Maheshwari impresses to advance into two semi-finals

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Mumbai, November 20: Aditya Maheshwari enjoyed a successful day with quarter-finals wins in the men’s singles and men’s 35+ singles events of the Indian Squash Professional (ISP) organised Rs two lakh prize-money JVPG-SRAM Winter Squash Open 2016, sponsored by SYSKA LED and played at Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana Club. This is the 125th tournament to be conducted by ISP.
Maheshwari, the joint 3-4 seed in the men’s competition showed exemplary fighting qualities and great skills to ward off the spirited challenge from Puneet Pareek and to carve out a deserving 8-11, 13-11, 8-11, 11-7, 14-12 win to advance to the semi-final.
Earlier, the top seeded Mahaeshwari also progressed to the last four round of men’s 35+ event. He faced quite a fight from Sachin Jadhav before pulling through in three tough games winning at 11-7, 11-9, 11-8.
In other men’s singles quarter-final action, second seed Abhishek Agarwal also booked his place in the semi-final by defeating Karan Mirchandani 11-3 11-9 11-8.
Meanwhile, Amitpal Singh Kohli joined Maheshwari in the semi-final round of the men’s singles 35+ category. Kohli had things much under control and defeated Harjinder Singh in three games at 11-4, 11-9, 11-8.
Results - Mixed Under-11 (quarter-finals): 1-Vivaan Bhatia bt Reyaan Bafna 11-0 11-0 11-0; Dhruv Khanna bt 3 /4-Krishiv Gupta 11-7 11-1 11-9; 3 /4-Raayan Hemrajani bt Shaurya Shah 11-4 11-1 11-6; 2-Kabir Taraporewala bt Vedant Chheda 11-1 11-5 11-3.
Boys' under-17 (quarter-finals): 1-Suraj Chand bt Arjun Singh 11-8 12-10 11-7; Tanay Punjabi bt 3 /4-Avinash Yadav 11-2 11-6 9-11 11-2; Araash Mehta bt Vishal Rajbhar 11-6 11-9 8-11 11-4; 2-Deepak Mandal bt Chandan Kahar 11-4 11-4 11-8.
Men's singles (quarter-finals): 1-Aditya Jagtap bt Amitpal singh Kohli 11-3 11-6 11-3; 3 /4-Aditya Maheshwari bt Puneet Pareek 8-11 13-11 8-11 11-7 14-12; 3 /4-Aishwary Singh bt Sanjay  Pawar 11-7 11-4 11-9; 2-Abhishek Agarwal bt Karan Mirchandani 11-3 11-9 11-8.
Men's singles 35+ (quarter-finals): 1-Aditya Maheshwari bt Sachin Jadhav 11-7 11-9 11-8; 3 /4-Karan Mirchandani bt Viju Waghela 11-3 11-2 11-2; 3 /4-Anil Bhagat bt Benjamin Nedarupali 11-4 11-7 11-4; 2-Amitpal Singh Kohli bt Harjinder Singh 11-4 11-9 11-8.

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