Aqeel moves ahead in Subh-e-Nau championship

KARACHI: Aqeel Khan beat Nofil Khan 6-1, 6-1 to move into the next round of men’s singles category in Subh-e-Nau Earth Day National Clay Court Tennis championship in Islamabad on Friday.
In other matches, Rashid Khan beat Ikram Ullah 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Zaid Mujahid beat Talah bin Asif 6-3, 5-7, 6-1; Imran Shaukat beat Farhad Ali 6-4, 6-0; Jibran ul Haq beat Yasir Khan 7-5, 6-7(3), 7-6(3); Kashan ul Haq beat Mabarak Shah 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; Zeeshan beat Inamullah 6-4, 6-3; Usman Rafiq beat Shahid Afridi 6-2, 6-3.
Heera Aashiq beat Sikandar 6-1, 6-2; Irfanullah beat Saqib Umar 6-3, 6-3; Ahmed Baber beat Abdul Rahman 7-5, 7-6(4); Shahzad Khan beat Raja Shahid 6-2, 6-2; Abdal Haider beat Shahzad 6-4, 6-1; Muhammad Mudasir beat Muhammad Muzammil 6-7(8), 6-4, 6-3; Shaheen Mehmood beat Ijaz Khan 6-4, 6-4; and Muhammad Abid beat Hamza bin Asif 6-0, 6-1.
In boys under-18 event, Syed Nofil beat Ibrahim Nazir 6-0, 6-0; Huzaifa beat Farhanullah 6-0, 6-0; Rafiq beat Hameed Israr 6-2, 7-5; Aman Atiq beat Shoaib Khan 6-0, 6-1; Zaid Mujahid beat Abdal Haider 6-4, 7-6(4); Haris Irfan beat Mujahid Zaib 6-4, 6-2; Hamza got walkover against Hafiz Abrar.
Hamza bin Asif beat Muhammad Abdullah 6-1, 6-0; Barkatullah beat Saad Abjad 6-1, 6-1; Muneeb beat Talha Saqib 6-0, 7-6(4); Saqib Umer got walkover against Huzaifa; Talha bin Asif beat Aqab Umer 6-1, 6-0; Ilham Khan beat Zain Rohail 6-3, 6-1; M Wamiq beat Kashan Umar 6-0, 6-2; Musa Chohdri got walkover against Waleed Anwar; and M Muzammil beat M Huzaifa 6-1, 6-2.
In boys under-14, Huzaifa beat Haseeb 4-1, 4-1, Zain Asghar got walkover against Bahdoor, Hamidullah defeated Aarijullah 4-2, 4-1, and Hamza bin Rehman thrashed Danish Abbasi 4-0, 4-0.