Ghosal and Harinderpal in semifinals

Top seed Saurav Ghosal and second seed Harinderpal Singh Sandhu won back-to-back matches to reach the semifinals of the 38th Bombay Gymkhana-HSBC Maharashtra State open senior squash on Thursday.

The results: Men: Quarterfinals: Harinderpal Singh Sandhu (TN) bt Abhimanyu Shah (Bombay Gym) 11-7, 11-7, 15-13; Saurav Ghosal (Kol) bt Chaitanya Shah (BG) 11-3, 11-6, 11-6; Ravi Dixit (TN) bt Abhinav Sinha 11-5, 11-4, 11-9; Aditya Jagtap bt Rishad Pandole (CCI) 11-8, 11-5, 11-7.

Pre-quarterfinals: Ghosal bt Pranay Jain (WCG) 11-6, 11-8, 11-9; Harinderpal bt Laxman Joshi (Jindal) 11-5, 11-8, 11-9; Dixit bt Yohan Pandole (CCI) 11-3, 11-5, 11-4; Abhimanyu bt Aishwarya Singh (Jindal) 11-6, 11-9, 11-4; Pandole bt Shashi Pandey (Jindal) 11-6, 9-11, 11-5, 11-8; Chaitanya bt Riyan Bhatia (CCI) 5-11, 11-6, 11-6, 6-11, 12-10; Aditya bt Devchand Rai 11-3, 11-1, 11-2.

Women (quarterfinals): Urwashi Joshi (Jindal) bt Diya Sanghi 11-3, 11-1, 11-3; Nikita Joshi (Otters Club) bt Abhilash Bhasin (BG) 11-3, 11-6, 11-5.