Nasir shines in Sindh ranking tennis

Published February 8, 2008

KARACHI, Feb 7 Junior international Nasir Mushtaq conjured up two back-to-back victories in a day on his way to making it to men's singles last four in the Open Sindh ranking tennis championship at the DHA Sunset Club on Thursday.

First he handed a 6-1, 6-0 drubbing to Fahim Ramzan in the pre quarter-finals and then prevailed 6-0, 6-0 over Aslam Pervez in the quarters.

The highlight of the ladies singles which got underway on Thursday is participation of a young Sri Lankan Chamara Jaysinghe who has been seeded fourth among eight participants.

The Lankan sneaked into next round by posting 6-0, 7-5 win over Sara Ahmed.

Another talented player Abdul Rehman, the top seed in juniors' U-17 and U-15 singles, was unlucky to leave the event halfway as he left for Islamabad to appear in juniors' Davis Cup trials.

Results

Men's singles pre quarter-finals Robin Das bt Fahim Bhutto 6-0, 6-0; Mohammed Naseem bt Ali Mansoor Zaidi 6-4, 6-3; Nasir Mushtaq bt Fahim Ramzan 6-1, 6-0; Vinod Das bt Ali Imran 6-1, 6-0.

Quarter-final Nasir Mushtaq bt Aslam Pervez 6-0, 6-0.

Ladies singles first round Chamara Jaysinghe bt Sara Ahmed 6-0, 7-5; Uzma Zakaria w/o Aliya Hai; Eman Malik bt Maheen Dada 6-0, 6-0.

Juniors U-17 singles pre quarter-finals Talha Saeed bt Michael 6-0, 6-0; Shahbaz Khan bt Muneeb Khan 6-4, 6-1; Mustafa Tariq w/o Abdul Rehman; Zain Saeed bt Farhan Mustafa 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Boys U-15 pre quarter-finals Mustafa Zaidi bt Hamza Saeed 6-1, 6-0; Mohammed Ahmed w/o Abdul Rehman.

Friday's fixtures

Men's singles pre quarter-finals/quarter-finals 9.30am.

Juniors U-17 singles pre quarter-finals/quarter-finals 10.00am.

Boys U-15 singles pre quarter-finals/quarter-finals 12.00noon.

Boys U-11 singles, girls U-17 singles first round 1.00 pm.

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