Khyber Pakhtunkhwa table tennis players have qualified for the finals of the ongoing Inter-Provincial Table Tennis Championship being played at Karachi.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Girl’s team defeated Gilgit-Baltistan while the men’s team also defeated Gilgit-Baltistan. Boy’s and Girl’s teams from Pun-jab, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir are par-ticipating in the Inter-Provincial U17 Table Tennis Tournament being played under the aegis of Paki-stan sports board at Karachi.
In the Girl’s event, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa women reached the semi-finals by beating the rival teams. KP’s Habba, Umm Habiba and Khadija de-feated Gilgit-Baltistan’s girls in the semi-final match and reached the final. Mansoor, Abbas and Shayan of KP defeated Gilgit-Baltistan for the semi-finals.
In the final, they will face Sindh, while in the semi-finals, the boys’ match will be played against Azad Kashmir. Coaches Amna Khan and Absar Ali described the performance of the players as satisfac-tory and expressed the hope that both Khyber Pakhtunkhwa boys and girls will be able to win the champion trophy.—APP
