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Easy first round for Bhattacharya

July 27, 2004 21:57 IST

Men's top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya outclassed Chandan Jadhav in straight games to enter the second round in the Rs 600,000 Herald Maritime All India [ Images ] Open Squash Championships in Mumbai [ Images ] on Tuesday.

Joining Bhattacharya, who carved out a facile 15-8, 15-1, 15-4 victory, in round two was Junaid Nathani, another Mumbai player, who ousted Kabir Kapoor 15-8, 15-7, 15-3.

In the under-19 boys' section, number one seed Rushab Vora trounced another local player Harish Poddar in straight games to storm into the second round.

Vora whipped Poddar 15-1, 15-5, 15-12. He was joined in round two by Delhi's [ Images ] Naresh Kumar, who had to wage a tough fight to beat Aditya Shastri 15-10, 15-13, 17-14, and fourth seed Ritesh Sharma, who ousted Deepak Singh 15-3, 15-1, 15-3.

Other results:

Under-19 boys' (1st round): Zoran Diwan bt Jihan Advani [ Images ] 15-6, 15-8, 15-10; Naishad Lalwani bt Kuwarpal Singh 15-7, 15-15-10; Siddharth Samantray bt Arun Sharma 15-8, 15-12, 15-8; Cyrus Appoo bt Nilesh Mishra 15-7, 15-6, 15-9; Sarvesh Chavan bt Virendra Pawar 15-0, 15-7, 15-0.

Under-15 boys (1st round): Anuj Chavan bt Ronak Ajmera 15-6, 15-2, 15-5; Paramjit Singh bt Owaise Gore 15-3, 15-1, 15-6; Sahil Bbhulabhai bt Deven Chandy 15-3, 15-4, 15-2; Ravi Dixit bt Rohan Chaturvedi 15-9, 15-6, 15-10; Mahesh Mangaonkar bt Prateek Selarka 15-4, 15-6, 15-5; Akilesh Naik bt Nitin Mishra 15-4, 15-3, 15-6; Naveen Jhangra bt Mohd Javed 15-3, 15-3, 15-6; Aditya Jagtap bt Nitesh Rikame 15-3, 15-0, 15-0; Chetan Rathod bt Kunal Khaladkar 15-5, 14-15, 15-6, 15-12; Abhishek Pradhan bt Ankit Dahiya 15-10, 15-5, 15-7.

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