NSCI& ISP Junior and Doubles Squash Championship
The top two seeds Tanay Punjab and Deepak Mandal, both found the going tough before winning their respective boys’ under-15 first round matches in the Rs one lakh prize-money NSCI& ISP Junior and Doubles Squash Championship, organized by the Indian Squash Professional (ISP) at the NSCI Club courts. Top-seeded Tanay overcame a fighting Vikas Chand 11-9, 11-6 and second seed Deepak managed to prevail over Ashish Tripathi 11-8 11-6,11-8 to advance to the second round.
In the most interesting match of the day, Pawan Jagdish Ravish and Chandan Kahar were engaged in a keen tussle before the former managed to pull through winning in three games at 14-12, 8-11, 15-13.
Meanwhile in boys’ under-21 first round action, Divit Poojary got the better of Shourya Agarwal 11-5, 11-9 and Miheer Prakash prevailed over Pravin Shekhawat 11-4, 12-10. Also advancing to the second round was Aazad Singh who defeated Vishal Sharma 11-2, 11-1 and Ajay Dheshmukh who scored a 11-9, 11-3 win over Yuvnsh Khokhani.
Results –
Boy’ under-13: Rohan Hemrajani bt Aniket Iyer 11-7, 11-2; Ajay Dalchand Gupta bt Vardhan Anuj Munot 11-6, 11-1; Om Jagdish Srmwal bt Aaryan Deepak Agarwal 11-1, 11-1; Rishit Shailesh Gadre bt Lakshit Anil Sanklecha 11-6, 11-7; Advait Iyer bt Pranit Dua 11-1, 11-5; 3-4-Shreyas Navin Mehta bt Siddharth Rakshit 11-1, 11-2; 3-4Aaryaman Jaising bt Aditya Umesh Belwalkar 11-2, 11-7; Mishaal Deepak Vaswani bt Aniket rajesh Khetan 11-0, 11-0; Aryan Ajit Panicker bt Bhagwan Manoj Das 11-7, 14-12; Harshraj Jagatraj Yadav bt Mannan R Rajani 11-1, 11-1; Uday Jagdish Pandey bt Anvit Sanyal 11-3, 11-6; 2-Paarth Niraj Ambani bt Aditya Anil Shetty 11-2, 11-1; 1-Aakash Gupta bt Rohan Hemrajani 11-1, 11-2.
Boys’ under-15: Vikas Chand bt Atharva Ketan Belsare 11-6 11-3; Krish Shah bt Varun Shah 11-1 11-1; Pawan Jagdish Ravish bt Chandan Kahar 14-12 8-11 15-13; Yohann Fali Poncha bt Aryamaan Adarsh Mimani 11-2 11-6; Arnav Manish Mandhana bt Mohit ramesh Tanwar 11-6 11-6; Avinash Sahani bt Akrur Kamal Khetan 11-0 11-0; 3-4-Avinash Yadav bt Siddhanth Nitin Beri 11-4 11-3; Aakash R Rajbhar bt Kaushal Sagar Kirpekar 11-3 11-0; 1-Tanay Kartik Punjabi bt Vikas Chand 11-9 11-6; Vishal Radheshyam Rajbhar bt Lakhendar jogendar Rathore 11-3 11-9; Araash Mehta bt Mir Miten Mehta 11-6 11-3; Rohan Mukul Padhye bt Niall Shah 11-4 11-1; Aman Rajeev Punjabi bt Pradeep Ramkaran Pal 11-1 11-0; Shresht rakesh Khetan bt Vansh Kamal Rawtani 11-8 11-6; 2-Deepak B Mandal bt Ashish Tripathi 11-8 11-6; 3-4-Yash Shailesh Dhairyawan bt Rahul vijendar Dharra 11-3 11-7.
Boys’ under-21: Divit Poojary bt Shourya Girish Agarwal 11-5 11-9; Miheer Prakash bt Pravin Ramsingh Shekhawat 11-4 12-10; Aazad Singh bt Vishal Vijay Sharma 11-2 11-1; Ajay Dheshmukh bt Yuvnsh Kalpesh Khokhani 11-9 11-3.