ISLAMABAD: Top seed Aqeel Khan, second Seed Muhammad Abid Yasir Khan, Ahmed Ch, Shahzad Khan, Heera Ashiq, Muzammil Murtaza and Muzammil Murtaza moved into the quarterfinals of Men\u2019s Singles by beating their respective opponents on Thursday in the Second Benazir Bhutto (Shaheed) International Tennis Tournament at Islamabad Tennis Complex, G-5, Islamabad.
\nThe best encounter of the day was played between Yasir Khan and junior player Aman Attiqe. In the first set the score went up to 5-5all as both players held their own serves, Yasir won the first set at 7-5 by breaking 11th game of Aman Attique.
\nLong rallies were witnessed during the first set. In the second set Yasir Khan built up the winning lead 5-2 by breaking 5th game of Aman. Yasir Khan got 6 match points at this stage but could not capitalize due to some unforced error.
\nAman Attique came back into the match and level the score 6-6all. The match was decided in the tie break in which Yasir Khan won the tie break at 7-4. The match lasted two hrs twenty minutes.
\nIn the ladies singles Sara Mansoor, Ushna Suhail, and Sara Mahboob moved in to the Semi Final by beating their respective opponents quite easily. Forth quarter final between Mehak Khokhar and Mahin Aftab will be played tomorrow.
\nMen\u2019s Singles Pre-quarter finals:
\nAqeel Khan beat Israr Gul 6-2 6-2; Muhammad Abid beat Jehanzeb Khan 6-2 6-2;
\nShahzad Khan beat Asad M Khan 6-4 6-4; Yasir Khan beat Aman Attique 7-5, 7-6(4); Heera Ashiq beat Faizan Khurram 6-1 6-2;
\nAhmed Ch beat Asadullah 6-2, 6-0; Muzammil Murtaza beat Abda Haider 6-2 6-2; Mudassar Murtaza beat Shaheen Mehmood 6-4 6-3.
\nMen\u2018s Doubles Quarter finals:
\nAqeel Khan & Heera Ashiq beat Ijaz Khan & Abbas Khan 6-2 6-2;
\nMuhammad Abid & Usman Rafiq beat Shahid Afridi & Shaheen Mehmood 6-4 6-2; Muzamil Murtaza & Mudassar Murtaza beat Asad M. Khan & Fahad M.Khan 6-2 6-3; Shahzad Khan & Yasir Khan beat Faizan Khurram & Ahmed Ch 6-2 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD: Top seed Aqeel Khan, second Seed Muhammad Abid Yasir Khan, Ahmed Ch, Shahzad Khan, Heera Ashiq, Muzammil Murtaza and Muzammil Murtaza moved into the quarterfinals of Men\u2019s Singles by beating their respective opponents on Thursday in the Second Benazir Bhutto (Shaheed) International Tennis Tournament at Islamabad Tennis Complex, G-5, Islamabad. The best encounter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n