KARACHI, April 24: After winning the women’s team event title, WAPDA showed their ascendancy by taking the men’s team event final with 3-0 success over New Khan Sports Board (NKSB) in National Ranking Badminton Championship at KPT Sports Complex Hall on Wednesday.
The only encouraging point for NKSB in defeat was a fighting show by Shabbar Hussain, who extended reigning national champion Wajid Ali before going down.
Shabbar got off to a superb start and demonstrating powerful smashing, agility and nice picking, snatched the opening game 15-5.
However, southpaw Wajid was in his strides and aided by intelligent placings, swift movement and stunning smashing he came par level by pocketing the second game 15-7.
Shabbar in last ditch offered Wajid some challenge but lanky WAPDA shuttler eventually seized the match winning the decider 15-11 to make it 3-0.
Earlier in the opening singles Zafar Tasneem after a bit of resistance in the first game outclassed Chaudhry Atique 15-7, 15-1.
In the doubles the pair of Tahir Ishaq and Waqas Ahmed created a major shock when they overwhelmed current doubles champion Rizwan Rana and Umar Zeeshan 15-12, 15-12.
In the men’s singles second round Thursday national singles champion and top seed Wajid Ali, Ex-national singles champion Ali Yar Baig, Anees-ur-Rehman, Intikhab Akram Ashraf Masih, Umar Zeeshan, Chauidhry Atique and Arshad Khan advanced in the pre-quarterfinals.
Following are results of men’s singles.
FIRST ROUND Imran Mohib (MKSB) bt Luqman Javed (Sindh) 15-9, 15-7, Shabbar Hussain (NKSB) bt Tariq Rafiq (KPT) 15-6, 15-7, Chaudhry Shafiq walkover Imtiaz Rafiq (PMAD), Tahir Ishaq (Wapda) bt Faraz Anjum (Sindh) 15-6, 15-5, Kashif Rana (Bal) walkover Muhammad Ali (Wapda), Umar Zeeshan (NKSB) walkover Aamir Ali (Sindh) Chaudhry Atqiue (MNKSB) bt Noman Ahmed (Sindh) 15-3, 15-6, Zafar Tasneem (Wapda) walkover Faizullah (Bal), Rizwan Rana (NKSB) beat Basharat (Sindh) 15-6, 15-8.
SECOND ROUND Wajid Ali (Wapda) bt Wasim Ismail (Sindh) 15-2, 15-8, Anees- ur-Rehman (KPT) bt Khalid Saleem (Sindh) 15-4, 15-8, Ali Yar Baig (ABL) bt Chaudhary Shafiq (Wapda) 15-3, 15-5, Intikhab Akram (Pjb) bt Kashif Raja (Bal) 15-10, 15-8, Ashraf Masih (PTCL) bt Adeel Siddiqui (KPT) 15-12, 15-1, Umar Zeeshan (NKSB) bt Harrison (Sindh) 15-1, 15-5, Chaudhary Atique (NKSB) bt Akram Masih (PTCL) 15-6, 15-9, Arshad Khan (PTCL) bt Mahboob (Bal) 15-7, 15-9.—APP