Ahmad Nael Qureshi surprises seventh seed Abdullah Adnan in straight sets 2-0
Sports Bulletin Report
ISLAMABAD: Except 7th seeded, Abdullah Adnan, the rest of the seeded tennis players moved into the second round of the Men’s Singles event of the 36th Federal Cup National Ranking Tennis Championships after beating their respective opponents at Abbas PTF-SDA Tennis Complex, Garden Avenue, Islamabad Tuesday.
The best encounter of the day was between upcoming youngsters Ahmad Nael Qureshi and Abdullah Adnan in which Ahmad Nael Qureshi ousted the seventh seed lad in a well-contested straight-set match.
In the first set, Ahmad Nael built up the winning lead 4-1 by breaking the 3rd and 5th game of Abdullah Adnan. Both the players exhibited excellent game of tennis. Abdulah bounced back by winning the 6th and 8th game and reduced the lead 4-5. At this point, Ahmad played aggressively and hold his serve in the 10 game and finished the first set at 6-4.
In the second set Ahmed again played brilliantly and build the winning lead 4-2 by breaking 3rd game of Abdullah. In the 8th game both the players showed their prowess which lasted in favour of Abdullah and levelled the match 4 games all. Ahmed Nael show his supremacy and hitting excellent down the lines and cross court and break the 11th game to build up the lead 6-5 and by holding the 12th game finished the match at 7-5.
Results (Men’s Singles Round-I):
Mohammad Shoaib (PAF) beat Mohammad Hamza Aasim 6-3, 6-0, Amir Mazari beat Mohammad Haziq Aasim 6-2, 7-5, Hamza Roman beat Mohammad Azeem Khan 6-0, 6-1, Yousaf Khalil beat Kashan Tariq 6-1, 6-1, Muzammil Murtaza beat Jibran-ul-Haq 6-2, 6-1, Mohammad Salaar Khan beat Kamran Maqbool 6-4, 6-4, Shahzad Khan beat Mustansir Ali 6-1, 6-1, Barkatullah beat Zalan Khan 6-1, 6-2, Mudassar Murtaza beat Hamza Hussain 6-3, 6-3, Sami Zeb Khan beat Mohammad Waqas Malik 6-1, 6-4, Huzaima Abdul Rehman w/o Syed Nofil Kaleem, Mohammad Abid beat Hamid Israr 6-2, 6-2, Ahmad Nael Qureshi beat Abdullah Adnan 6-4, 7-5, Saqib Hayat beat Mohammad Talha Khan 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, Mohammad Zaryab Khan beat Talha Khan 6-0, 6-2, Aqeel Khan beat Mohammad Huzaifa Khan 6-1, 6-2.
Junior U18 Singles (Round-I):
Abdul Basit beat Kamran Khan 6-3, 6-3
Kashan Tariq beat Mustansir Ali 6-4, 6-3
