KARACHI: Pakistan’s tennis ace Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his partner Stefanos Tsitsipas from Greece lost in the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome on Thursday.
The unseeded pair of Aisam and Sfefanos, ranked 51st and 88th, respectively, was defeated by the unseeded duo of Jurgen Melzer from Austria and Edouard Roger-Vasselin from France 4-6, 6-1, 9-11 in the first round. This was Aisam’s first ATP Masters event of the year.