Maharashtra’s Veer Chotrani and Sunita Patel scored upset wins to enter the men’s and women’s second round of the MSRA 76th senior National squash championship played at multiple venues here. Chotrani eliminated Maharashtra’s Aishwary Singh 9-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-3, 11-3 and Sunita got the better of MP’s Radhika Rathore 11-5, 12-10, 9-11, 11-4.
The results: First round Men: Gaurav Nandrajog (Del) bt Yash Bhargava (Del) 11-7, 5-11, 11-8, 11-1; Veer Chotrani (Mah) bt Aishwary Singh (Mah) 9-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-3, 11-3; Sandeep Jangra (Ser) bt Vijay Kumar (retd., Ser) 11-3, 4-0; Abhishek Agarwal (Mah) bt Ravi Dixit (Ser) 12-10, 11-7, 4-11, 11-9; Ranjit Singh (Ser) bt Rahul Baitha (Mah)11-8, 11-3, 11-6; Jamal Sakib (Ser) bt Awdesh Yadav (Ser) 11-5, 13-11, 11-5.
Over 45: Anoop Kabadwal (Kar) bt Viraj Mudkavi (Mah) 11-8, 12-14, 11-2, 11-3; Vinay Rauthan (Mah) bt Vijay Sonawane (Mah) 11-9, 11-6, 11-6; Ashutosh Pednekar (Mah) bt Shishir Gupta (Mah) 11-7, 11-2, 11-4; Navin Shenoy (Kar) bt Ashish Mehta (Mah) 11-9, 8-11, 5-11, 16-14, 11-9.
Women: Sanika Choudhari (Mah) bt Diya Moolani (Mah) 13-11, 11-6, 11-2; Sunita Patel (Mah) bt Radhika Rathore (MP) 11-5, 12-10, 9-11, 11-4; Tanvi Khanna (Del) bt Yoshna Singh (Mah) 11-9, 11-3, 12-10; Sunayna Kuruvilla (TN) bt Anjali Semwal (Mah) 11-2, 11-8, 11-2; Aparajitha Balamurukan (TN) bt Anwesha Reddy (TN) 11-7, 11-7, 11-7; Sanya Vats (Del) bt Aishwarya Khubchandani (Mah) 11-4, 11-1, 4-11, 11-9.
Professional coach: Mahesh Kadam (Mah) bt Abhishek Gamre (Mah) 8-11, 11-3, 10-12, 11-7, 11-7; Shadab Alam (UP) bt Naresh Banodha (MP) 12-10, 11-2, 12-10; Vikas Jangra (Raj) bt Akash Banodha (MP) 11-3, 11-5, 9-11, 11-7; Jai Singh Thory (Ser) bt Sairaj Marawar (Mah) 11-7, 11-6, 5-11, 10-12, 11-3; Jainendra Bhandari (Mah) bt Tathagat Malhare (Mah) 11-7, 11-3, 11-6 .
