Aishwarya upsets 2nd seed Sachika, advances to quarterfinals

Aishwarya Khubchandani fought hard to secure an upset victory over 2nd seed Sachika Balvani 11-13, 11-4, 11-7, 11-7 and advance to the quarterfinals of the Otters Club Vedanta Squash Open here Wednesday.

The Otters Club Vedanta Squash Open is a PSA satellite event and a three-star tournament on the Indian Junior squash circuit.

Aishwarya was leading the 1st game at 7-5, but allowed Sachika to make a comeback.

The game went into an 11-11 tiebreaker after which Sachika used her experience to score back to back winners to take the first game 13-11.

Aishwarya shrugged off her first game loss and dominated the rest of games making very few mistakes to win the tie 11-13,11-4, 11-7, 11-7 and advance to the quarters.

 

In another match 3rd seed Sanya Vats breezed past unseeded Ankita Patil securing an 11-0, 11-0, 11-1 victory.

Results Women Round of 16: Aishwarya Khubchandani bt Sachika Balvani [2] 11-13, 11-4, 11-7, 11-7;Radhika Rathore [5/8] bt Priya Gupta 11-5 11-3 12-10; Sanya Vats [3/4] bt Ankita Patil1 1-0 11-0 11-1

Results Boys U-19 Round 3 Veer Chotrani [1] bt Ajay Singh Bhadoria [9/16] 11-4, 11-3, 11-5; Tushar Shahani [2] bt Niraj Kabra 11-1, 11-1, 11-1; Advait Adik [9/16] bt Vivaan Jaikishan [5/8] 11-4 11-5 11-3; Arnaav Sareen bt Tarun Gusain [9/16]11-3 11-2 11-5 ;Neel Joshi bt Shlok Makhija [9/16] 11-3 11-4 11-2.

Results Men's Round 3: Tushar Shahani bt Vicky Gagat [17/32] 11-3 11-7 11-8; Ravi Dixit bt Guhan Senthilkumar [5/8] 11-9 11-6 11-7; Neel Joshi [17/32] bt Ashish Keskar [9/16] 11-6 11-2 11-8; Ch Arun Kumar [9/16] bt Puminder Kumar [17/32] 11-6 11-6 11-9 ; Ranjit Singh [2] bt Deva Ram Choudhary [17/32] 11-2 11-3 11-5.