17 Facts About Aqeel Khan

Aqeel Khan is the current Pakistani number one and National Champion.

Aqeel Khan is coached by Pakistani tennis coach Jamil Khan, who is his father.

Aqeel Khan holds the record for playing the most ties for Pakistan in the Davis Cup, and has the best doubles partnership, with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, for Pakistan.

Aqeel Khan has another youth tennis playing brother called Yasir Khan.

Aqeel Khan began playing tennis at the age of 9, whilst attending school in Karachi to avoid doing duties as a ball boy.

Aqeel Khan began playing junior tennis in 1993 at the Pakistan International Junior Championships.

Aqeel Khan then went on to win two of the three legs of the ITF Satellite Championship in Pakistan, and finished off by winning the Pakistan Satellite Masters in Karachi.

Aqeel Khan won a singles Futures tournament in Hyderabad, India, and won the Indian DSCL National tennis championship in New Delhi.

Aqeel Khan got to two doubles Futures Finals in Iran.

Aqeel Khan won Bronze in the Tennis singles event at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Mecca, Saudi Arabia 2005, where he won Gold with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in the doubles, and Gold in team event.

In 2007, Aqeel Khan won a futures tournament in Ludhiana, India.

Aqeel Khan represented Pakistan at the Asian tennis championship in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, seeded sixth, but lost in the second round.

Aqeel Khan then went on to win his second futures title of the year at Lahore, Pakistan.

Aqeel Khan went to New Delhi, India to play in his first Challenger level tournament, however he was knocked out in both singles and doubles in the first round.

Aqeel Khan reached the doubles final with Malaysian Si Yew Ming, but were defeated by the first seeds.

Aisam's decision to play at an ATP tournament was criticised by Aqeel Khan who felt they were let down by him.

Aqeel Khan took part in the Commonwealth Games where he reached the second round in the singles and the first round in the doubles.