Big win for Sabban

Manama : Umm As Sabban defeated Amwaj 2-0 in Group C in the third round of group matches in the RJ Investments Holding Group Team Doubles Tennis Tournament 2017 at the Bahrain Tennis Club in Juffair under the patronage and head of the group, Rashad Janahi.

In the opening rubber, Mohammed Sayed and Ahmed Omran defeated Yousef Fakhro and Emanuel 9-6 games and Sundara Ram and Ammar Al Shaikh completed victory with a closely fought 9-8(7) win over Emad Ali and Faisal Sharaf.

In Group A action, Qassar Al Qulayah beat Al Muharraq 2-1, with the winning team of Hussain Nashaba and Sami Dannish losing the opening rubber 2-9 to Nalan Chokappa and Mohammed Khonji.

Salman Hassan and Yousef Khonji then levelled the match with a 9-0 victory over Khalid Ghuloom and Bikash Rout and Hassan and Nashaba secured a tie-break win with a 7-4, 7-2 result against Chokappa and Ghuloom.

The championship features 15 teams named after Bahrain’s islands split into three groups of five teams playing on a round-robin basis with Semi-finals set for February 1 with the three group winners and the best second placed team qualifying with the Final set for February 4.

Other results:

Group A:

1) Umm Al Nassam bt Bahrain 2-1

2) Abdul Rahman Janhi/Matar Yousef bt Ahmed Qaed/Hussain Al 9-2

3) Aziz Janahi/Ghulam Rafeeq lost to Kadri Rizk/Roni Cifra 0-9

4) A R Janahi/A Janahi bt K Rizk/H Ali 7-5, 7-4

Group B:

1) Al Nabih Saleh bt Mashtan 2-1

2) Ashraf Atabani/Ebrahim Qaed bt Mohammed Bu Hassan/Farzan Kazerooni 9-1

3) Taalal Redha/Redha/Yousef Al Goud lost to Mahmood Janahi/Ahmed Mahmood 3-9

4) Y Al Goud/A Atabani bt M Janahi/M Nu Hassan 7-3, 7-3.

Group C:

1) Nurana bt Sitra 2-0

2) Ali Al Asfoor/Issa Al Sammak bt Nilesh Parmar/Mohammed Yousef 9-1

3) Mohammed Mosawi/Venkat Subramaniyan bt Ahmed Jaffar/Hussain Al Hassan 9-3