Hong Kong's top seeds Chan Chi, Ho Ka sail into third round

Hong Kong's number one seed Chan Chi Ho and second seed Ho Ka Hei, both won their respective second round encounters in the 9th Indian Junior Open Squash tournament here.

The Asian Squash Federation Platinum tournament has been organised by the city-based Bombay Gymkhana.

Chan Chi Ho tamed Miheer Prakash (India) 11-1, 11-1, 11-3, while Ho Ka Hei had quite a fight on hand from India's Vaibhav Chauhan. But he managed to come through, winning at 11-6, 11-8, 11-7 to advance to the third round.

Meanwhile, India's Ananya Dabke, the top seed in the girls' under-15 event cruised past her compatriot Netra Krishna 11-5, 11-2, 11-1 in a first round match.
 

Three Malaysian players also got past the girls' under-15 first round with relative ease, all at the expense of Indian girls.

Yasshmita Jadishkumar tamed Antara Pande 11-1, 11-3, 11-2; Aira Azman outclassed Aanchal Rathor 11-1, 11-0, 11-3 and Yu Ng Chen defeated Veda Pendyala 11-3, 11-2, 11-4.

Sri Lanka's Tharushi Kavindya Maganaarachchi, advanced to the second round after trouncing India's Shivani Chaudhary 11-4, 11-1, 11-0.

Results - Boys' Under-17 (2nd round): Saksham Choudhary (Ind) beat Atharva Belsare (Ind) 11-0 11-4 11-3; Chung Yat Long (Hong Kong) beat Mridul Rawat (Ind) 11-8 11-2 11-4; Arman Jindal (USA) bt Arjun Singh (Ind) 11-3 11-6 11-4; Yash Fadte (Ind) bt Varun Billa (Ind) 11-3 11-1 11-1; Gautam Nagpal (Ind) bt Pranav Srinivas (Ind) 11-2 11-1 11-1.

Boys' Under-19 (2nd round): Chan Chi Ho (Hong Kong) bt Miheer Prakash (Ind) 11-1, 11-1, 11-3; Vikas Mehra (Ind) bt Kunal Singh (Ind) 11-4 11-5 11-2; Anav Aggarwal (Ind) bt Ritik Shah 12-10 11-4 11-2; Rahul Baitha (Ind) bt Akash Ashokumar (Ind) 11-4 11-7 11-3; Lam Yat Ting (Hong Kong) bt Shaan Dalal (Ind) 11-4 11-8 11-8; Ho Ka Hei (Hong Kong) bt Vaibhav Chauhan (Ind) 11-6 11-8 11-7.

Girls' Under-15 (1st round): 1-Ananya Dabke (Ind) bt Netra Krishna (Ind) 11-5 11-2 11-1; Tanishka Jain (Ind) bt Ishpreet Kaur Mundra (Ind) 11-2 11-1 11-1; Anis Sofea Mohd Arif (Malaysia) bt Barkha Seth (Ind) 11-4 11-1 11-1; Sujithra Ap Kunasekaran (Malaysia) bt Sakshi Karnani (Ind) 11-7 11-4 11-3.

Sunita Patel (Ind) bt Malavika Ajith (Ind) Retired; Anjali Semwal (Ind) bt Miraya Gupta (Ind) 11-9 11-8 11-6; 3/ Aryaa Ogale (Ind) bt Anushka Rawat (Ind) 11-4 11-5 11-6; 3/ Aishwarya Khubchandani (Ind) bt Trina Iris (Ind) 11-2 11-2 11-4; Yasshmita Jadishkumar (Malaysia) bt Antara Pande (Ind) 11-1 11-3 11-2; Aira Azman (Malaysia) bt Aanchal Rathor (Ind) 11-1 11-0 11-3; Avani Nagar (Ind) bt Gigi Pandole (USA) 11-3 11-3 11-2; Abhisheka Shannon (Ind) bt Sarah Vethekar (Ind) 11-4 12-10 14-16 14-12; Yu Ng Chen (Malaysia) bt Veda Pendyala (Ind) 11-3 11-2 11-4; Tharushi Kavindya Maganaarachchi (Sri Lanka) bt Shivani Chaudhary (Ind) 11-4 11-1 11-0.