The top two seeded players, Aryaman Adik and Ajit Sharma recorded fluent wins to breeze into the boys’ under-19 quarter-final round 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.
Aaryaman Adik
In second round matches, the number one seed, Aryaman did not have to exert too much to sideline Chetan Singh romping to a 11-1, 11-4 win, while second seed Ajit dropped just two points as he waltzed to a 11-1, 11-1 victory against Rupesh Parmar to book their berths in the last 8.
Joining them in the quarter-finals, was the joint third-fourth seeds, Veer Chotrani and Tushar Shahani. Veer did not have to break into a sweat. He was awarded a walkover as his opponent Manjeet Gupta did not report for the match. Tushar tamed Dhananjay Bansal 11-4, 11-3 in other second round matches.
In second round matches involving unseeded players, Sourabh Lekhwar eased past Sagar Gal 11-2, 11-2 and Harshvardhan Wadhwa outplayed Divit Poojary 11-1 11-1.
In boys’ under-17 events, second Pintoo Rai was in total control against unseeded Ravish Virani winning at 11-1 11-3, while Niraj Kabra got the better of Shubh Agarwal also in straight games at 11-6, 11-7.
Results – Boys’ under-17 (2nd round): Arjun Singh bt Ajay Dheshmukh 11-3 11-5; 3-4-Vivaan Jaikishan w/o Rahul Mehta; 3-4-Shlok Makhija bt Ameen Devani 11-0 11-3; Neel Joshi w/o Anuj Unadkat; Niraj Kabra bt Shubh Agarwal 11-6 11-7; 2-Pintoo Rai bt Ravish Virani 11-1 11-3.
Boys’ under-19 (2nd round):Pradeep Chaudhary bt Miheer Prakash 11-2 11-6; 3-4-Veer Chotrani w/oManjeet Gupta; 3-4-Tushar Shahani bt Dhananjay Bansal 11-4 11-3; Sourabh Lekhwar bt Sagar Gal 11-2 11-2; 1-Aryaman Adik bt Chetan Singh 11-1 11-4; Harshvardhan Wadhwa bt Divit Poojary 11-1 11-1; 2-Ajit Sharma bt Rupesh Parmar 11-2 11-4.
Boys’ under-15 (2nd round): Dhruv Mody bt Deepak Rai 11-4 11-3; Vikas Chand bt Lakhendar Rathore 11-6 11-7; Druv Vazirani w/o Atreya Gopalka; Araash Mehta w/o Kaushal Kirpekar; Ashish Tripathi bt Aryamaan Mimani 11-0 11-6; Aman Punjabi bt Vansh Rawtani 11-1, 11-2; 3-4-Deepak B Mandal bt Aaryaman Jaising 11-4 11-5; Vishal Rajbhar bt Naveen Sharma 11-2 11-3; Yash Dhairyawan bt Parin Shah 11-0 11-0; Avinash Sahani bt Vedant Ambani 11-9 11-6; Vedant Iyer bt Vaibhav Arora 12-10 11-8; 1-Advait Adik bt Dhruv Mody 11-1 11-2.
Professionals (2nd round): Suraj Bhatt bt Jainendra Bhandari 11-6 11-6; Aniket Mohite bt Pratik Shah 11-1 11-3; Prashant Mohite bt Abu Momin 11-2 11-5.