Tag: Ranking

Glory to top seeds in National Ranking Tennis

LAHORE - All the seeded tennis players of the country taking part in the Atlas Honda Tennis National Ranking Cup marched into the next round on day two at the K-21 Model Town Club here on Tuesday.
Qualifying matches were played on Tuesday as a large number of players has registered for the event in all the categories. Rao Akbar Latif said: "It is a matter of great honour for our club that players from all the four provinces are taking part in Cup to improve their national

National Ranking Tennis begins

LAHORE - The 2nd Honda Atlas National Ranking Tennis Championship rolled into action here at the K-21 Model Town Sports Club courts. All the top ranked players of the country are taking part in the championship, which was inaugurated my Mian Mohammad Aamer, former city nazim.
An exhibition match marked the start of the event. The week-long event is also likely to feature Pakistan's top tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq as guest. Apart from Honda, Makro and Hanif Rajpoot are the

Aisam improves doubles ranking

LAHORE - Pakistan tennis ace Aisamul Haq Qureshi has reached his career-best ranking in doubles after participating in the ATP Masters Championships in Miami. Aisam, who has returned from the USA, improved his world ranking to 12 in the ATP double lists.
He will fly to Europe on April 8 to participate in various ATP events, including the French Open and Wimbledon. On his arrival, Aisam said that his first priority is to lift the country's flag sky high.
"Wherever I go, the

GM falls just shy of Toyota in 2010 sales ranking

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corporation kept its spot at the top of the global sales ranking in 2010, outselling by less than 30,000 units as the US rival achieved faster growth in the world's two biggest markets. Toyota's global sales, including mini-vehicle unit Daihatsu Motor and truck unit Hino Motors, grew eight percent to 8.418 million vehicles, it said in a statement, helping it sustain its number one standing for the third straight year. GM, which lost the crown in 2008 for the first

PCB introduces umpires ranking system

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board, in a series of experimental steps to improve its domestic structure, has enforced a new policy of grading the performance of umpires. Following complaints of sub-standard umpiring in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final, a senior official of the board confirmed that they were already experimenting with a new grading system for umpires. "Yes, the umpiring was not up to the mark, but we have already enforced a system where the umpires getting bad reports

Aisam improves on career-high ranking

LAHORE: Pakistan tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq Qurieshi has improved his international ranking as he reached the 17th position in the latest doubles ranking.
Their doubles world ranking also improved after they reached the final of St Petersburg Open in Russia. Aisam obtained 150 points from the 250 level tournament.
The pair of Bopanna and Aisam has clinched back the sixth position of the ATP teams ranking, which they had lost due to their early exit at the Moscow Open. With