LAHORE, March 16: Twenty-five matches were decided in the U-19 and U-16 events on the first day of the National badminton championship at the Iqbal Park Sports Complex here on Friday.

Sixteen matches were played in the U-19 and nine in the U-16 category.

In the U-19 category Imran Khan of Pakistan Railways stretched Punjab’s Ahsan Imtiaz to three sets. Ahsan won the first set 23-21 but Imran made a comeback to take the next two sets 21-11, 21-9 to reach the second round.

Results:

(U-19 boys)

Haroon (NWFP) bt Usama Junaid (Punjab) 21-11, 21-17; Shabal (Punjab) bt Junaid (Rawalpindi) 21-5, 21-6; Azeem Sarwar bt Rehman(Rawalpindi) 21-7, 21-9; Haseeb Irshad bt M Salman (NWFP) 21-10, 23-21; Shera-uz-Zaman bt Hafiz Umar (Punjab) 21-13, 21-19; Faizan Majeed bt Hasan (NWFP) 21-11, 21-9; Hasan Zaidi bt Naveed Anjum (Faisalabad) 21-5, 21-17; Kashif (NWFP) bt Zeeshan Tariq (Lahore) 21-14, 21-10; Shujaat Ahmed (Punjab) bt Bilal (Rawalpindi) 21-1, 21-1; Mobeen Ahmed bt Adil (NWFP) 21-9, 21-7; Tahir Khan (NWFP) bt Iftikhar (Faisalabad) 21-15, 21-17; Bilal Rabbani bt Adnan 21-6, 21-3; Imran Khan (Railways) bt Ahsan Imtiaz (Punjab) 21-23, 21-11, 21-9; Bilal (Punjab) bt Abdullah Hammad (Lahore) 21-17, 21-16; Sajid (Burewala) bt Moin Khan (Quetta) 21-11, 21-12; Ali Nawab Dil (Punjab) bt Qamar Zaman (Punjab) 21-8, 21-15.

(U-16 boys)

Haroon (NWFP) bt Awais Zahid (Faisalabad) 21-15, 21-16; Ali Luqman (Sindh) bt Jazib (Rawalpindi) 21-19, 21-12; Inzamam-ul-Haq bt Sh Subhan (Bahawalnagar) 21-5, 21-7; Anwar-ul-Haq bt Iftikhar Yousuf (Faisalabad) 21-6, 21-14; M Tahir (NWFP) bt Arsalan Nawaz (Burewala) 21-18, 21-8; Adil (NWFP) bt M Imran (Sindh) 21-9,21-7; Hannan Raza (Okara) bt M Arsalan (Sindh) 21-15, 21-10; Arsalan (Burewala) bt Aamer Saeed (Daska) 21-14, 21-8; Zeeshan Tariq (Lahore) bt Anjum Bashir (Daska) 21-10, 21-16.