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Muzammil Murtaza, Sarah Mehboob emerge title winners of Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan National Ranking Tennis Tournament 2020

Emerging Muzammil Murtaza and Sarah Mahboob bagged the men’s and women’s titles of Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan National Ranking Tennis Tournament 2020 at the PTF Complex, Islamabad.

The 6th edition of Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan National Ranking Tennis Tournament concluded successfully with Muzammil Murtaza and Sarah Mahboob bagged the men’s and women’s titles at the PTF Complex, Islamabad.

Emerging Muzammil Murtaza from Multan consistently stroked power shots at Aqeel who could only return a defensive ball. Muzammil showed his class by hitting soft balls close to the baseline to take the set in the tie-break and narrowly 7-6 (7-5).

 In the second set, however, Aqeel used his experience to test the patience of Muzammil by winning the second set easily at 6-3. Muzammil came into the 3rd set with renewed determination and gave no change to the top seeded Aqeel to clinch the 3rd set comfortably at 6-4.

Winner of recently concluded Benazir Bhutto Shaheed National Tennis Championships 2020, Sarah Mehboob defeated the only tennis player, who won all the three gold medals on offer in the 33rd National Games tennis event, Ushna Suhail 7-6 (7-3), 5-7, 6-4 in another well-fought three-setter to take the women’s title.

Meanwhile, in the seniors 45 plus doubles final, Mehmood Khan and Azeem Khan defeated Rashid Malik and Fayyaz Khan 6-2, 4-6 (10-5).

Mr. Ayman Ismael, CFO Eighteen was the Guest of Honor. Mr. Anwar Saifullah Khan graced the occasion as Chief Guest to witness the finals and distributed prizes among the winners.

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