Top seed Sharan Punjabi along with second seed Aditya Chandani stormed into the quarter-finals of the boys’ under-11 event of the Indian Squash Professional (ISP) organised Rs one lakh prize-money Otters Club – ISP Classic Squash tournament, and played at the Otters Club courts, Bandra. This is the 120th tournament to be conducted by ISP.
Sharan playing aggressively had no problems to get past Arhaan Penwala in straight game winning at 11-3, 11-2, while Aditya enjoyed a more relaxed outing and dropped just one point to power past Anshul Rao 11-0, 11-1.
Meanwhile in the competition for professionals, the number one seed Sanjay Pawar did not go flat out but still managed to coast to a fleunt 11-6, 11-5 win against Manoj Manjarekar in a third round match and book his place in the quarter-finals.
Joining Pawar in the last eighth round was Mayur Jadhav who staged a grand recovery after losing the first game to overcome Prashant More 5-11, 11-9, 11-6 in another third round match.
Results – Mix boys’ & girls’ under-9 (2nd round): Agastya Bansal bt Vivaan Sagar 11-4 11-5; 3-4-Dhruv Khanna bt Varun Shah 11-4 11-5; 3-4-Anshuman Jaising bt Aelina Shah 11-4 11-0; Yugant Gupta bt Krishiv Gupta 11-2 11-0; Arjun Morey bt Pia Singh 11-8 11-7; 2-Raayan Hemrajani bt Proneet Ghosh 11-4 11-3.
Boys’ under-11 (2nd round): 1-Sharan Punjabi bt Arhaan Penwala 11-3 11-2; Adhish Kancharla bt Aditya Lokhande 11-1 11-5; Prakash Auhji bt Amar Vaid 11-0 11-1; 3-4-Vivaan Bhatia w/o Raghav Parthasarathy; 3-4-Ekambir Singh w/o Aniket Shetty; Aaditey Pashine bt Aayush Naik 11-0 11-0; Hunarpal Kohli bt Divyesh Chakravarty 11-0 11-1; 2-Aditya Chandani bt Anshul Rao 11-0, 11-1.
Professionals (3rd round): 1-Sanjay Pawar bt Manoj Manjarekar 11-6 11-5; Virendra Pawar bt Javed Shah 11-8 14-12; Mayur Jadhav bt Prashant More 5-11 11-9 11-6; Ajay Pawar w/o Reyaansh Jadhav; Vishant Salvi bt Ravi Navle 11-7 5-11 11-7.