{"id":5542,"date":"2025-03-21T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2025-03-21T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:40:12","slug":"mikaeel-ali-baig-reaches-final-of-itf-j-30-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/2025\/03\/21\/mikaeel-ali-baig-reaches-final-of-itf-j-30-colombo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaeel Ali Baig Reaches Final of ITF J-30 Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s rising tennis star, Mikaeel Ali Baig, has stormed into the final of the ITF Junior Tennis Tournament J-30 Colombo Sri  Lanka after a stunning victory over Singapore\u2019s Luke Koh, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 the tournament\u2019s No.1 seed and world-ranked No-442.<br \/><br \/>Mikaeel, who was a key member of Pakistan\u2019s Junior Davis Cup team that triumphed in the Pre-Qualifying event of Asia Oceania in Kuching, Malaysia, last week.<br \/><br \/>Mr. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi- President of the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF), extended his heartfelt congratulations to Mikaeel on his outstanding win. He praised the remarkable progress of Pakistan\u2019s junior players, emphasizing that their international performances reflect a promising future for tennis in Pakistan. \u201cThis is a breath of fresh air for Pakistan tennis, and I am confident that our junior players will continue to make the nation proud,\u201d he said. Mr. Aisam wished Mikaeel the best of luck for the final.<br \/><br \/>Col. Zia-ud-Din Tufail, Secretary General of PTF, also congratulated Mikaeel on his remarkable achievement and wished him success in the final.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s rising tennis star, Mikaeel Ali Baig, has stormed into the final of the ITF Junior Tennis Tournament J-30 Colombo Sri Lanka after a stunning victory over Singapore\u2019s Luke Koh, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 the tournament\u2019s No.1 seed and world-ranked No-442. Mikaeel, who was a key member of Pakistan\u2019s Junior Davis Cup team that triumphed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-international","9":"category-national","10":"category-example-3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}