JVPG-SRAM Winter Squash Open
Nikita Joshi and Neel Joshi both had easy first round outings in the Open Under-21 singles event on the opening day of the Rs two lakh prize-money JVPG-SRAM Winter Squash Open 2016, sponsored by SYSKA LED and played at Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana Club.
In first round encounters, Nikita was in complete control as eased past Rohit Mishra 11-0, 11-6 while Neel also had things much his own way and tamed Kaival Shah 11-3, 11-1.
Meanwhile in Men’s singles first round matches, Rahul Arora and Druv Vazirani recorded contrasting victories. Arora hardly encountered much resistance from Rohit Prabhu and cruised to a fluent 11-2, 11-3 win while Vazirani beat back a spirited fight from Prashant Sagar before pulling through in three games winning 11-8, 7-11, 12-10.
In other men’s matches, Aryan Parekh defeated Amandeep Boparai 11-3, 11-8 and Aditya Jaiswal tamed Virendra Pawar 11-2 11-3 to advance to the second round.
Results – Open Under-21 (1st round): Nikita Joshi bt Rohit Mishra 11-0 11-6; Neel Joshi bt Kaival Shah 11-3 11-1; Araash Mehta bt Divit Poojary 11-6 11-4; Miheer Prakash bt Vikas Mohite 11-2 11-3; Chetan Singh bt Shrey Mehta 12-10 11-6; Kumansh Furia bt Pradnesh More 11-7 11-4; Rahul Baitha bt Varun Gupta 11-5 11-8; Saisha Gupta bt Simar Tathgir 11-0 11-2; Tanay Punjabi bt Uttanshu Patel 11-3 11-5.
Boys’ Under-13 (1st round): Vivaan Bhatia bt Arjun Morey 11-0 11-0; Abhishek Paswan bt Ranbir Minocha 11-9 11-2; Arhaan Penwala bt Vedant Chheda 12-10 11-5; Saisha Gupta bt Geet Sahni 11-2 11-6; Aaryan Agarwal bt Sameer Sharma 11-0 11-2; Arin Khot bt Hunarpal Singh Kohli 11-5 14-12; Raayan Hemrajani bt Zahaan Bafna 11-9 11-6.
Men’s singles (1st round): Rahul Arora bt Rohit Prabhu 11-2 11-3; Aryan Parekh bt Amandeep Boparai 11-3 11-8; Druv Vazirani bt Prashant Sagar 11-8 7-11 12-10; Suraj Bhatt bt Mahendra Salvi 11-4 11-5; Nikhil Naralkar bt Vikas Mohite 11-2 11-6; Awdesh Yadav bt Ramesh Singh 11-6 11-1; Shloke Sahay bt Vallabh Chawla 11-7 11-2; Aditya Jaiswal bt Virendra Pawar 11-2 11-3; Khuman Singh Bhati bt Ajay Pawar 11-7 11-7.