VASIND (Thane): Ranjit Singh and Urvashi Joshi have been given the pride of place in their respective men’s and women’s singles events in the 7th JSW-All India Sunil Verma Squash Championship to be held in the premises of JSW Squash Academy, Vasind from tomorrow. This year the organizers have, apart from men, women and men over 35 and 45 events, included boys and girls in the under-19, under-17, under-15, under-13 and under-11 categories.
Rahul Baitha has been top seeded in the boys under-19, whileAmira Singh heads the girls under-17 singles. The event, being a 4-Star national event held under the auspices of Squash Racket Federation of India, carries Rs 9.5 lakh prize money and has attracted over 300 players n various categoris. The event held annually is in memory of their late coach and mentor Sunil Verma. Incidentally, Jindal Steel, who have been promoting squash in a big way over the years, have 100 players from their academy, who too, will be seen in action.
The seedings are:
MEN: 1. Ranjit Singh; 2. Jamal Sakib; 3-4: Ravi Dixit/Sandeep Jangra. 5-8: Abhinav Sinha, Ashish Keskar, Sandeep Paswan, Vijay Kumar.
WOMEN: 1. Urwashi Joshi; 2. Sanika Choudhari; 3-4: Jaya Pandey/Riya Sisodia.
MEN: (Over 35): 1. Amitpal kohli; 2. Abheek Datta. (Over 45): Jehangir Surti; 2. Sharad Kaku. PRO: 1. Sanjah Pawar; 2. Suraj Bhatta.
BOYS U-19: 1.Rahul Baitha ; 2. Anuj Unadkat; 3-4: Avinash Yadav/Vivaan Jaikishan. 5-8: Arjun Singh, Jaideep Singh Sethi, Shloke Sahay, Suraj Chand.
Boys U-17: 1. Deepak Mandal; 2. Shreemann Raghavan. Girls U-17: 1 Amira Singh; 2. Anannya Morey.
Boys U-15: 1 Paarth Ambani; 2. Rutva Samant. Girls U-15: 1.Ansya Patel; 2. POooja Arthi R.
Boy U-13: 1 Arihant Ks; 2. Ayaan Vaziralli.Girls U- 13: 1 Kushboo; 2. Aleya Masand.
Boys U-11: 1 Anshuman Jaising; 2. Subhash Choudhary. Girls U-11: 1. Anahat Singh; 2. Akanksha Gupta.