KARACHI, March 26 The quarter-final line up in the men's team event of Inter-firm table tennis tournament was drawn on Thursday when eight teams, top two from each group, stormed into last eight at the Islamia Club.

The teams include PSO 'A' and Allied Engineering 'A' (group A); KESC and Allied Engineering 'B' (group B); Glaxo Smithkline and Pakistan Petroleum Limited 'A' (group C), PSO 'B' and Hinopak 'A' (group D).

Meanwhile, the men's singles event which commenced the other day has reached the third round.

Results

Emirates Global Islamic Bank bt Sonafi Aventis B 3-0 (Ahmed Tansir bt Saeed Altaf 8-11, 9-11, 11-3, 11-5, 11-5; Shehryar Iqbal bt S. Adnan 11-8, 11-4, 11-3; Irfan Tayyab bt M. Shahid 11-7, 12-10, 8-11, 9-11, 13-11).

Allied Engineering A bt Hinopak B 3-0 (Shahid Ahmed bt M. Farooq 13-15, 11-7, 13-11, 15-13; Yousuf Shoaib bt Syed Nadeem 11-3, 11-8, 11-1; Imran Saleem bt Kamran Asghar 11-9, 11-9, 11-9).

Pakistan State Oil A bt Hinopak B 3-0 (Saleem Iqbal bt Nadeem 11-5, 11-4, 11-3; A. H. Bhatti bt Farooq 11-3, 11-6, 11-5; Atif Siddiqui bt Kamran 9-11, 11-5, 11-6, 11-4).

Hinopak B bt Sonafi Aventis 3-0 (Kamran Asghar bt S. Adnan 11-6, 11-7, 11-7; Farooq bt Saad Altaf 11-3, 11-8, 11-5; Nadeem bt M. Shahid 11-4, 14-12, 13-11).

KESC bt Popular Fabrics 3-1 (Syed Ziauddin lost to Nusrat Farooqi 6-11, 6-11, 3-11; Irshad Mamsa bt Faisal Ansari 11-6, 11-6, 11-4; Abdul Wahab bt M. Mudassar 11-1, 7-11, 14-12, 12-10; Irshad Mamsa bt M. Sultan 11-4, 6-11, 11-6, 8-11, 11-5; M. Sufyan bt Umer Daraz Faiz 11-3, 11-4, 5-11, 11-7).

Allied Engineering B bt Pakistan Petroleum Limited 3-1 (M. Sufyan bt Qadir Sharif 11-5, 12-10, 5-11, 11-9; Javed Salman lost to Umer Daraz Faiz 7-11, 12-10, 11-6, 5-11, 8-11; Zohaib Saleem bt M. Sultan 11-4, 6-11, 11-6, 8-11, 11-5; M. Sufyan bt Umer Daraz Faiz 11-3, 11-4, 5-11, 11-7).

Pakistan Petroleum Limited B bt Popular Fabrics 3-2 (Umair bt Faisal 11-4, 11-8, 11-9; Qadir lost to Nusrat 9-11, 5-11, 7-11; M. Sultan bt M. Mudassar 11-4, 11-5, 12-10; Umair lost to Nusrat 1-11, 7-11, 9-11; Qair bt Faisal 11-6, 9-11, 12-10, 11-8).

New Jubilee Insurance bt Pakistan Petroleum Limited A 3-2 (Aslam Yaqoob lost to S. Azhar Ali 6-11, 8-11, 11-6, 11-8, 6-11; Farrukh Kamal bt M. Aijaz 11-7, 11-6, 11-7; Nadeem Akbar lost to Salman Haider 2-11, 2-11, 2-11; Farrukh Kamal bt S. Azhar Ali 11-5, 11-9, 11-3; Aslam Yaqoob bt M. Aijaz 11-9, 6-11, 7-11, 11-8, 11-5).

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