Squash: Mangaonkar, Malhotra enter second round with ease

Also through to the second round was recently crowned national champion and top seed, Mahesh Mangaonkar, who was awarded a walkover by opponent Rushabh Vora of Maharashtra.

The joint third-fourth seeds Ranjit Singh of UP and Abhishek Pradhan of Mahrashtra also advanced into round two.

Ranjit had to fight hard to overcome Naveen Jangra of Servives 11-7, 11-13, 11-6, 11-4 while Pradhan subdued his junior state-mate Neel Joshi 11-7, 12-10, 11-9 the first round.

Neel, the top seed in the boys under-17 category, had earlier tasted success by overcoming Amaan Habibulla, also from Maharashtra, 11-6, 11-3, 11-2 to advance into the quarter-finals of the 10th Indian Junior Open, which is being conducted concurrently.

Second seed 2-Diwakar Singh of UP also advanced to the last eight defeating Rajasthans Nakshtra Sharma 11-5, 11-4, 11-4.

Results: Men (1st round): 1-Mahesh Mangaonkar (MH) W/O Rushabh Vora (MH); Yash Fadte (GA) beat Rahul Baitha (SE) 5-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-7; Vikas Mehra (TN) beat Anuj Unadkat (MH) 11-6, 11-7, 6-11, 11-5; 3/ 4-Ranjit Singh (UP) beat Naveen Jangra 11-7, 11-13, 11-6, 11-4; 3/ 4-Abhishek Pradhan (MH) beat Neel Joshi (MH) 11-7. 12-10, 11-9; Abhishek Agarwal (MH) beat Abhinav Sinha 11-7, 11-9, 11-6; Jamal Sakib (UP) beat Awdesh Yadav (SE) 17-15, 11-9, 12-10; 2-Vikram Malhotra (MH) beat Kunj Rawani 11-7, 11-9, 11-6.

Boys U-13 (1st round): 1-Arihant Ks (TN) beat Arush Chatterjee (DL) 11-0, 6-11, 11-6, 11-5); Vivaan Bhatia (MH) beat Aditya Chandani (MH) 11-6, 11-5, 4-11, 6-11, 12-10; Adhish Kancharla (MH) beat Priyaan Thakker (MH) 11-4, 11-6, 11-4; 3/ 4-Siddhant Rewari (MH) beat Arjun Somani (MH) 12-14, 11-4, 11-1, 11-4; Ekambir Singh (MH) beat 3/ 4-Tavneet Singh Mundra (MP) 12-10, 11-7, 6-11; Dhruv Khanna (MH) beat Omar Mohamed (EGY) 11-2, 11-2, 11-4; Siddharth Bhandari (MH) beat Dev Sharma (MH) 12-10, 11-6, 4-11, 9-11, 11-6; 2-Avalokit Singh (RJ) beat Sandhesh Pr (TN)9-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-6.

Girls U-13 (2nd round): 1-Khushboo (UP) W/O Tanya Ahuja (MH); Jiya Chotrani (MH) beat Sharon Jeffy Doss (TN) 11-4, 11-8, 11 -1; Unnati Tripathi (UK) beat Saara Joukani (MH) 11-6, 9-11, 11-5, 11-7; 3/ 4-Nayna Taneja (MH) beat Mahika Rakshit (MH) 11-4, 11-6, 11-3; 3/ 4-Nandini Jain (DL) beat Shreya Narang (MH) 11-9, 11-5, 11-3; Swetha Sivakumar (SIN) beat Perina Sharma (DL) 11-1, 11-7, 11-4; Diya Dhillon (DL) W/O Tisha Jasani (MH); 2-Aleya Masand (MH) beat Anya Mistry (MH) 11-3, 11-4, 11-7.

Boys U-15 (1st round): 1-Paarth Ambani (MH) beat Yuvraj Wadhwani (MH) 11-4, 11-2, 11-5; Sharan Punjabi (MH) beat Arin Khot (MH) 8-11, 11-8, 14-12, 11-8; Krishna Mishra (MP) beat Om Semwal (MH) 7-11, 11-4, 9-11, 11-3,  12-10; 3/ 4-Vivaan Shah (MH) beat Sunny Yadav (MH) 11-5, 11-6, 11-5; 3/ 4-Rutva Samant (MH) beat Abhishek Banodha (MP) 11-9, 11-5, 12-10; Jeh Pandole (MH) beat Devay Mehta (MH) 12-10, 8-11, 2-11, 11-4, 11-2; Ansh Tripathi (UK)  beat Anurag Moyde (MP) 12-10 11-9 11-8; 2- Jaivir Singh Dhillon (DL) beat Rohan Ray (KA)11-6, 11-6, 11-5.

Girls U-15 (3rd round): 1-Yuvna Gupta (MH) beat Archita Singh (MH) 11-0, 11-2, 11-3; Tiana Parasrampuria (MH) beat Sakshi Karnani (MH) 11-5, 11-2, 11-8;  Sonya Bajaj (MH) beat Aaryaa Belsare (MH) 11-7, 12-10, 9-11, 11-4; 3/ 4-Pooja Arthi R. (TN) beat Saniya Jaggi (MH) 11-4, 11-5, 11-5; 3/ 4-Uditi Mishra (RJ) beat Vasudha Surange (DL) 11-5, 11-7, 14-12; Tagyaa Parakh (WB) beat Saisha Gupta (MH) 9-11, 11-3, 11-7, 3-11, 11-6; Kaavya Bansal (MH) beat S Akshaya Sri (TN) 11-6, 11-8, 11-4; 2-Aasya Patel (MP) beat Maansha Bohra (RJ) 11-4, 11-6, 12 -10.

Boys U-17 (3rd round): 1-Neel Joshi (MH) beat Amaan Habibulla (MH) 11-6, 11-3, 11-2; Akhilesh Kumar W/O Harnoor Mutneja (UP); R Kishore Arvind (TN) beat Avinash Sahani (MH) 2-11, 11-4, 11-8, 11-4; 3/ 4-Deepak Mandal (MH) beat Krish Shah (MH) 11-6, 11-8, 11-7; Tanay Punjabi (MH) beat Jay Vaknalli (MH) 11-7, 11-9, 7-11, 11-8;  2-Diwakar Singh (UP) beat Nakshtra Sharma (RJ) 11-5, 11-4, 11-4.