHI, Sept 24 The three-day qualifying rounds of the 20th Talent Hunt Sindh Ranking Tennis Championship commenced at the synthetic courts of PN Physical Training and Sports Centre Karsaz on Friday.

The pro-set qualifiers which will continue until Sunday are being played due to enormous entries in different categories.

According to organisers, the men's singles main round will starts on Monday.

Results Men's singles first qualifying round

Fahad Khan bt Salman Mati 8-5; Ahsan Lakhani bt Kabir Khan 8-1; Abdullah Khan bt Riasat 8-6; Arshad Shahid bt Nadir Shah (Larkana) 8-0; Saad Noor Sumar bt Tassawur 8-2; Zain Malik bt Shahnawaz Abdul Majeed 8-1; Khalid Ahmed (Larkana) bt Fahad Naseem 8-5.

Juniors' under-17 singles qualifying round

Hamza Afsar bt Waniya Khan 8-2; Neha Khan bt Abdullah 8-4; Salman Mati bt Ajay Chohan 8-3; Anil Chuhan bt Saad 8-0.

Saturday's fixtures

Boys and girls under-15 singles qualifying round 9.00am; men's singles qualifying round 11.00am; juniors' under-17 singles qualifying round 1.00pm; boys and girls under-13 qualifying round 4.00pm.

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