News by “Hamza Ijaz”
The Pakistan Tennis Federation pleased to inform you that the ITF Pakistan Zainab Ali Naqvi Memorial World Junior Championship Leg-2 commenced today at PTF -SDA Tennis Complex Islamabad, in memory of the late Zainab Ali Naqvi, an upcoming junior tennis player, who very tragically passed away in Islamabad last wee
48 players boys & Girls from Kazakhstan, Turkey, USA, Hongkong, China, Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Romania, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Holland and Thailand are participating in the Championships. 30 Pakistani boys & girls are also participating in the Championship
A ceremony was held at PTF Complex today to dedicate Court No-1 of the Complex to the memory of the late Zainab Ali Naqvi. Henceforth, Court No-1 will be called Zainab Ali Naqvi
The dedication ceremony was graced by Zainab’s parents, who had especially flown in from Karachi. Also in attendance were Senator Salim Saifullah Khan, Ex-President-PTF; Mr Aisam ul Haq Qureshi, President of PTF, and a large number of foreign and local players’ parents, coaches and tennis lov
Senator Salim Saifullah Khan and Mr. Aisam ul Haq paid rich tribute to the young and talented Zainab and expressed their condolences and deep sympathies to her parents on their own behalf and on behalf of all those present on the occasion. The tennis fraternity is indeed in great shock and she will be always remember
The results are as
Boys Singles 1st Round: Xiuyuan Guo(CHN) bt Papangkorn(THA) 6-4,6-2; Doruk Elbirlik (TUR) bt M.Haider Ali Rizwan (PAK) 6-2,6-4; Jacob Shen (HKG) bt M. Salar Khan (PAK) 6-1,6-0; Ahmed Nael Qureshi (PAK) bt Ye Chan Choi(KOR) 6-1,6-1; Ahtesham Humayun(PAK) bt Howard Chan (HKG) 6-3,6-1; M. Hamza Aasim (PAK) bt Jun An (KOR) 6-4,6-2; Amir Mazari (PAK) bt Nuran Wikramasinge(SRI) 6-3,2-6,6-2; Kaigaoge Kang(CHN) bt Akmal Arabdjanov (UZB) 6-0,6-1; Bilal Asim (PAK) bt Par Chandragholica(THA) 6-1,6-3; Shijijie Chen(CHN) bt Asad Zaman (PAK) 6-0,6-1; Ilya Kryukov(RUS) bt Ju Hun Choo (KOR) 6-2,6-1; Dong Hyeon Euom (KOR) bt Ege Avci (TUR) 6-1