WESTERN INDIA OPEN 
SQUASH TOURNAMENT
                                                                                                                                     (14/11/2009)




Gaurav Nandrajog (Winner, Men's Open) and Saumya Karki  (Winner, Women) with their trophies.

   

Gaurav retains title, double for Saumya

Top seeds and favourites Gaurav Nandrajog and Saumya Karki lived up to their reputations and bagged the men’s and women’s titles, respectively, in the 66th CCI-Western India Open Squash Tournament at the CCI. 

India No. 4 and defending champion Nandrajog rallied from a 0-2 deficit to overcome second seed Sandeep Jangra of the Services 7-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-4, 11-6 to retain his crown, in a quality championship round that lasted 49 minutes. 

Karki enjoyed a rewarding day following victories in the women’s and girls’ under-19 finals and helped herself to a grand double on an exciting day of squash. 

Karki faced second seed Ankita Sharma in both finals and won in contrasting fashion, with Sharma coming up with a strong challenge in the women’s clash that could have gone either way. 

Boys under-19 top seed Ravi Dixit denied state mate Vrishab Kotian a double with a 11-4, 11-4, 11-3 victory. 

Kotian made amends by clinching the boys under-17 title as the No. 1 seed following a hard-fought 11-5, 11-5, 10-12, 14-12 win with Borwankar springing up a late challenge.

RESULTS 

Men’s Open: 1-Gaurav Nandrajog (Delhi) bt 2-Sandeep Jangra (Services) 7-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-4, 11-6.  
Women: 1-Saumya Karki (Hiranandani Club) bt 2-Ankita Sharma (Otters Club) 11-7, 14-12, 10-12, 11-3.  
Boys U-19: 1-Ravi Dixit (TN) bt 2-Vrishab Kotian (TN) 11-4, 11-4, 11-3.  
Boys U-17: 1-Vrishab Kotian (TN) bt Akash Borwankar (Mumbai) 11-5, 11-5, 10-12, 14-12.  
Boys U-15: 2-Vijay Kumar (Raj) bt 3/4-Raghav Mehrotra (CCI) 5-11, 11-2, 11-4, 11-7.  
Boys U-13: 1-Yohan Pandole (Bombay Gym) bt 2-Kunj Rawani (NSCI) 11-7, 11-13, 11-5, 11-7.  
Boys U-11: 3/4-Yash Bhargav bt 3/4-Chaitanya Shah (Bombay Gym) 9-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-3.  
Girls U-19: 1-Saumya Karki (Hiranandani Club) bt 2-Ankita Sharma (Otters Club) 11-9, 11-8, 11-7.
Girls U-15: 1-Urvashi Joshi (Jindal) bt 2-Aishwarya Kulkarni (Jindal) 11-6, 11-4, 11-7.  
Girls U-13: 1-Aishwarya Nambiar (Kandivli SC) bt 2-Jui Kalgutkar (Chembur Gym) 11-8, 11-4, 11-6.  
Girls U-11: 1-Nikita Joshi (Otters Club) bt 2-Daksha Pathak (Jindal) 9-11, 4-11, 11-5, 11-6, 11-6.
Under-9: 1-Veer Chotrani (Otters Club) bt Tushar Shahani 11-4, 11-6, 11-9.  
Professionals: 1-Amjad Khan (Delhi) bt 2-Rohit More (CCI) 11-3, 12-10, 11-5.  
Over-35: 1-Manish Chotrani (Khar Gym) bt Rishad Pandole (CCI) 11-9, 7-11, 11-8, 11-7  
Over-45: Vaman Apte (CCI) bt Anant More (CCI) 11-13, 11-0,11-8, 11-6.  
Over-55: Ramesh More (Bombay Gym) bt Ravi Puri (Bombay Gym) 11-5, 11-6, 11-7.

Roshan surprise finalist  
at British Juniors

Roshan Kumarakannan was the lone standard-bearer from India at the Tecnifibre British Junior Open Squash Championships at Sheffield. He was the lone Indian finalist making the grade in the u-13 event. He beat two Egyptians on the way to the final but was beaten by top seed Youssef Mohamed 11-5, 11-5, 11-2 in just 19 minutes. 

Top seed Abhishek Pradhan in the u-17 crashed out as did Mahesh Mangaonkar, Aditya Jagtap and Deepika Pallikal, the No 2 seed. Said coach Cyrus Poncha about Roshan, the 12-year-old product of the ICL Academy,``He is aggressive, he has great hands.'’ 

Egypt claimed all eight titles for the first time in the history of the tournament. In the men's U19 final, UK-based Egyptian Mohamed El Shorbagy beat compatriot Karim Abdel Gawad 11-9, 11-7, 10-12, 11-9 - not only becoming only the second player to win three successive U19 titles, but also extending his unbeaten record in the championships since January 2006, when he won the U15 crown, followed the next year by the U17 title

 

RESULTS:

MENS U19:

[1] Mohamed El Shorbagy (EGY) bt [2] Karim Abdel Gawad (EGY) 11-9, 11-7, 10-12, 11-9
U17: [2] Marwan El Shorbagy (EGY) bt [5/8] Mohamed Abouelghar (EGY) 11-9, 12-10, 5-11, 11-4.
U15: [3/4] Shehab Essam (EGY) bt [3/4] Dylan Murray (USA) 11-5, 3-11, 11-4, 20-18.
U13: [1] Youssef Mohamed (EGY) bt [5/8] Roshan Kumarakannan (IND) 11-5, 11-5, 11-2

WOMEN U19:

[1] Nour El Sherbini (EGY) bt [5/8] Salma Hany (EGY) 11-8, 11-7, 11-3.
U17: [1] Nour El Tayeb (EGY) bt [2] Amanda Sobhy (USA) 11-6, 11-4, 11-4.
U15: [1] Yathreb Adel (EGY) bt [3/4] Mariam Ibrahim Metwaly (EGY) 13-11, 12-10, 11-5.
U13: [3/4] Mayar Hany (EGY) bt [1] Nouran Johar (EGY) 5-11, 11-5, 11-3, 9-11, 11-8.

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