Second seed Ganesh Kadam beat back a solid challenge from third seed Anshul Goyal to record a hard-fought 4-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-7, 11-7 win in the semi-final round of the Men’s Open event of the Rs 75,000 prize money JVPG-ISP Squash Championship, the 116th tournament to be organised by the Indian Squash Professionals (ISP), and played at the JVPG squash courts.
Ganesh Kadam
In the final, Kadam will take on fourth seed Nilesh Pal who prevailed over unseeded Pradeep Chaudhary also in five games, winning at 11-5, 8-11, 11-5, 2-11, 11-7 in the second semi-final.
Meanwhile, in the Men’s Top-8 competition, the top two seeds Abhishek Agarwal and Tushar Kavi Shahani easily won their respective semi-final matches to set up a clash for the title. The number one seed Agarwal sidelined fourth seed Karan Mirchandani 11-6, 11-5, 11-8, while Shahani tamed sixth seed Shashi Pandey 11-6, 11-4, 11-6.
In the most interesting match of the day, the joint 3/4-seed Sachin Jadhav scored an upset win against second Anil Bhagat posting a 9-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-6 victory in a Men’s Over 35 semi-final match. In the final, Jadhav will take on top seed Amitpal Kohli who comfortable defeated 3/4-seed Panji Grainger 11-5, 11-5, 11-7.
Semi-final Results – Men’s Over 35: 1-Amitpal Kohli bt 3 /4-Panji Grainger 11-5, 11-5, 11-7; 3 /4-Sachin Jadhav bt 2-Anil Bhagat 9-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-6.
Men’s Open: 4-Nilesh Pal bt Pradeep Chaudhary 11-5, 8-11, 11-5, 2-11, 11-7; 2-Ganesh Kadam bt 3-Anshul Goyal 4-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-7, 11-7.
Men’s Doubles Handicap: Prashant More /Virendra Pawar bt Ansh Sheety /Ansh Punjabi 11-15, 15-10, 15-9; Rohit Kadam /Bhavesh Shah bt Vijay Darak /Inderpal Singh 15-9, 10-15, 15-10.
Men’s Top-8: 2-Tushar Kavi Shahani bt 6-Shashi Pandey 11-6, 11-4, 11-6; 1-Abhishek Agarwal bt 4-Karan Mirchandani 11-6, 11-5, 11-8.
Doubles Top-8: 4-Sanjay Pawar/ Samir Mistry bt 1-Siddarth Samantray /Abhishek Agarwal 15-8, 15-10; 3-Sachin Jadhav/Amitpal Kohli bt 2-Deepesh Borhade/Vijay Waghela 15-8, 15-6.