Aishwarya Upsets 2nd Seed Sachika, Advances to Quarterfinals
Aishwarya Khubchandani fought hard to secure an upset victory over 2nd seed Sachika Balvani 11-13, 11-4, 11-7, 11-7 and advance to the quarterfinals of the Otters Club Vedanta Squash Open here Wednesday.
Mumbai, Apr 10 (PTI) Aishwarya Khubchandani fought hard to secure an upset victory over 2nd seed Sachika Balvani 11-13, 11-4, 11-7, 11-7 and advance to the quarterfinals of the Otters Club Vedanta Squash Open here Wednesday.
The Otters Club Vedanta Squash Open is a PSA satellite event and a three-star tournament on the Indian Junior squash circuit.
Aishwarya was leading the 1st game at 7-5, but allowed Sachika to make a comeback.
The game went into an 11-11 tiebreaker after which Sachika used her experience to score back to back winners to take the first game 13-11.
Aishwarya shrugged off her first game loss and dominated the rest of games making very few mistakes to win the tie 11-13,11-4, 11-7, 11-7 and advance to the quarters.
In another match 3rd seed Sanya Vats breezed past unseeded Ankita Patil securing an 11-0, 11-0, 11-1 victory.
Results Women Round of 16: Aishwarya Khubchandani bt Sachika Balvani [2] 11-13, 11-4, 11-7, 11-7;Radhika Rathore [5/8] bt Priya Gupta 11-5 11-3 12-10; Sanya Vats [3/4] bt Ankita Patil1 1-0 11-0 11-1 Results Boys U-19 Round 3 Veer Chotrani [1] bt Ajay Singh Bhadoria [9/16] 11-4, 11-3, 11-5; Tushar Shahani [2] bt Niraj Kabra 11-1, 11-1, 11-1; Advait Adik [9/16] bt Vivaan Jaikishan [5/8] 11-4 11-5 11-3; Arnaav Sareen bt Tarun Gusain [9/16]11-3 11-2 11-5 ;Neel Joshi bt Shlok Makhija [9/16] 11-3 11-4 11-2.
Results Men's Round 3: Tushar Shahani bt Vicky Gagat [17/32] 11-3 11-7 11-8; Ravi Dixit bt Guhan Senthilkumar [5/8] 11-9 11-6 11-7; Neel Joshi [17/32] bt Ashish Keskar [9/16] 11-6 11-2 11-8; Ch Arun Kumar [9/16] bt Puminder Kumar [17/32] 11-6 11-6 11-9 ; Ranjit Singh [2] bt Deva Ram Choudhary [17/32] 11-2 11-3 11-5.
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