Tennis
Aqeel Khan wins the title of Shaheed Inspector Imran Abbas Tennis Tournament
Abdul Jabbar Faisal
ISLAMABAD:-Pakistan number one tennis player, Aqeel Khan has won the title of the Inspector Mian Imran Abbas Shaheed Tennis Tournament after outplaying Danish Ahmed in straight sets 2-0 in the final that held at Shalimar Club Rawalpindi. The final score-line was 6-1 and 6-2.
Earlier, in the third position play-off fixture, Hassan Ishaaq defeated Altaf Hussain 2-0 quite easily with the score-line of 6-1 and 6-1.
Major General Rehan Abdul Baqi graced the closing ceremony as chief guest and gave away the prizes to the players. On this occasion, army man appreciated the efforts of Inam- ul-Haq for naming the tennis tournaments Shohadas, as the each month two tournaments are being organized to tribute the Shohada, who sacrificed their lives for the country. He also appreciated the efforts of Punjab Lawn Tennis Association (PLTA) for sponsoring the Shodaha's tournament and he assured organizers that he would sponsor the shodaha's tournament in future.
Director tournament thanked chief guest for sparing time for prize distribution from his busy schedule. Inam-ul-Haq also thanked Iftakhar Ahmad Rao chairman PLTA and Rasheed Malik sectary general PLTA for sponsoring tournament.
Inam announced on this occasion that the prestigious Quaid-e-Azam Tennis Tournament would be staged next week at the same venue. The widow of inspector Mian Imran Abbas shaheed was present at the ceremony. Major Gernel Rehan Abdul Baqi presented the shield on behalf PLTA to the widow. Aqeel Khan presented the shield to the chief guest on the behalf of PLTA.
Reza Mirza Tennis Academy Tennis League from January 29
Sports Bulletin
KARACHI:-Karachi Tennis Association (KTA) will organize 2nd Reza Mirza Tennis Academy (RMTA) Tennis League 2022 from Saturday (January 29) at RMTA Tennis Court, Civil Line near Frere Hall Karachi.
According to an official, Reza Mirza Tennis Academy will sponsor this two month long Round Robin League (RRL) tennis fixture. Men's Singles and Boys Under-15 Singles events will be the part RRL. Matches shall be played only on Saturday.
Names of Men's singles invited players:
Farhan Altaf, Omer Shahid, Ibrahim Iltifat, Nadir Mirza, Noor e Mustafa, Aqeel Shabbir, Eibad Sarwar and Mohammad Ali.
Names of Under-15 invited players:
Ahsan Ahmed, Nael Mirza, Dhuraf Das, and Abdullah Razaq, Soyam Kumar
Three players shall be selected through trials.
Islamabad Tennis Association nominates Tariq Mehmood Murtaza as its Chairman
Abdul Jabbar Faisal
ISLAMABAD:-Islamabad Tennis Association (ITA) has nominated Tariq Mehmood Murtaza its chairman in the Annual General Meeting (AGM) that met here on Sunday, as president preside over the meeting at Tennis Lounge of Islamabad Club. Also attended by members of its affiliated unites including Margalla Club, Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL), Pakistan Television (PTV), Islamabad Club Tennis (ICT), Islamabad Tennis Academy (ITC) and Gun Club.
On this occasion, Tariq Murtaza appreciated the role of affiliated units for their valuable contribution for the promotion of tennis in the country. He particularly appreciated ICT, ITC and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) for organizing national tournaments, camps, league and local tournament. It is also a great honor for Islamabad Tennis Association to organize international tournaments in Pakistan. ITA will start its tournament session with ITF world Juniors Tennis Tournament from February at PTF Tennis complex.
ITA also offered Fateh for late Senator Syed Dilawar Abbas, who was the founder of Islamabad Tennis Association. Activities report for the three years also discussed in the meeting. Future plans were discussed in details and each affiliated units assured to play their role for the promotion of tennis in the Islamabad region. Tariq Mehmood Murtaza also nominated as Chairman of Islamabad Tennis Association through special resolution unanimously approved by the council members. ITA president also appreciated the services of Arif Qureshi for organizing the tournaments in professional manners on behalf of ITA.
Names of Management Committee:
Chairman Tariq Murtaza
President Tariq Murtaza
Sr. Vice Presidents Hassan Baig
Naveed Ahmed
Majid Bashir
Vice Presidents: Mushaf Zia, Fazal-e-Subhan, Nouman Ahmed, Yasir Javed, Khalil Ahmed Chughtai, Tufail Cheema
Secretary: Mohammad Arif Qureshi
Joint Secretaries: Kamran Khalil and Ali Murtaza
Treasurer: Ahsan Zaidi
Women’s Wing:
Nighat Saeed (Head), Zahra Ahmed Zaka, Tasha Yasir, Mehwish Chishti.
Australian Open: Aisam and his partner reach in quarterfinal in Mix Doubles
Sports Bulletin
ISLAMABAD:-Pakistan tennis start Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi pairing with Ninomiya from Japan have jumped into the quarterfinal of Mix Doubles of the Australian Open after defeating L. Kichinek from Ukraine Andre Golubev from Kazakhstan in straight sets 2-0 at Melbourne Australia on Sunday morning. The final score-line was 6-3 and 6-4.
Pakistan Tennis Federation names the four junior teams for international fixtures
Abdul Jabbar Faisal
ISLAMABAD:-Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) has named the 4 national junior tennis teams for the upcoming International Tennis Federation (ITF) international fixtures including Junior Davis Cup 2022. The Junior Davis Cup will be held in Malaysia from April 4 to 9 while rest of three juniors’ events will be taken place in Sri Lanka.
According to an official of PTF, all teams are consisted of one non-playing captain and three players, as the team have been selected on merit after conducting the trials at PTF Tennis Complex, Garden Avenue Islamabad. Players were invited for trials purely on merit according to their national and international ranking, as well as performance.
PTF will also conduct the trials to select the national team for Davis Cup Tennis Tie. Pakistan will face Lithuania on March 4 to 5, 2022 at the grass courts of Pakistan Sports Board (PSB), Islamabad. The trials will be held on the grass courts of Cosmopolitan Club, Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore, from 16th February 2022. The top 6 players as per the latest PTF Men's Singles ranking will take part in these trials. The players will get the place in squad after producing acceptable results during the trials competitions. Top national tennis lads Aisam ul Haq Qureshi and Aqeel Khan have been exempted from the trials.
Junior Davis Cup (Boys Under-16); Malaysia, April 4 to 9, 2022
Rashid Malik (Captain)
Mohammad Huzaifa Khan
Bilal Asim
Hamid Israr
Junior Billie Jean King Cup (Girls Under-16); Sri Lanka, February 21 to 26, 2022
Sara Mansoor(Captain)
Natalia Zaman
Sheeza Sajid
Amna Ali Qayum
World Junior Tennis (Boys Under-14); Sri Lanka, February 14 to 19, 2022
Mahboob Khan (Captain)
Ahtesham Humayun
Husnain Ali Rizwan
Hamza Roman
World Junior Tennis (Girls Under-14); Sri Lanka, February 14 to 19, 2022
Sara Mansoor(Captain)
Amna Ali Qayum
Zunaisha Noor
Soha Ali
Names of players for Davis Cup team trials:
1. Mohammad Shoaib
2. Muzammil Murtaza
3. Mohammad Abid
4. Yusuf Khalil
5. Mudasir Murtaza
6. Heera Ashiq
Australian Open: Aisam and Alexander claim an upset victory
Abdul Jabbar Faisal
ISLAMABAD:-Pakistan’s tennis star, Aisam ul Qureshi and his partner Alexander Nedovyesov from Kazakhstan claimed an upset victory after overcoming 7th seed pair Nicholas Mahut, former World No.1 and French lad Fabrice Martin 2-1 in a three sets contest in the Doubles Event of Australian Open on Thursday at Melbourne Park Australia. The final score-line was7-6, 5-7 and 6-2, as the match lasted 2 hours 27 minutes.
According to available information from Melbourne, the first set went neck-to-neck to tie break without any side succeeding to break the serve of each other. Aisam and his partner convincingly grabbed the set at 7-6. In the second set Pak/Kazakh duo broke their opponents at 2-2 and were unable to close the match when serving at 5-4 as French pair came back strongly and the French went on to win the set 7-5.
In the third set, however Aisam-ul-Haq and Alexander displayed top quality tennis by showing excellent combination and understanding to the next level and broke first the serve of Fabrice and then of Mahut consecutively and then finished the set and the match with 6-2 score in the third.
Subh-e-Nau National Ranking Ladies Tennis Tournament starts from January 30, 2022
Abdul Jabbar Faisal
ISLAMABAD:-The Subh-e-Nau National Ranking Ladies Tennis Tournament, pursing Rs. 200 thousands prize money, will start from January 30 instead of January 23 at SDA-PTF Tennis Complex, Garden Avenue Islamabad.
Chairperson of Subh-e-Nau, Shahida Kausar Farooq, who is also director tournament, told this reporter that tournament was scheduled to start from January 23 but due to weather reports regarding, as heavy rain forecasted in the twin cities Rawalpindi and Islamabad in these days, now, the matches will start from January 30 at same venue.
“The final will be played on February 3, 2022, as top national female players will take part in the annual tennis fixture of Subh-e-Nau. The tournament will be organized by Subh-e-Nau in the collaboration with Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF). Ladies’ Singles, Ladies’ Doubles and Under-14 Singles categories competitions will be held during the 5-day national tennis tournament, “she added.
Defending Champion Novak Djokovic announces to withdraw from Australian Open
Asif Abbasi
The defending champion of the Australian Open Tennis Tournament, 34 years old Serbian guy Novak Djokovic has announced to withdraw from the tournament, as the Australian immigration has revoked his visa once again.
Minister Alex Hawke said that he had exercised his broad powers under section 133C (3) of the Migration Act to cancel Djokovic’s visa “on health and good order grounds” basis that it was in the public interest to do so. “In making this decision, I carefully considered information provided to me by the Department of Home Affairs, the Australian Border Force and Djokovic.”
“The Morrison government is firmly committed to protecting Australia’s borders, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.” Judge Anthony Kelly, who overturned the first cancellation of Djokovic’s visa on Monday earlier this week, will again preside over the case.
He also faces 3 year automatic ban if he denied visa again. But immigration minister can wave off using his powers. Djokovic arrived in Melbourne on January 5 and promptly had his visa canceled for entering the country without a valid reason why he couldn't be vaccinated against Covid-19.
He spent several nights in a detention hotel in Melbourne, which also houses dozens of refugees.
His lawyers challenged the decision and won the legal battle on Monday, on the basis Djokovic's had covid on December 16 after attending kids’ tennis tournament. But questions have been raised on Djokovic’s behavior after testing positive for Covid-19 on December 16 as he had attended some events after 16 December and on his previous visa application that he had not visited in last 14 days to any country.
Subh-e-Nau Ladies National Ranking Tournaments from January 22
Sports Report
ISLAMABAD (January 14, 2022):-The Subh-e- Nau Ladies National Ranking Tennis Tournament will start from January 22 at SDA-PTF Tennis Complex in collaboration with Pakistan Tennis Federation.
According to an official, Ladies’ Singles, Ladies’ Doubles and Under-14 Singles categories competitions will be held during the 5-day national tennis tournament, as the fixture will be pursuing prize money of Rs 200 thousand. The deadline for entries will be January 19, 2022.
Aisam and Alexander post 2-1 win in ATP World Ranking Championship
Abdul Jabbar Faisal
ISLAMABAD (January 12, 2022):-Pakistan’s top tennis player Aisam Qureshi pairing with Alexander Nedovyesov from Kazakhstan outclassed 7th seeded pair Rojer Jean Julien of Holland and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador 2-0 in the ATP World Ranking Tennis Championship match to earn the place in the quarterfinal round in Sydney Australia. The final score-line was 7-6 and 6-4.
According to available information from abroad, earlier they beat the Anglo Finish pair of Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovaara with the score-line of 6-7, 6- 3 and 10-7 in the first round
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