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Field day for top seeds

June 16, 2003 20:34 IST

Top seed Saurav Ghosal of Chennai and second seed Gaurav Nandrajog of Delhi [ Images ] sailed into the last eight stage (boys' under-19) with straight games victories in the Rs 300,000 Oil-Servo All India [ Images ] Open squash championship at the Otters Club in Mumbai [ Images ] on Monday.

Ghosal drubbed local lad Dhiraj Nagpal 9-0, 9-0, 9-2 while Nandrajog crushed another local boy, Bipin Batra, 9-1, 9-3, 9-1.

Third seed Sahil Vora of Mumbai sidelined Sandeep Jangra of Jindal 9-4, 9-1, 9-2 while fourth seed Vikas Jangra of Jindal subdued local lad Ritesh Sharma 9-1, 9-2, 9-0.

In the boys' under-17 pre-quarter-finals, top seed Imran Khan [ Images ] of Dhampur, Naishad Lalwani, second seed Rushabh Vora, Sarvesh Chauhan, Fateh Singh of Madhya Pradesh [ Images ], fourth seed Manek Mathur all made it to the last eight stage.

Results (Open) second round: Satyajit Sheshadri bt Ritesh Sharma 10-8, 2-9, 9-6, 9-4; Vikas Jangra bt Auloke Mathur 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Sahil Vora bt Karan Malhotra 9-3, 9-2, 9-0.

Boys' under-19 (pre-quarter-finals): Mihir Sheth bt A Parthiban 9-6, 9-3, 9-2; Anurag Gill bt Manek Mathur 9-6,2-9,10-8, 9-2; Rushabh Vora bt Imran Khan 9-5, 9-3, 7-9, 0-9, 9-2; Sahil Vora bt Sandeep Jangra 9-4, 9-1, 9-2; Vikas Jangra bt Ritesh Sharma 9-1, 9-2, 9-0; Saurav Ghosal bt Dhiraj Nagpal 9-0, 9-0, 9-2; Vivian Rahmanan bt Vinayak Shetty 10-8, 9-2, 9-6; Gaurav Nandrajog bt Bipin Batra 9-1, 9-3, 9-1.

Boys' under-17 (pre-quarter-finals): Naishad Lalwani bt Harinderpal Sandhu 9-5, 9-3, 9-0; Imran Khan bt Karanpal Sethi 9-1, 9-4, 9-1; Sandeep Jangra bt Arun Sharma 9-0, 7-9, 10-8, 9-3; Rushabh Vora bt Joran Diwan 9-5, 10-8, 9-0; Sarvesh Chauhan bt Vinayak Shetty 9-7, 9-6, 6-9, 4-9, 10-8; Fateh Singh bt Naresh Kumar 9-4, 9-6, 6-9, 9-0; Manek Mathur bt Vikram Malhotra 9-7, 3-9, 9-1, 9-2; A Parthiban bt Gautam Kalani 10-8, 9-2, 9-4.

Boys' under-13 (pre-quarter-finals): Harinder Sandhu bt Rahul D'Cunha 9-0, 9-0, 9-2; Prashant Kumar bt Zahan Dastur 9-2, 9-3, 9-2; Ishaan Balwani bt Vir Seth 9-6, 9-1, 9-3; Naishad Lalwani bt Nitin Chauhan 9-0, 8-10, 9-4, 9-2; Tanmay Govil bt Farman Khan 9-4, 9-4, 9-3; Jay Bhagat bt Reeyad Seewai 9-0, 9-1, 9-5; Jay Dalal bt Naveen Jangra 10-8, 9-5, 6-9, 9-6.

Boys' under-13 (second round): Cyrus Sidwa bt Karmveer Gabadier 7-9, 9-0, 9-2, 9-2; Abhishek Pradhan bt Arjun Melwani 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Yash Shah bt Dhruv Sanghvi 9-3, 9-2, 9-2; Anuj Chauhan bt Akash Zaveri 9-2, 9-2, 9-7; Ramit Tandon bt Rishi Tandon 9-0, 9-3, 9-5; Aditya Gupta bt Varun Hiremath 10-9, 9-0, 9-6; Zahan Dastur bt Cyrus Sidwa 9-4, 9-2, 9-1.

Boys' under-11 (second round): Karan Arora bt Anrudip Nambiyar 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; G Dishank bt Aviroop Ghosal 4-9, 9-4, 9-7, 6-9, 9-5; Tarun Nambhiyar bt Mahesh Mangaonkar 9-2, 10-8, 4-9, 2-9, 9-5; Shuarya Visaria bt Siddhant Chopra 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Rishi Tondon bt Raj Salian 9-0, 9-1, 9-2; Dhruv Sanghavi bt Harsh Hemnani 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Sameer Mistry bt Rishav Thakkar 9-1, 9-0, 9-0.

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