Tennis: Qamar, Das win opening fixtures

KARACHI: Nomi Qamar and Vinod Das cruised into the second round of the Sindh Westbury Open Ranking Tennis Championship underway at the Karachi Gymkhana. Davis Cupper Qamar defeated Adil Kohari 7-5, 6-3, while Das outplayed Talha Zubair 7-6 in the first set tie-break before his opponent retired with a leg injury. In the women’s singles Sahar Khwaja cruised past Wania Khan 6-0, 6-2 in their first-round clash. Meanwhile, Zubair sailed into the juniors’ under-17 quarter-finals after he barely broke a sweat in dismissing Shehroz 6-0, 6-0. Malik Hamza also booked his place in the last-four after outplaying Fahad Khan 6-2, 6-2.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 15^th, 2012.