Date:17/11/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/17/stories/2007111754651900.htm

Sport - Squash

Kotian struggles against Pandey

MUMBAI: Vrushabh Kotian, seeded number four, struggled against Sashi Pandey before winning 9-10, 9-7, 9-6, 9-10, 9-5 in the 64th CCI-Western India Open squash championship in the boys’ under-15 quarterfinals on Friday.

Vikram Malhotra and Saumya Karki won their quarterfinals with ease in the men’s and women’s open categories.

The results (all quarterfinals): Men: Vikram Malhotra bt Dhiraj Nagpal 9-2, 9-4, 9-6. Women: Saumya Karki bt Shaheen Madraswala 9-3, 9-3, 9-0.

Boys: U-19: Laxman Joshi bt Mahesh Mangaonkar 9-2, 9-1, 9-3; Aditya Jagtap bt Akhilesh Nayak 9-0, 9-6, 9-4; Abhinav Sinha bt Cyrus Vakil 9-5, 9-4, 9-2.

U-17: Aditya Gupta bt Javed Mohd. 9-10, 1-9, 9-4, 10-8, 9-2; Abhishek Pradhan bt Anuj Chauhan 9-2, 9-0, 9-5; Aditya Jagtap bt Vrishabh Kotian 9-0, 9-3, 9-1.

U-15: Vrishabh Kotian bt Shashi Pandey 9-10, 9-7, 9-6, 9-10, 9-5; Caran Arora bt Ness Billimoria 9-5, 9-0, 9-3; Abhishek Pradhan bt Samir Mistry 9-5, 9-2, 9-2; Mahesh Mangaonkar bt Rahil Fazelbhoy 9-0, 9-0, 9-0.

U-13: Yohan Pandole bt Mishal Advani 9-0, 9-3, 0-9, 6-9, 9-1; Ishaan Advani bt Nishikant Khapre 9-1, 9-0, 9-5; Arjun Kochhar bt Akhilesh Yadav 9-5, 4-9, 9-4, 9-2; Raghav Malhotra bt Armaan Shaikh 9-3, 9-6, 9-0.

U-11: Sandeep Paswan bt Kshiteej Prasad 1-9, 9-2, 7-9, 9-2, 9-5; Yohan Pandole bt Aashaya Kejriwal 9-2, 9-5, 9-0; Yohan Surti bt Aryan Hemdev 9-2, 9-6, 9-0.

Girls: U-19: Namrata Purohit bt Sudha Pandey 9-3, 9-1, 9-1; Saumya Karki bt Tanya Arora 9-0, 9-0, 9-0.

U-15: Varsha Pandey bt Sanjana Merchant 9-6, 9-7, 10-8; Saumy Karki bt Ruchi Mishra 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Urvashi Joshi bt Rhea Advani 9-0, 9-1, 9-0.

Professionals (semifinals): Rohit More bt Sanjay Pawar 6-9, 5-9, 10-8, 9-7, 9-0; C. Gomez bt Sachin Jadhav 9-3, 9-3, 9-0. — Special Correspondent