Ekam Singh made to sweat
December 13, 2017, Greater Noida
Reference: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/ekam-singh-made-to-sweat/article21569940.ece
Fifth seed Ekam Singh had to sweat it out before defeating Ishaan Nayar 11-2, 14-12, 9-11, 7-11, 12-10 in the under-15 boys’ pre-quarterfinal of the second HCL international junior- ranking squash tournament here on Tuesday.
In the quarterfinals, Ekam will play Jay Vaknalli, who breezed past Vasuman Baisla in straight games.
In the girls’ under-17 pre-quarterfinals, Aamna Munjal beat Adya Wadhwa 11-4, 11-5, 12-10, which was an exception as most of the other matches were one-sided.
The results (pre-quarterfinals):
Boys: Under-19: Rahul Baitha bt Akash Banodha 11-7, 11-7, 11-8; Jairaj Singh bt Jaideep Singh Sethi 11-6, 11-6, 11-6; Inderjit Singh bt Mridul Rawat 11-6, 11-1, 11-2; Shivam Bansal bt Nitish Rana 11-7, 11-5, 11-8; Vivaan Jaikishan bt Madhav Bahety 11-8, 11-6, 11-3; Vaibhav Chauhan bt Kunal Singh 11-9, 11-5, 11-4; Siddharth Rathore bt Aayaan Bery 11-7, 11-7, 11-9; Aryan Parakh bt Aryaman Dhiman 11-1, 11-7, 11-4.
Under-17: Sankalp Anand w/o J. Rithik; Abhir Khanna bt Keshav Pillai 11-6, 11-9, 11-4; Didar Rebello bt Rohan Padhye 11-7, 11-4, 11-7; Lakshit Bohra bt Niranjan Sundararajan 11-9, 13-11, 11-4; Diwakar Singh bt Mayank Sachdeva 11-2, 11-4, 11-2; Shubham Sehgal bt Ashwin Kandath 13-11, 11-4, 11-7; Shaurya Verma bt Shanay Sanghavi 11-9, 11-3, 12-10; Prithvi Singh bt Gaurav Kumar 11-1, 11-2, 11-3.
Under-15: Jaivir Singh Dhillon bt Prithvi Yadav 11-5, 11-3, 11-3; Kulvir Sharma bt Ahaan Bhansali 11-7, 11-5, 6-11, 11-9; Ekam Singh bt Ishaan Nayar 11-2, 14-12, 9-11, 7-11, 12-10; Jay Vaknalli bt Vasuman Baisla 11-4, 11-5, 11-2; Aryan Khandelwal bt Nakshtra Sharma 11-3, 11-4, 11-1; Aaryaman Jaising bt Saatwik Narang 11-6, 11-4, 11-5; Kabir Rebello bt Siddhant Sinha 5-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-3; Athrva Yadav bt Abhishek Yadav 11-2, 11-0, 11-3.
Under-13: Yuvraj Wadhwani bt Raj Yadav 11-2, 11-3, 11-3; Dhairya Shah bt Arush Chatterjee 9-11, 11-4, 11-5, 7-11, 11-5; Ansh Tripathi bt Meyyappan 11-0, 11-1, 11-5; Devrath Singh Bisht bt Rajasmin Sharma 11-1, 8-11, 11-7, 11-9; Shaurya Bawa bt Aadi Tayal 11-2, 11-1, 11-1; Vivaan Bhatia bt Arjun Gupta 11-4, 11-3, 11-2; Aryan Pratap Singh bt Karan Yadav 11-4, 11-9, 5-11, 2-11, 11-9; Rutva Samant bt Abhyuday Singh 11-1, 11-1, 11-3.
Under-11: Ekambir Singh bt Siddhant Sharma 11-3, 11-0, 11-3; Udit Mishra bt Dhruv Khanna 11-2, 11-9, 13-11; Dev Sharma bt Shaurya Gautam 11-0, 11-0, 11-2; Anshuman Jaising bt Ayush Pal 12-10, 11-3, 11-5; Aakash Kannan bt Hriday Rajani 11-8, 11-5, 11-5; Saarthak Bhargava bt Raghav Vashishtha 11-0, 11-4, 11-0; Ritwik Singh bt Arjun Morey 11-6, 11-6, 11-9; Gurveer Singh bt Agastya Bansal 11-3, 11-4, 11-5.
Girls: Under-17: Megha Bhatia bt Shamita Yadav 11-1, 11-6, 11-2; Naira Kothari w/o Smriti Bajaj; Aamna Munjal bt Adya Wadhwa 11-4, 11-5, 12-10.
Under-15: Parinistha Surya bt Shreeya Ghosh 11-1, 11-3, 11-9; Aarzoo Dhindsa w/o Suhana Chopra; Gurlin Kaur bt Sonam Pahlajani 11-3, 11-0, 11-2; Nehmat Mann bt Navya Gupta 11-0, 11-4, 11-6; Tishaa Lalith Bokadia bt Alma Ali 11-5, 11-8, 11-6.
Under-13: Nandini Jain bt Aadrita Gupta 11-3, 11-0, 11-3; Maansha Bohra bt Vedika Kapoor 11-2, 11-2, 11-1; Vasudha Surange bt Khushi Puranik 11-2, 11-1, 11-5; Chitrangda Goel bt Perina Sharma 11-1, 11-4, 11-0.
Under-11: Anahat Singh bt Dhrith Kandpal 11-2, 11-1, 11-0; Pia Singh bt Chhavi Saran 11-3, 11-6, 11-8; Navya Sundararajan bt Diva Shah 11-3, 11-8, 11-1; Diya Dhillon bt Narayni Yadav 11-2, 11-3, 11-6; Unnati Tripathi bt Aranya Chopra 11-4, 11-2, 11-2; Ipsa Mishra bt Aradhya Porwal 11-4, 11-1, 11-3; Ritwika Singh bt Sanvi Batar 11-6, 11-9, 11-3; Khushboo bt Raheeni Bhargava 11-4, 11-2, 11-3.
