Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Squash News

At $325K Men's AJ Bell PSA World Championship 2017, Manchester, England

[Q1] Vikram Malhotra (IND,69) bt Charlie Lee (ENG,116) 11-8, 11-5, 13-11 (35m)
[Q1] Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,73) bt Reiko Peter (SUI,152) 11-6, 7-11, 11-9, 11-4 (49m)
[Q1] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND,52) bt Miles Jenkins (ENG,171) 11-7, 11-8, 12-14, 11-5 (49m)

[Q2] Vikram Malhotra (IND,69) l Karim El Hammamy (EGY,74) 11-13, 6-11, 6-11 (43m)
[Q2] Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,73) bt Mohamed Elsherbini (EGY,84) 11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 11-3 (62m)
[Q2] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND,52) bt Andrew Schnell (CAN,83) 12-14, 11-2, 11-4, 13-11 (49m)

[R1] (Q) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,73) l (13) Daryl Selby (ENG,15) 8-11, 5-11, 5-11 (36m)
[R1] Saurav Ghosal (IND,16) bt (9) James Willstrop (ENG,10) 11-6 ret. (10m)
[R1] (Q) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND,52) l Ben Coleman (ENG,53) 4-11, 6-11, 6-11 (43m)

[R2] Saurav Ghosal (IND,16) bt Ben Coleman (ENG,53) 11-4, 11-3, 11-4 (45m)

[R3] Saurav Ghosal (IND,16) vs (2) Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY,4)

Saurav continues with his recent terrific form as he reached into the third round of the Worlds ... Saurav got lucky break in the first round as former WR #1 James Willstrop retired after losing the first game ... Saurav comfortably won the second round beating Britisher Ben Coleman ... In the third round, he will faced tough match against 2nd seed Karim Abdel Gawad.

Harry and Mahesh qualified for the main-draw but lost in the first round ... Harry lost against similar ranked Coleman in four games and Mahesh lost against former top-10 Selby in straight games.


At $279K Women's AJ Bell PSA World Championship 2017, Manchester, England

[R1] (14) Joshna Chinappa (IND,15) l Salma Hany (EGY,19) 9-11, 13-11, 5-11, 9-11 (44m)
[R1] Dipika Pallikal Karthik (IND,20) l (13) Olivia Blatchford (USA,12) 7-11, 11-5, 9-11, 14-12, 8-11 (56m)

Joshna and Dipika failed to cross first hurdle of the Worlds ... Joshna lost in four games against young Egyptian Salma Hany ... Dipika lost in a close match against WR #12 Blatchford ... Dipika saved match-balls in the fourth before winning it but failed to keep momentum in the fifth.

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