KARACHI, Sept 30 Davis Cupper and top seed Yasir Khan took a step closer to capture the men's singles crown when he registered convincing victory over junior international Nameer Shamsi in the semi-final of 20th Talent Hunt Sindh Ranking Tennis Championship at the PN Physical Training and Sports Centre on Thursday.

He returned 6-0, 6-3 victorious over the fourth seed opponent and drawn to meet the winner of second semi-final Omer Usman and Omer Shahid for the title battle on Friday.

Nameer had some consolation when he sneaked into the juniors' under-17 final defeating fourth seed Talha Zubair Surmawala in three set duel. The scores were 6-1, 5-7, 10-5.

Results

Men's singles

Semi-final Yasir Khan bt Nameer Shamsi 6-0, 6-3.

Juniors' under-17 singles

Quarter-final Nameer Shamsi bt Saad Noor Sumar 6-0, 6-1.

Semi-final Nameer Shamsi bt Talha Zubair Surmawala 6-1, 5-7, 10-5.

Boys and girls under-13 singles

Quarter-finals Azhar A. Qadir bt Saeed Hussain 8-2; Maheen Dada bt Murtaza Mubeen 8-2.

Boys and girls under-15 singles

Quarter-final Malik Hamza bt Aqeel Khan 8-3.

Semi-final Talha Zubair Surmawala bt Malik Hamza 8-6.

Boys and girls under-15 doubles

Semi-final Murad Khan and Aqeel Khan bt Azhar A. Qadir and Hassan Siddiqui 8-2.

Friday's fixtures

Boys under-11 singles final and boys under-9 singles final 12noon; boys' under-13 singles final 1.00pm; ladies singles final and juniors' under-17 singles final 2.00pm; boys and girls under-15 singles final 3.00pm; men's singles final 3.30pm.

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