Maharashtra’s Jeh Pandole and Ahaan Bhansali were both in cracking form and hardly broke a sweat to advance to the third and final round of the boys’ under-13 qualification round in the Rs 6.5 lakh prize-money NSCI Indian Classic Junior Open Squash Championship 2016, an SRFI 4-Star sanctioned and an ASF Silver event, and which is being conducted and hosted by NSCI at their glass-back courts on Wednesday.
Jeh Pandole
In second round encounters, Jeh with a solid attacking performance did not encounter any challenge from statemate Ketan Pawankar and just dropped three points in the third game to waltz to a 11-0, 11-0, 11-3 victory in just 10 minutes.
Earlier on the same court, a charged up Ahaan was also in a domineering mood and outplayed Tamil Nadu’s Anush Kar, who could only manage to win just one point in each of the three games. Ahaan struck some fine winners to completely dominate his southern opponent and complete an 11-1, 11-1, 11-1 win a little less than 13 minutes.
Meanwhile, in one of the most exciting match of the morning, Saniya Jain of Karnataka showed nerves of steel and plenty of determination to snatch a tight win against Aishwaria Payyan of Telangana in five long drawn games in a girls’ under-13 first round match. Saniya did well to comfortably pocket the opening two games, but was unable to sustain the momentum in the third, which was a close affair and Aishwaria won over extra points. The Telangana girl won the fourth to level scores and force the decider.
In the fifth game, Saniya once again found her touch and was more consistent as she started to call the shots before winning the game to close out the match at 11-4, 11-1, 11-13, 3-11, 11-4 in over 21 minutes.
Results – Girls’ U-13 (1st round): Tamanna D (TN) bt Ishti Mehta (MH) 9-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-8; Saniya Jain (KA) bt Aishwaria Payyan (TL) 11-4, 11-1, 11-13, 3-11, 11-4; Ashmitha Kandhi Arumugam (TN) bt Tanya Bafna (MH) 11-3, 11-4, 11-3; Tanishka Singh (GA) bt Mannat Shah (MH) 11-6, 11-3, 11-4
Boys’ U-11 (2nd round): Madhav Kothari (MH) bt Aryaman Jain (RJ ) 11-1 11-5 11-0; Karan Yadav (UP) bt Siddharth Singh (RJ) 11-7 11-5 11-6; Aimaan Zakaria (MH ) bt Arjun Somani (MH) 11-1 11-2 11-4; Avalokit Singh (RJ) bt Hriday Rajani (MH ) 11-1 11-0 11-0; Adhish Kancharla (MH ) bt Anay Sawant (USA) 11-3 11-1 11-1; Ashvin Ganesh (TN ) bt Raayan Hemrajani (MH) 11-3 11-0 11-4; Udit Mishra (RJ) bt Teerth Jilka (MH) 11-7 11-8 11-8; Pranav Bhalla (KA) bt Tanish Vaidya (MH) 9-11 11-8 5-11 11-6 11-4.
Boys’ U-13 (2nd round): Adhil Mohammed Syed (TN) bt Rishit Gadre (MH) 11-2 11-4 11-3; Aditya Gupta (MH) bt Sharav Jiwrajka (MH) 11-5 11-8 11-0; Ahaan Bhansali (MH) bt Anush Kar (TN) 11-1 11-1 11-1; Arnav Tevatia (MH) bt Lakshya Gwala (RJ) 11-3 12-10 11-5; Kabir Rebello (HR) bt Abhishek Paswan (MH) 11-2 11-2 11-5; Mohit Bhatt (MH) bt Uday Rai (MH) 11-3 11-2 11-5; Aryan Tibrawalla (WB) bt Mihir Dutt Sharma (RJ) 11-2 11-5 11-2; Abhishek Yadav (UP) bt Krishna Mishra (MP) 7-11 11-7 11-9 3-11 11-9; Jeh Pandole (MH) bt Ketan Pawnarkar (MH) 11-0 11-0 11-3; Sunny Yadav (MH) bt Rhiaan Shah (MH) 11-2 11-0 11-3; Kian Lawyer (MH) bt Pratham Dave (MH)11-2 11-3 11-7; Jaivir Singh Dhillon (DL) bt Charith Reddy (TL)11-0 11-1 11-1; Raunak Singh (MH) Akshat Agarwal (WB) 11-7 11-0 11-2; Aaditey Pashine (MH) Rohan Hemrajani (MH)11-5 11-4 11-13 11-8; Siddharth Rakshit (MH) bt Lokeshkrishna K. (TN) 11-2 11-4 11-3; Arnaav Sareen (MH) bt Saurabh Dubey (UP) 11-7 11-8 11-5.
Boys’ U-15 (2nd round): Sankalp Anand (DL) beat Amaan Habibulla (MH) 11-2 11-4 11-2; Avinash Sahani (MH) bt Shubham Sehgal (UP) 11-4 11-9 11-7; Shreemann Raghavan (TN)bt Shaurya Verma (DL) 11-1 11-2 11-4; Deepak Mandal (MH) bt Mishaal Vaswani (MH ) 11-3 11-4 11-4; Rohan Padhye (MH) Ashish Tripathi (MH) 11-7 11-5 11-5; Tarun Mammen (KA) bt Adityavardhan Singh Shekhawat (MH) 11-2 11-3 11-3; Lakshit Bohra (RJ) bt Pratham Sachdeva (RJ) 11-1 11-5 11-1; Didar Rebello (HR) bt Sanath Sha (WB) 11-8 11-7 11-2; Arnav Mandhana (MH) bt Dhruv Mody (MH) 11-5 11-6 11-4; Nikhil Jason (TN) bt Abhinav Gupta (KA) 11-4 11-3 11-1; Diwakar Singh (DL) bt Yash Kothari (MH ) 11-3 11-4 11-0.
Boys’ U-17 (2nd round): Raunak Advani (MH) bt Neel Karia (MH) 11-3 11-1 11-3; Swayam Bhatia (DL) bt Vayktish (RJ) 11-7 11-7 12-10; Shlok Makhija (MH) bt Arjun Singh (MH) 8-11 8-11 14-12 15-13 11-8; Armaan Chowfin (GA) bt Sidharth Lalit Bokadia (TN) 11-2 11-3 11-2; Veer Chotrani (MH) bt Sourabh Kumar (UP) 12-14 11-7 11-9 12-10; Rahul Dharra (MH) bt Kshitiz Sehgal (UP) 11-6 11-4 11-4; Maanav Mandhian (MH) bt Aayaan Bery (DL) 10-12 11-4 11-6 7-11 11-8; Abdur Rehman (DL) bt Vikas Chand (MH) 11-4 11-5 11-6; Dev Vazirani (MH) bt Nandha Kumar (TN) 11-2 11-3 11-0; Sachin Chauhan (UP) bt Utkarsh Rastogi (DL) 11-3 11-4 11-5; Ansh Punjabi (MH) bt Armaan Aggarwal (DL) 11-5 11-6 11-2; Shloke Sahay (MH) bt Vipul Sharma (UP) 11-3 11-6 11-6; Avinash Yadav (MH) bt Ashwin Kandath (DL) 8-11 11-9 11-5 11-4; Shaan Dalal (MH) bt Rishabh Chaudhary (DL ) 12-10 11-9 8-11 11-9; Anuj Unadkat Unadkat (MH) bt Jaideep Singh Sethi (DL ) 11-8 11-8 11-9.
Boys’ U-19 (2nd round): Aadit Sahu (HR) bt Suyash Surana (MH) 11-9 11-5 11-6; Loveneet Singh Ahluwalia (DL) bt Rakesh Kumar Ganan (RJ) 11-1 11-2 11-4; Akash Ashokumar (TN) bt Adil Tibrawalla (WB) 13-11 11-8 7-11 11-6; Rahul Vasishtha (DL) bt Shreyash Daga (DL) 11-3 11-8 11-3; Jamal Sakib (UP) bt Vartik Shah (MH) 11-5 11-7 11-7; Aman Kumbhani (MH) bt Miheer Prakash (MH) 11-6 11-5 11-4; Parth Bhatia (DL) bt Ayush Udyavar (MH) 12-10 11-4 11-2; Cholarajan Nagaraj (TN) bt Gaurav Kumar (BR) 11-3 11-6 11-3; Pradeep Chaudhary (MH) bt Naseem Ali (AP) 11-8 11-2 8-11 11-4..