KARACHI, March 24 The Inter-firm table tennis tournament commenced at the Islamia Club on Tuesday with teams of 12 commercial organisations vying for honours.

Some departments have fielded two outfits in the competition.

According to Karachi Table Tennis Association (KTTA) officials, the Karachi ranking table tennis tournament will commence from Friday.

Results

Allied Engineering A bt Sonafi Aventis B 3-0 (Imran Saleem bt Ghaffar Hussain 11-5, 9-11, 12-10, 11-8; Yousuf Shoaib bt M. Shahid 11-9, 11-4, 11-5; Shahid Ahmed bt S. Adnan 11-3, 11-7, 11-7).

Hino Pak B bt Emirates Global Islamic Bank A 3-0 (M. Farooq bt Ahmed Tansir 11-9, 9-11, 12-10, 11-6; S. Nadeem bt Shehryar Iqbal 11-7, 11-3, 13-11; Kamran bt Irfan Tayyab 11-8, 12-10, 9-11, 11-4).

KESC bt Pakistan Petrolim B 3-1 (Irshad Mamsa bt M. Sultan 11-2, 11-5, 11-3; Mansoor Ali bt Qadid Sharif 11-3, 7-11, 11-7, 12-10; Abdul Wahab lost to Umer 10-12, 7-11, 11-9, 8-11; Irshad Mamsa bt Qadid Sharif 11-3, 11-7, 11-6).

Pakistan Petroleum Limited A bt Glaxo Smithkline 3-2 (M. Aijaz lost to Asim Hussain 5-11, 3-11, 6-11; Salman Haider bt Khawar Saeed 11-2, 11-9, 4-11, 11-3; S. Azher Ali bt Yousuf Hasan 11-2, 11-9, 12-10; Salman Haider lost to Asim Hussain 11-9, 3-11, 2-11, 2-11; M. Aijaz bt Khawar Saeed 11-6, 7-11, 11-4, 4-11, 11-4).

Pakistan State Oil B bt Sonafi Aventis A 3-0 (Farrukh Siddiqui bt Michael Joel 11-2, 11-6, 11-9; Ameer Pervez bt Fazal Shaheen 11-4, 11-2, 11-7; Zubair Qureshi bt Asim Shahzad 11-3, 11-4, 11-4).

Hini Pak A bt Sonafi Aventis A 3-0 (Kaeyan Quettawala bt Michael Joel 12-10, 11-9, 14-12; Shahzad Shaikh bt Ghazal Ahmed 11-2, 11-6, 11-4; Manzar Abbas bt Asim Shahzad 6-11, 11-9, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7).

Allied Engineering B bt Popular Fabrics 3-2 (M. Sufyan lost to Nusrat Farooqi 4-11, 4-11, 5-11; Zohaib Saleem bt M. Mudassar 9-11, 11-6, 11-9, 13-11; S. M. Arif bt Faisal Ansari 11-8, 11-9, 11-5; Zohaib Saleem lost to Nusrat Farooqi 7-11, 4-11, 3-11; M. Sufyan bt M. Mudassar 11-5, 11-8, 11-5).