PROSQUASH
Vol 12 No. 3 Issue No. 47 July 2008
Chief Patron: Harshvardhan Patil (Minister, Govt of Maharashtra) // Founder Director: Mahendra Agarwal // Directors : Narendra Gour (I.R.S.) Navneet Soni (I.R.S.) //Executive Directors: Anil Diggikar (I.A.S), Bipin Bihari (I.P.S), Bharat Bhushan (I.R.S)// Honored Patrons: Vivek Nair (VC & M.D.The Leela), Sajjan Jindal (Chairman & M.D.  JSW Steel Ltd), Eric  Dastur (Chairman, K.M. Dastur Reinsurance Brokers Pvt. Ltd.) // President: Ashish Gupta // Vice President: Noreena // Secretary General: Sanjay Goyal // Joint Secretary: Vicky Kalludi // Treasurer: Ashok Nagpal // Executive Committee Mem.: Saifee Jani, Rakesh Lakhanpal, Madhukar Musle, Organising Secretary:Karan Mehra, Ajit Singh, Imroz Pathan // Advisor: Pradeep K. Vijayakar // Chief Executive: Vidhya Rao // Technical Director: Amitoj Inder Singh // Chief Co-ordinator: Riaz Mohammed
     

 BOMBAY GYMKHANA – SRAM MAHARASHTRA LEAGUE

Squash league a runaway success                                        (22/06/2008)


The Winning Team Willstrop with their trophy at the squash courts of Bombay Gymkhana

  

 

The inaugural Bombay Gymkhana-SRAM Squash League had a four-fold objective:

1) To set up a framework of increased match play between players in the state. 

2) To enhance the camaraderie between the players in the state. 

3) To encourage our young players to enjoy the experience of playing on a team.

4)To enhance the general standard of squash in the state . 
After two months of exciting play that involved eight years olds as well as the 64 years old Ravi Puri, one can say the objective was amply fulfilled.
 

The league began on April 5 with the following format: 8 teams, 7 players in each team  with 2 reserves. There used to be a Motilal Sanghi Inter-club event run by Mahendra Sanghi in memory of his father. There the stronger teams had an advantage. Here the players were spread over eight teams named after contemporary squash greats.

Team Willstrop, named after James Willstrop the England player won the title beating Team Shabana named after the four-time world champ Amr Shabana 4-3. Forty-four-year old  Ravindra Jagtap hardly plays competitive squash but takes the court to give to practice to his son India's u-17 champ Aditya. Ravi had a crucial win beating Manish Chavan. Skipper Niraj Shirgaokar got the other important win beating younger Cyrus Vakil. But with Manish Chotrani, with a stiff handicap of minus 9, losing to Yudhvir Katoch 2-3, the match hung on the seventh and last tie between Naveen Jangra and the seasoned Raj Arora. Naveen won 3-0. Skipper Shirgaokar paid tribute to Sachin Jadhav who won most of his ties and to the younger kids in the team like Pranay Merchant.

The losers missed Vikram Malhotra who was in Chennai preparing for the Asian Juniors at Busan.

Team Palmer beat Team Mathew 4-1 to claim third spot. Their winners were Rishad Billimoria, Sanjay Pawar, Jehangir Surti and Rohan Vora. Aditya Jagtap pulled off a creditable 3-2 win for Team Mathew over CCI pro Temo Gomez..  

  
 

CONTD.........2

  
 

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