Amit Gajaria and Ansh Punjabi worked hard to advance to the third round of Men’s Open event of the Rs 75,000 prize money JVPG-ISP Squash Championship, which is the 116th tournament to be organised by the Indian Squash Professionals (ISP).
In second round matches, Gajria lost the first game, but fought back to overcame Mishal Mehta 5-11, 11-9, 11-9, while Punjabi also dropped the opening game against Manoj Manjrekar, but managed to win the next two to record a 8-11, 11-7, 11-9 victory at the Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana courts.
Meanwhile, Maunil Vora had quite a comfortable outing defeating Yash Dhairyawan in straight games at 11-6, 11-3 to also progress to the third round.
Men’s Open (Round 2): Pradeep Chotelal Chaudhary bt Ajay C Pawar 7-11, 11-5, 11-7; Pradeep Paswan bt Ansh Suresh Shetty 5-11, 11-7, 11-9; Amit Gajria bt Mishal Mehta 5-11, 11-9, 11-9; Saransh Srivastava bt Aditya Umesh Bhide 11-2, 11-9; Maunil Vora bt Yash Dhairyawan 11-6, 11-3; Nilesh Pal bt Pradeep Paswan 11-8, 11-8; Ansh Punjabi bt Manoj Manjrekar 8-11, 11-7, 11-9.
Round 1: Ajay C Pawar bt Chintan Jatin Mehta 11-4, 11-7; Arjun Ajay Lalchandani bt Rohan Punamiya 11-7, 4-11, 11-8; Pintoo Jairam Rai bt Karan Dipen Parikh 11-5, 11-5; Prajyot Balaram Kavinkar bt Neel Bhadresh Shah 11-8, 11-1; Aditya Umesh Bhide bt Urmil Sodha 11-8, 9-11, 11-9; Yash Shailesh Dhairyawan bt Vikas Virendra Sharma 12-10, 7-11, 7-11; Sandeep Vaman Parab bt Jaikrishnan Menon 11-2,11-5; Ansh Sushil Punjabi bt Arjun Aditya Singh 11-9, 11-6; Shilpan Patel bt Siddhant Ameria 11-6, 11-7; Vaibhav Satle bt Kautik Naresh Shah 11-1, 11-7; Rahul Arora bt Harish Mohan 11-0, 11-3.
Men’s doubles handicap (round 1): Vasant Bhadra /Pankaj Gauba bt Sudesh Mishra /Anil Khot 15-6, 15-7; Kishore Vanwari /Rajesh Rajani bt Urmil Sodha /Rohan Punamiya 17-14, 15-12; Prashant More /Virendra Pawar bt Aditya Patil /Akash Vanjani 15-13, 17-16; Panji Grainger / Prabkirat Sanghera bt UdayChand Rai / Saurabh Lekhwar 15-6, 15-12; Vijay Darak / Inderpal Singh bt Vishal Jadhav / Kaushik Pajwani 15-13, 15-13.