CWG table tennis: Fahad Khawaja moves to pre-quarter final stage.

BIRMINGHAM -- Pakistan's top paddler Fahad Khawaja will play against England's Paul Drinkhall in round of 32 of table tennis, men's singles event of Commonwealth Games at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre on Friday.

The two-time South Asian Table Tennis Championship silver-medalist and the reigning national champion pulled off three comprehensive wins in Group 15 of table tennis event on late Thursday to advance to the pre-quarter final stage.

The 22-year-old Peshawar-born paddler overcame Guyana's Christopher Franklin 4-0 in the opening fixture. In the second encounter, he brushed aside Bangladesh's Mohtasin Ahmed 4-1.

In the last group outing, he outwitted Darren Douglas of Trinidad and Tobago.

Fahad has been training in Spain for around three weeks before arriving here to represent Pakistan in...

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