Favourite and top seeds Abhishek Pradhan, ranked No 5 in the country and India No.2 Urwashi Joshi lived upto their reputations, while clinching their respective men’s and women’s titles in the 8th JSW-All India Sunil Verma Memorial Junior & Senior Open Squash Championships, held at Jindal Squash Academy, Vasind (Thane) here today.
Champions- bearded Abhishek Pradhan and Urwashi Joshi (centre) along with other age group winners pose with the JSW officials after JSW- ALL INDIA SQUASH OPEN.
Abhishek, like in his earlier encounter with namesake Abhishek (Agarwal) in the Goregaon Squash tourney, repeated his domination over India No.8 and triumphed 11-9, 11-4, 2-11, 11-8. While Urwashi condfidentally overcame her statemate Sanika Choudhari , seeded second behind her, 11-5, 16-14, 11-9.
With Maharashtra, winning nine out of 13 finals, the state emerged as supreme power in the country. Saurabh Nayar (men’s over 35), Prithvi Singh (boys under-19), both from Chandigarh, and Delhi’s Amira Singh (girls under-19) and Anahat Singh (girls under-15) took the honours in their respective finals.
Results of all the finals:
Men: (1)-Abhishek Pradhan (MH) bt (2)-Abhishek Agarwal (MH) 11-9, 11-4, 2-11, 11-8.
Men (Over 35): (2)- Saurabh Nayar (CH) bt (3/4)-Sanjay Pawar (MH) 8-11, 11-9, 11-9,11-8.
Women: (1)- Urwashi Joshi (MH) bt (2)-Sanika Choudhari (MH) 11-5, 16-14, 11-9.
Boys (U-19): (1)-Prithvi Singh (CH) bt (2)- Suraj Chand (MH) 11-7, 11-7, 11-3.
Girls (U-19): ; (2)- Amira Singh (DL) bt (3/4)- Trina Iris (TN) 11-6, 11-4, 11-4.
Boys (U-17): (1)-Mohit Bhatt (MH) bt (3/4)-Aaryaman Jaising ( MH) 15-13, 11-3, 11-1.
Girls (U-17): (2)-Aryaa Ogale (MH) bt (3/4)- Sunita Patel (MH) 11-9, 11-3, 11-7.
Boys (U-15): (1)-Sharan Punjabi (MH) bt (2)-Rachit Kumar Shailya (UP) 9-11, 11-1, 11-7, 11-7.
Girls (U-15): Anahat Singh (DL) (1)-Aaryaa Belsare (MH) 11-4, 11-6, 11-4.
Boys (U-13): Vedant Chheda (MH) bt (3/4)- Arjun Somani (MH) 11-5, 11-8, 6-11, 9-11,11-9.
Girls (U-13): (1)- Khushboo (UP) bt Akanksha Gupta (MH) 14-12, 11-8, 11-1.
Boys (U-11): (1)-Siddhant Sharma (UP) bt (2)-Ishaan Dabke (MH) 11-9, 11-4, 11-7.
Girls (U-11): (1)-Sehar Nayar (CH) bt (2)-Vyomika Khandelwal (MH) 11-7, 11-3, 11-7.
PRO COACH: (1)-Laxman Joshi (MH) bt Deepesh Borhade (MH) 11-7, 12-10, 11-4.