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Dhiraj upsets Gajendra
KOLKATA, JAN. 15. Men's second seed Gajendra Rathore of Madhya Pradesh fell to unseeded Dhiraj Singh of Rajasthan in the semifinals of the East India Open squash here at the Calcutta Racket Club on Tuesday. Rathore went down in straight sets as Singh played a strong game displaying excellent court-coverage and placings to which the former had no reply.
Men's top seed Bikram Uberoi of Maharashtra made short work of local boy Sourav Ghoshal to progress to his second successive final.
The results (all players from Bengal unless otherwise stated): men: semifinals: Bikram Uberoi (Mah) bt Sourav Ghoshal 9-5, 9-2, 9-6; Gajendra Rathore (MP) lost to Dhiraj Singh (Raj) 4-9, 6-9, 9-10. Quarterfinals: Bikram Uberoi (Mah) bt Deepak Agarwal 9-0, 9-3, 9-5; Sourav Ghoshal bt Balamurugan (TN) 3-9, 9-7, 9-2, 9-2; Dhiraj Singh (Raj) bt Rahul Suri 9-2, 9- 1, 9-4; Gajendra Rathore (MP) bt Dalip Tripathi 10-9, 9-2, 9-4.
Boys (under-19): semifinals: Sourav Ghoshal bt Imran Khan (Del) 9-5, 9-6, 9-5; Amjad Khan (Del) bt A. Rampuria 9-3, 9-2, 9-2. Quarterfinals: Saurav Ghoshal bt Gautam Das 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; A. Rampuria bt Radhika Kashyap (MP) 9-2, 9-6, 9-5; Amjad Khan (Del) bt Nikhil Khemka 9- 0, 9-1, 9-1; Imran Khan (Del) bt Kabir Mansata 9-0, 9-1, 9-2.
Under-17: semifinals: Saurav Ghoshal bt Naresh Kumar (Del) 9-5, 9-2, 9-3; Imran Khan (Del) bt Radhika Kashyap (MP) 9-0, 9-0, 9-4. Quarterfinals: Saurav Ghoshal bt Ranit Tandon 9-2, 9-1, 9-3; Naresh Kumar (Del) bt Kunal Dalmia 9-3, 9-2, 9-5; Radhika Kashyap (MP) bt Nikhil Khemka 9-3, 9-3, 6-9, 9-6; Imran Khan (Del) bt Pratik Chalia (Raj) 9-3, 9-1, 9-2.
Under-15: semifinals: Naresh Kumar (Del) bt Mrityunjai Taylor 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Pratik Chalia (Raj) bt Ranit Tandon 9-4, 9-2, 9-0. Quarterfinals: Naresh Kumar (Del) bt Vedant Sureka 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; M. Taylor bt Rohan Bajpeyi 9-0, 9-2, 7-9, 3-9, 9-5; Pratik Chalia (Raj) bt Ayushman Khetawat 9-2, 9-1, 9-2; Z. Vaswani w/o Ranit Tandon.
Men (over 35): semifinals: O'Neil Pramanik bt Vivek Bajoria 9-8, 9-4, 9-0. Quarterfinals: O'Neil Pramanik bt Sajjan Tailor 9-6, 9-5, 9-0; Kavi Seth w/o Rajiv Bhatia; Tanveer Ahmed bt Jai Lal Shreshtha 9-5, 9-4, 9-2; V. Bajoria w/o Deepak Moolani (Mah).
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