MAHESH MANGAOKAR
LOSES TO JAN VAN OF BELGIUM IN THE QUARTER FINALS
Final: [4] Richie Fallows (ENG) bt [3] Kristian Frost
(DEN) 11-9, 11-8, 11-4 (39m)
Quarter-finals: [8] Jan van den Herrewegen (BEL) bt [1]
Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND) 11-9, 11-7, 7-11, 6-11, 11-8
(82m)
1st round: [1] Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND) bt Tom Ford
(ENG) 11-3, 11-4, 11-4 (28m)
Utkarsh Baheti of Jaipur who is
training under International player Surbhi Misra won
silver medal in Boys under - 13 category in French
Junior Open Squash tournament held at Lille, France from
20-23 February 2014.
Utkarsh beat Fabien Teyssera of
France in 2nd round with score of 11-5,11-3,11-2. He
played pre quarters defeating France player Harold
Castiaux score of 11-4,11-2,11-4. In quarter - finals
Utkarsh faced England player Jack Mitter defeating him
with score 11-9,11-3,11-2. In semi finals he defeated
Wales player Srikar Mumidi 11-3,11-3,8-11,16-14. Utkarsh
lost in the finals to James carter of England 8-11
/11-7/ 11-1/11-6 thus getting silver medal
Mahesh 3rd PSA title in
Nimes, France: 6 January 2014
India’s sensational teenager Mahesh
Mangaonkar began the New Year with the first title of
the year when he despatched top-seeded Scot Greg Lobban
in the final of the Open du Gard, the PSA Challenger 5
squash event marking its sixth year at Squash des Arenes
in Nimes, France.
Third seed Mangaonkar made his
breakthrough in the semi-finals when he crushed
second-seeded Kuwaiti Ammar Altamimi in just 28 minutes,
Now in the fourth Tour final of his career, the
19-year-old from Mumbai had a point to prove when he
faced Lobban, a 21-year-old from Edinburgh enjoying his
eighth Tour final.
Mangaonkar's success in last
month's Imet Open in Slovakia came after a five-game
final victory over Lobban - the result of which is that
both now players share a World No.82 ranking.
The
win, his third on the PSA Tour, also set up a nine-match
winning streak for the Mumbai teenager - the longest of
his career.
Aditya lost to Rudi Rohrmuller
in the semifinals of French Junior Open Squash
Championships
While England's Millie
Tomlinson was the anticipated winner of the women's
title, Lucas Serme provided unexpected domestic men's
success for the second year in a row in the French
Junior U19 Open, one of the leading events on
the European Squash Federation Junior Circuit, staged
in Lille.
It was third time lucky for the
organisers of the Women's Internationaux de Creteil when
home town star Camille Serme upset second seed Joshna
Chinappa in straight games to provide local interest in
the final of the $12,000 WISPA World Tour squash event
in its third year at Centre Marie Therese Eyquem in
Creteil, in the outskirts of the French capital Paris,
for the first time.
Top seeded Italian Manuela
Manetta, the 2007 champion was taken the full distance
by Indian star Dipika Pallikal before beating the
17-year-old fifth seed 11-6, 11-7, 9-11, 8-11, 13-11.
Semis: Dipika Pallikal lost to
Manuela Manetta 6-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-13 Joshna
Chinappa lost to Camille Serme 5-11, 7-11, 3-11 Quarters: Dipika Pallikal bt Laura
Hill 8-11, 11-6, 11-1, 11-6 Joshna Chinappa bt Nour
El Tayeb 8-11, 11-3, 11-7, 11-7 Round one:
Dipika Pallikal ( Ind ) bt Linda Hruzikova (Svk) 13-11,
11-7, 11-6 Joshna Chinappa ( Ind ) bt Victoria Lust
(Eng) 11-5, 11-7, 8-11, 10-12, 11-8
National champion
Saurav Ghosal scored his third successive upset in the Ornano
International Open to win the inaugural $15,000 PSA Tour event in
Bordeaux , France when he beat World No 30 Davide Bianchetti of
Italy 3-1.
The Kolkata-born
22-year-old made his presence felt in the quarterfinals when he
toppled the top seed of France Renan Lavigne in four games.
In the
semifinals, Ghosal faced 5th seed Amr Swelim of Egypt . The contest
turned out to be a marathon encounter lasting 74 minutes before
Ghosal survived a fifth game tie-break to win 10-12, 11-2, 11-2,
3-11, 14-12.
Mumbai’s Alisha Mashruwala and Vaidehi
Reddy of Chennai performed creditably, finishing
runners-up in their respective categories in the French
Junior Open Squash Which ended in Marseille on Sunday,
reports PTI.
Alisha the current under-17 Indian
national champion, who was seeded third in the girls
under-15 category, lost to top-seeded Chantal Morao of
Spain 6-9, 2-9, 3-9.
Vaidehi, on her debut in the
French Junior Open (under-17) category, defeated Simona
Hubscher (Swi), Julia Schmalz (Swi) and Marrd Duplomb
(France) in straight sets, en route to the semi-finals
where she beat Kirsty Mophea (Eng) 7-9, 9-1, 9-5, 9-4
before losing in the final to Emma Beddoes (Eng – 5th
seed) 4-9, 5-9, 8-10.
IIshaan Balvani (Mumbai,
Maharastra) was the only Indian boy who participated in
this championship in the u13 category.
Having
lost in the 1st round to Piene Badly (France), he won
the Plate event and achieved the 17th position defeating
Remi Soria (France) 9-2, 9-1, 10-9.
During the
awards ceremony, Alisha was given an additional trophy
for promoting Indian sport in France, since it was her
third successive participation there.
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