Siddharth ousts Abhimanyu

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, NOV. 6. Siddharth Suchde of Maharashtra clinically demolished the power game of top seed Abhimanyu Jain of Delhi to emerge a creditable winner in an under-19 boys quarterfinal match of the India Cements-National sub-junior/junior squash championship at the SDAT-India Cements Academy here on Tuesday.

Two years ago he won the National under-14 title and then left the country for studies in Scotland. The wiry tuned up his talent to be a highly noticeable player in the Scottish league.

All the powerful drives and the delicate drops never missed Suchde's racket. In effect once Suchde got over that brief phase of tentativeness in the opening stanza, the Maharashtra lad thrived on Abhimanyu's mistakes. A frustrated Abhimanyu, who has the experience of playing in the Asian junior circuit could not have gone through a more miserable moment in his career. He could but collect just two points in three games!

Suchde's performance was the talk of the third day's proceedings for he had scalped the top seed. Three other seeds fell in the boys' section. Fourth seed Anurag Gill was unable to make the most of a two-game lead against Vikas Jangra (Mah) in the under- 17 section. Jangra is a former under-15 champion.

Then there was this Daly College boy from Indore, Fateh Singh, who eclipsed the second seeded Gautam Kalani (Mah) in four games in under-15 section. For Jay Dalal (Mah), the fourth seed in under-13 section, an upset tummy ended his run in the championship, Laxman Joshi (Mah) being the beneficiary.

Totally lacking in quality in comparison was the competition in the girls' section where in view of the just eight players in the under-19 section, the top two Joshna Chinappa and Vaidehi Reddy have been given bye to the semifinals and will take the court only tomorrow.

The results (all quarterfinals):

Boys: Under-19: Siddarth Suchde (Mah) bt Abhimanyu Jain (Del) 9- 2, 9-0, 9-0; Supreet Singh (Mah) bt Shiv Dewan (Del) 0-9, 9-4, 1- 9, 9-4, 9-4; Sahil Vora (Mah) bt Neerav Tomar (Del) 9-5, 9-1, 6- 9, 9-5; Varun Kataruka (Bih) bt Dhruv Dhawan (Del) 8-10, 9-0, 10- 9, 9-2.

Under-17: Gaurav Nandrajog (Del) bt Digvijay Ahwalat (Raj) 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Vikas Jangra (Mah) bt Anurag Gill (Mah) 5-9, 3-9, 9-2, 9-6, 9-4; Mihir Sheth (Mah) bt Kabir Kapoor (Mah) 9-3, 9-7, 9-3; Saurav Ghosal (WB) bt Karan Singh (Del) 9-0, 9-7, 9-2.

Under-15: Sandeep Jangra (Mah) bt Raghav Mahajan (MP) 9-7, 7-9, 9-0, 9-1; Sarvesh Chauhan (Mah) bt Naresh Kumar (Del) 7-9, 9-4, 9-5, 9-3; Manek Mathur (Mah) bt Sadiq Madraswala (Mah) 7-9, 9-2, 9-2, 10-9; Fateh Singh (MP) bt Gautam Kalani (Mah) 1-9, 9-5, 10- 8, 9-3.

Under-13: Naishad Lalwani (Mah) bt Nitin Chauhan (Mah) 9-1, 9-0, 9-2; Laxman Joshi (Mah) w/o Jay Dalal (Mah); Jay Bhagat (Mah) bt Arnish Uberoi (TN) 9-1, 9-4, 9- 3; Vikram Malhotra (Mah) bt Prashanth Kumar (TN) 9-3, 9-5, 9-0.

Under-11: Ramit Tandon (WB) bt Satvik Joshi (TN) 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; V. Akash (TN) bt Pushpit Garg (TN) 4-9, 9-7, 5-9, 9-6, 9-2; Zahan Dastur (Mah) bt Dev Kalani (Mah) 9-3, 9-1, 9-4; Ravi Dixit (Del) bt Siddhant Pai (TN0 9-0, 9-2, 9-0.

Girls: Under-19: Rhea Bhandare (Mah) bt Nusrat Madraswala (Mah) 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Rachita Vora (Mah) w/o C. Vijaylakshmi (TN).

Under-17: Divya Rajan (TN) bt Shreya Sumiya (MP) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Shaila Pandole (Mah) bt Bhakti Vyas (MP) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Radhika Kashyap (MP) bt Bhaktiveda Dhaul (Mah) 9-0, 9-3, 9-0; Alisha Mashruwala (Mah) bt Ira Trivedi (MP) 9-3, 9-1, 9-0.

Under-15: Natasha Lall (Mah) bt Chindu Govindraj (TN0 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; B. Aarthi (TN) bt Sruthi Reddy (TN) 9-1, 9-3, 9-2; Shenaz Dastur (Mah) bt Aditi Baweja (MP) 9-2, 9-4, 9-4; Sonali Philip (TN) bt Sharanya Viswamani (TN) 9-5, 9-0, 9-2.

Under-13: Nikita Emanuel (Mah) bt Dipika Pallikal (TN) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; V. Anwesha (TN) bt Harita Omprakash (TN) 9-7, 9-4, 9-1; Surbhi Misra (Raj) bt Shruthi K. Bansbaraj (TN) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Shibani Philip (TN) bt Shruti Dugar (TN) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0.

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