Shoaib & Subhan in last-8 of Tajammul & Dilawar Abbas Memorial ITF Juniors Championship 2020
Subhan Bin Salik caused a major upset when he outclassed third seed Matteo Covato of Italy in straight sets at Tajammul & Dilawar Abbas Memorial ITF Juniors Championship 2020 being played at PTF Complex, Islamabad.
On the second day of Tajammul & Dilawar Abbas Memorial ITF Juniors Championship 2020, promising Subhan Bin Salik caused a major upset when he outclassed third seed Matteo Covato of Italy in straight sets at the PTF Complex, Islamabad.
Subhan recorded a 6-4, 6-4 victory to qualify for the quarter-final, while another local boy Mohammad Shoaib, after crushing Romanian Iustin Belea 6-3, 6-0 also made the last eight.
The only Pakistani girl in the main round, Zoha Asim, too registered her victory in the first round against Malaysia’s Sie Ding Chai in a thirlling three-set match 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
Zoha started off with immense confidence and took an 2-1 lead but in the next game she was unable to maintain it and Chai leveled the match 4-4.
The local girl again build up the lead by holding her nintth game and broke Chai’s 11th to win the first set 6-4. Chai won the second set by breaking Zoha’s fourth, sixth and eighth game to level the scores. Zoha hit six double faults in the second set but won the final set at 6-2 by breaking Chai’s first, third and seventh games.
Dorsa Gherghai of Iran and Turkey’s Leyla Nilufer Elmas also played a nail-biting fixture with Cherghai winning 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 eventually. In the boys’ doubles event, an unseeded Turkish pair of Birtan Duran and Kerem Ozlale also ground out a stunning 7-6 (2), 3-6, 10-7 win the pair of Russia’s Nikita Bortinichek and Azerbaijan’s Haktan Garayev.
Boys’ singles (second round) Results:
| Player | vs | Player | Score line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haktan Garayev (Azerbaijan) | def | Chun Tang (Chinese Taipei) | 6-3, 6-4 |
| Mohammad Shoaib (Pakistan) | def | Iustin Belea (Romania) | 6-3, 6-0 |
| Subhan Bin Salik (Pakistan) | def | Matteo Covato (Italy) | 6-4, 6-4 |
| Souta Oomura (Japan) | def | Birtan Duran (Turkey) | 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 |
Girls’ singles (first round):
| Player | vs | Player | Score line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorsa Cheraghi (Iran) | def | Leyla Nilufer Elmas (Turkey) | 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 |
| Hannah Kalle Shen (Hong Kong) | def | Asima Sazanova (Kazakhstan) | 6-3, 6-4 |
| Amina Salibayeva (USA) | def | Jeongmin Im (South Korea) | 6-2, 6-2 |
| Billur Gonlusen (Turkey) | def | Abhilasha Bista (Nepal) | 6-1, 6-3 |
| Zhansaya Bakytzhan (Kazakhstan) | def | Amel Sammari (Tunisia) | 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 |
| Zoha Asim (Pakistan) | def | Sie Ding Chai (Malaysia) | 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 |
| Mina Toglukdemir (Turkey) | def | Jun Seo Lee (South Korea) | 6-4, 6-3 |
| Player | vs | Player | Score line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Min-Hung Kao (Chinese Taipei)/Araiz Malik (Pakistan) | def | Huzaima Abdul Rehman (Pakistan)/Farman Shakeel (Pakistan) | 6-4, 6-3 |
| Raahim Agha (Great Britan)/Zalan Khan (Pakistan) | def | Bilal Asim (Pakistan)/Ahmed Nael Qureshi (Pakistan) | 6-1, 6-3 |
| Iustin Belea (Romania)/Qwyn Quittner (Australia) | def | Tuna Nergizoglu (Turkey)/Emir Toglukdemir (Turkey) | 6-1, 6-4 |
| Kaun Chang Huang (Chinese Taipei)/Chung Tang (Chinese Taipei) | def | Abdullah (Pakistan)/Aoi Ooka (Japan) | 6-3, 6-3 |
| Sami Zeb (Pakistan)/Subhan Bin Salik (Pakistan) | def | Aryan Giri (Nepal)/Curtis Hong Tseng Tan (Hong Kong) | 6-3, 6-1 |
| Birtan Duran (Turkey)/Kerem Ozlale (Turkey) | def | Nikita Bortinichek (Russia)/Haktan Garayev (Azerbaijan) | 7-6 (2), 3-6, 10-7 |
