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ISLAMABAD: Besides top seed Aqeel Khan, 16 players have jumped into the second round of the Men’s Singles event of the ongoing 35th Federal Cup National Ranking Tennis Championships at Syed Dilawar Abbas PTF Tennis Complex, Garden Avenue, Islamabad on Tuesday.
The best encounter of the day was between upcoming youngsters Ahmed Nael Qureshi and Sami Zeb Khan, both from Islamabad. Ahmed Nael Qureshi won the match in a well-contested three-set match. In the first set, Sami Zeb was leading 5-2 by breaking the 3rd and 7th games of Qureshi and grabbed the 1st set by holding his own serve of the 8th game.
In the second set, Qureshi changed his game plan and played aggressively to take up the lead 5-1 by breaking 2nd, 4th, and 6th games of Khan. At this point, Qureshi lost his 7th game by hitting some unforced down the lines but in the 9th game, Qureshi wrapped up the set at 6-3 and leveled the match 1-1 set all.
In the final set, Qureshi again changed his pace of the game and build up the winning lead without conceding a single game by breaking 1st, 3rd and 5th games of Khan. In the 2nd round Qureshi will face top seed Aqeel Khan in the pre-quarterfinal tomorrow (Wednesday) at the same venue.
The second round matches of Men’s Singles, Junior Singles as well as 1st round of Men’s Doubles, Ladies Singles will be held on Wednesday (December 7, 2022) at the PTF-SDA Tennis Complex courts, Islamabad.
Results:
Men’s Singles (Main Draw Round-I):
Aqeel Khan beat Bilal Asim 6-1, 7-5
Ahmed Nael Qureshi beat Sami Zeb Khan 2-6, 6-3, 6-0
Mohammad Talha Khan beat Mohammad Azeem Khan 7-6 (5), 6-1
Barkatullah beat Mohammad Hamza Aasim 6-3, 6-2
Muzammil Murtaza beat Hamid Israr 6-3, 6-3
Sayed Nofil Kaleem beat Abdul Hanan Khan 6-2, 6-4
Abdullah Adnan beat Shahzad Khan 2-6, 7-5 (retd)
Heera Ashiq beat Major Suleman 6-1, 6-1
Muadssar Murtaza beat Parbat Kumar 6-2, 6-1
Mohammad Waqas Malik beat Hasam Khan 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (7)
Baqar Ali beat Jibran-ul-Haq 6-4, 6-2
Mohammad Abid beat Usman Ejaz Yousaf 6-3, 6-1
Yousaf Khalil beat Mahatir Mohammad Khan 7-5, 6-3
Mohammad Huzaifa Khan beat Uzair Khan 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
Asadullah Khan beat Daisuke Ubemi 6-3, 7-6 (5)
Mohammad Shoaib beat Mohammad Salar 6-0, 6-2.
Under-18 Singles (Main Draw Round-I):
Bilal Asim beat Faisal Khalil 6-1, 6-0
Talha Khan w/o Jabir Ali
Hamid Israr beat Saaim Shehzad 6-0, 6-0
Abdul Hanan Khan beat Zaeem Ghafoor 6-0, 6-0
Arslan Khan w/o Saif Ali Khan
Mohammad Salar w/o Abdul Basit
Ibrahim Nouman Yousaf w/o Nabeel Ali Qayyum
Mohammad Talha Khan beat Rayan Ahmed Khan 6-1, 6-0
Mohammad Hamza Aasim w/o Hamza Roman Khan.
