Easy for Ghosal, Joshna

Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) Top seeds and title favourites Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa, both from Tamil Nadu, led the men’s and women’s singles fields into the quarter-finals of the 60th senior National squash championships with comfortable victories, here Thursday.

Ghosal defeated qualifier Ashish Keskar of Services 11-3, 11-3, 11-9, while Joshna swept past Bihar’s Anupam Kumar 11-0, 11-1, 11-2.

The results:

Men (pre-quarter-finals): 1-Saurav Ghosal (TN) bt Ashish Keskar (Q, Services) 11-3 11-3 11-9; Gaurav Nandrajog (Delhi) bt Ranvijay Singh (TN) 11-9 11-8 13-11; Vikas Jangra (Services) bt Rishi Tandon (TN) 12-10 11-9 3-11 11-1; 3/4-Ravi Dixit (TN) bt Shravan Kaur (WB) 11-6 11-2 11-6; 3/4-Mahesh Mangaonkar (Mah) bt Krish Kapur (WB) 11-2 11-5 11-5; Abhinav Sinha (Mah) bt Arjun Agnihotri (Services) 7-11 11-8 11-1 9-11 11-6; Sandeep Jangra (Services) bt Vivek Dinodia (WB) 11-7 11-9 13-11; 2-Harinder Pal Sandhu (TN) bt Aseem Ingale (Delhi) 11-4 11-7 11-5.

Women (pre-quarter-finals): 1-Joshna Chinappa (TN) bt Anupam Kumari (Bihar) 11-0 11-1 11-2; Kiran Katoch (JK) w/o Neha Rani (Bihar); Janet Vidhi (Delhi) bt Jyoti Singh (Bihar) 11-0 11-1 11-1; 3/4-Vrishrutyi Sahni (Mah) bt Soni Kumari (Bihar) 11-1 11-2 11-1; 3/4-Sachika Ingale (Delhi) bt Sunny Meatha (Bihar) 11-0 11-0 11-0; Aishwarya Bhattacharya (Mah) bt Chandani Kumari (Bihar) 11-0 11-0 11-0; Tamanna (UP) bt Neha Kumari (Bihar) 11-0 11-0 11-1; 2-Anaka Alankamony (TN) bt Mona Kumari (Bihar) 11-2 11-0 11-2.

IANS 2012-12-20 21:28:04