Indian contingent in a dominating position at Asian Junior Squash
The Indian contingent put up an impressive show at the Asian Junior Squash tournament in Jordan with Tushar Shahani, Neel Joshi, Yuvraj Wadhwani advancing to the semi-finals. Meanwhile, Sunayna Kuruvilla and Ashita Pranaya Bhengra were amongst the girls to qualify for the semi-finals.
With a clutch of players in the semi-final, India's hopes of a good show rose in the ongoing Asian junior individual squash championship here on Friday.
In the boys' section, Tushar Shahani (U-17), Neel Joshi (U-15), Yuvraj Wadhwani and Parth Ambani (both U-13) are in the last four as are Sunayna Kuruvilla and Ashita Pranaya Bhengra (both U-19) besides Navmi Sharma (U-17), Yoshna Singh, Ananya Dabke (both U-15) and Yuvna Gupta (U-13) in the girls.
Nonetheless, the one big disappointment for India came with the exit of second seed Abhay Singh in the boys' U-19 section in the quarterfinal, losing to Pakistan's Mansoor Zaman, the 5/8 seed in five games. The Indian had led by twogames before slipping. The Pakistan player won 8-11, 9-11, 11-2, 11-6, 11-9. Among the others mention has to be made of Yoshna Singh, the only unseeded among the lot to reach the semi-final. The highly promising girl made short work of a higher ranked Hong Kong player and there is hope of more from her.
The results: quarterfinals: boys: U-13: Parth Ambani (5/8) bt Usman Nadeem (3/4) (Pak) 5-11, 2-11, 13-11,11-9, 11-6; Yuvraj Wadhwani (2) bt Lo Chun Yu Kelvin (5/8) (HK) 11-5, 11-3, 6-11, 11-6; U-15: Neel Joshi (2) bt Navneeth Prabhu (5/8) 11-7, 11-7, 11-3; U-17: Tushar Shahani (2) bt Wong King Yeung (5/8) (HK) 11-5, 11-6, 11-9; Girls: U-19: Sunayna Kuruvilla (¾) bt Nur Alia Izzati Binti MuAnis (5/8) (Mal) 11-8, 11-5, 9-11, 13-11; Ashita Bhengra (5/8) bt Ho Wa King (2) (HK) 11-6, 11-3, 11-5; U-17: Navmi Sharma (5/8) bt Sanya Vats (¾) 9-11, 11-8, 11-6, 8-11, 11-9; U-15: Ananya Dabke (¾) bt Wu Renee Wing (5/8) (HK) 12-10, 11-6, 11-4; Yoshna Singh bt Wong Po Yui Kirstie (3/4) (HK) 11-5, 11-6, 11-6; U-13: Yuvna Gupta (¾) bt V S C Sinaly (SL) 11-4, 11-4, 11-3.
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