India's Ramit Tandon, who had been making waves in the
Singapore Open, a PSA World tour event, capped his good
show by winning the title, his career second.. His
previous title-win came in May this year in the SYS
Open, in Southampton, USA.
Gold for Navaneeth Prabhu in singapore squash open: 21st dec 2014
Singapore, Dec 21 (IANS): Top seed Navaneeth Prabhu of India
came back from a game down to beat Nicolas Chee of Malaysia 8-11, 11-6,
11-8, 12-10 in the Boys’ Under-13 final of the Old Chang Kee Singapore
Squash Open here Sunday.
Another Indian, Neel Joshi, who lost to
Navaneeth in the semi-final, defeated Ishant Shah Atul Kumar of Malaysia 3-0
to finish third.
Top seed Samitha Sivakumar lost to Liyen Teoh of
Malaysia 7-11, 11-6, 7-11 9-11 to finish sixth in Girls Under-13 division
while JS Krithica finished seventh with a 11-3, 11-7, 11-7, win over
Vasundhara Vasanthan of Malaysia in the play-off.
Nikith Joshi
defeated Natasha Chin of Malaysia to finish fifth in Girls’ Under-19
division.
Results of
All Finals: Under-19: Gaurav Nandrajog (Delhi) upset top seed Scott Huffer of Australia 9-5, 9-6, 9-6. play-off for the 3/4 positions in this section: Supreet Singh (Mumbai) beat Yuji Tsuchiya (Jap) 3rd place- 9-7, 4-9, 9-7, 9-1 Under:17 Saurav Ghosal lost to Dick Lau Siu Way's (Hong Kong) 7-9, 9-7, 9-6, 2-9, 3-9,
Vikas Jhangra (Maharashtra) finished third in this section when he beat Vivian
Rahmanan (Sin) - 9-1, 8-10, 9-4, 9-0. Under-15: Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (Chandigarh) beat Marcus Phua(Sin)- 9-0, 9-5, 9-0 Under: 13 : Vikram Malhotra (Mumbai) beat Vincent Chew(Mal) 9-3, 9-1, 9-2 Under 11: Ramit Tandon (Calcutta) beat Aditya Jagtap (Mumbai) 9-0, 9-0, 9-2
In the girls's section, V. Anvesha finished fourth in Under-13, as did Shrutty Reddy in the Under-15 Section. Sonali Phillips finished sixth in the Under-19 section, playing an age group well above her actual.
GIRLS
UNDER-14 FINALS:
JOSHNA CHINNAPPA(INDIA) BEAT SALLY LOOI(MALAYSIA) 9-0/9-3/9-6. BOYS UNDER-16: SEMI FINALS: BIKRAM UBEROI LOST TO VINCENT CHEUNG(HK)
INDIA'S NUMBER TWO SQUASH PLAYER UDAI SINGH WON
THE SINGAPORE NATIONAL SQUASH TITLE BEATING THE HOST COUNTRY'S TOP PLAYER LIM JIT
WEI IN A FIVE-GAME THRILLER 9-7, 9-6, 5-9, 3-9, 9-3.
IT WAS THE FIRST TIME FOREIGNERS WERE PERMITTED
TO PLAY IN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
