Maharashtra's Aryaman Adik staved off a determined
fight-back from Delhi's Yash Bhargava to record a 3-2
win in the boys' under-19 final of the NSCI Indian
Classic Junior Open Squash Championship.
Hong
Kong girls Ka Wing Ho and Tin Yan Lau completed a
satisfying outing to Mumbai, by claiming the top honours
in the under-19 and under-15 events respectively.
In the under-19 final, the number one seed Ka Wing
dropped the second game en route to defeating Goa's
second seed Akanksha Salunkhe 11-9, 7-11, 11-6, 11-8 in
a little over 31 minutes.
Final results:
Boys
Under 11 : Yuvraj Wadhwani (Mah) bt Vivaan Shah (Mah)
11-8, 11-6, 11-7. Boys Under 15: Yash Fadte (Goa)
bt Advait Adik (Mah) 11-6, 11-7, 11-4. Boys Under 13
: Aakash Gupta (Mah) bt Shreyas Mehta (Mah) 11-8, 8-11,
11-5, 3-11, 11-9. Boys
Under 17 : Tushar Shahani (Mah) bt Arman Jindal (Mah)
11-6, 11-6, 6-11, 11-8. Boys Under 19: Boys:
Aryaman Adik (Maha) bt Yash Bhargava (Del) 11-5, 11-6,
9-11, 6-11, 11-4. Girls Under 11 : Kaavya Bansal
(Mah) bt Advita Sharma (Mah) 11-9, 9-11, 11-1, 11-0.
Girls Under 13 : Aishwarya Khubchandani (Mah) bt Diksha
Aurobindo (TN) 11-5, 11-5, 11-6. Girls Under 15 : Tin
Yan Lau (HK) bt Sin Yuk Chan (HK) 11-3, 7-11, 13-11,
11-9. Girls Under 17 : Ashita Pranaya Bhengra (TN) bt
Nikita Joshi (Mah) 11-13, 13-11, 11-5, 11-8. Girls Under 19 : Ka Wing Ho (HK)
bt Akanksha Salunkhe (Goa) 11-9, 7-11, 11-6, 11-8.
India No.3 Ravi Dixit and Deepak
Mishra endured a stiff challenge from top seed Saurav
Ghosal and fifth seed Madhav Dhingra to snatch a
nail-biting 8-15, 15-9, 15-10 win in the doubles contest
of the third edition of NSCI Squash Open Championship.
The battle that lasted almost an hour saw Dixit and
Mishra toil away from a 0-1 deficit to bag the crown as
the crowd was enthralled.
In the singles,
seasoned champions Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa won
the men's and women's singles respectively after
chalking up comfortable victories. Chinappa had an easy
outing against fourth seed Urshavi Joshi and won 11-3,
12-10, 11-9. Fourth seed Nikita Joshi carved out a
10-12, 11-6, 7-11, 11-8, 11-1 victory in 65 minutes to
bag third place.
In the men's title clash, Ghosal
lived up to his billing and posted a 11-4, 11-5, 11-3
win over Dixit to take home the winner's purse of
Rs.1,50,000. All
Finals :
MEN'S OPEN : Saurav Ghoshal bt Ravi Dixit 11-4, 11-5, 11-3. WOMEN'S : Joshana Chinappa bt Urwashi
Joshi 11-3, 12-10, 11-9. DOUBLES OPEN :Ravi
Dixit / Deepak Mishra bt Saurav Ghosal / Madhav Dhingra
8-15, 15-9, 15-10; MEN'S O-35 :
Rishad Pandole bt Adrian Esra 11-6, 9-11, 11-5, 11-8. MEN'S O-45 : Darius
Surti bt Deepak Moolani 11-8, 11-7, 11-9 MENS O-50 :
Deepak Moolani bt Riaz Mohmd 3-0 All Semifinals :
MENS OPEN
Ravi Dixit bt Gaurav Nandrajog 11-9, 5-11, 11-7, 11-2
Saurav Ghosal bt Deepak Mishra 11-2, 11-7, 11-6