Tennis: Qamar, Das win opening fixtures
Nomi Qamar and Vinod Das cruised into the second round of the Sindh Westbury Open Ranking Tennis Championship.
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 15th, 2012.
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 15th, 2012.