Urooj storms into final of SSB Tennis

Published January 27, 2010

KARACHI, Jan 26 Young Urooj Iltifat reached ladies singles final, first of her career, when she handed out 7-5, 6-4 defeat to Neha in the first pre-final of SSB Development Series Tennis championship at City Sports Complex on Tuesday.

Urooj, 14, is now set to meet Eman Malik for the title battle after the latter outplayed Neha's sibling Wania 6-0, 6-0 in the other semi-final.

Mubbashir Afridi and Omer Shahid were through to the men's singles last four registering contrasting victories over their respective opponents.

Mubbashir accounted for Mohammad Abdul Saeed 6-2, 7-5 while Omer was home 6-0, 6-0 over Faiq Azam in convincing fashion.

Results

Ladies singles semi-finals

Urooj Iltifat bt Neha 7-5, 6-4; Eman Malik bt Wania 6-0, 6-0.

Juniors' under-17 singles first round

Talha Zubair Surmawala bt Hassan Siddiqui 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

Boys' under-15 singles first round

Aqeel Khan bt Minhas Sabir 8-3; Azhar A. Qadir walkover Faizan Fayyaz;

Shahbaz Fayyaz bt Hassan Siddiqui 8-5.

Boys' under-13 singles first round

Ibrahim Iltifat bt Adnan Allahwala 8-2; Minhas Sabir bt M. Ali Shayan 8-2; Azhar A. Qadir bt Asim Allahwala 8-3.

Boys' under-13 quarter-finals

Emad Najam bt M. Khizer Imran 8-4; Minhas Sabir bt Jalaluddin Baber (Mirpurkhas) 8-4.

Boys' under-11 singles first round

M. Khizer Imran bt Kanishkan 8-5; M. Raza Sawani bt Asim Allahwala 8-6.

Boys' under-11 singles semi-final

M. Raza Sawani bt Asim Allahwala 8-2.

Men's singles first round

Omer Shahid bt Mohammed Naseem 6-2, 6-0; Fayyaz Ahmed bt Ali Affan 6-2, 6-0; Addel Imtiaz walkover Iltifat Ahmed.

Men's singles quarter-finals

Mubbashir Afridi bt Mohammed Abdul Saeed 6-2, 7-5; Omer Shahid bt Faiq Azam 6-0, 6-0.

Wednesday's fixtures

Men's singles 10.00am; men's doubles 12.00noon; boys' under-15 singles and boys' under-13 singles 2.00pm; junior doubles 3.30pm.

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