Squash: Tushar Shahani, Ashita Bhengra advance into finals

Top seeds Tushar Shahani of Maharashtra and Ashita Pranaya Bhengra of Tamil Nadu marched into the boys’ and girls’ under-17 finals respectively in the NSCI Indian Classic Junior Open squash championship in Worli on Saturday

Top seeds Tushar Shahani of Maharashtra and Ashita Pranaya Bhengra of Tamil Nadu marched into the boys’ and girls’ under-17 finals respectively in the NSCI Indian Classic Junior Open squash championship in Worli on Saturday.

Nikita Joshi

In the boys’ semi-final encounter, Tushar beat Utkarsh Baheti of Rajasthan 11-9, 8-11, 11-8, 11-8. The second semi-final, an all-Maharashtra affair, Arman Jindal beat unseeded Veer Chotrani 11-6, 5-11, 12-14, 12-10, 11-6. In the girls’ under-17 last four match, Ashita charged to 11-6, 11-5, 11-5 win over Navmi Sharma of Maharashtra. Ashita will meet second seed Nikita Joshi of Maharashtra in the final.

Nikita prevailed over Telangana’s Amita Gondi with a scoreline of 11-9, 11-9, 11-9.

Hong Kong’s top seed Tin Yan Lau and Sin Yuk Chan, won their respective girls’ under-15 semi-final ties to set up a summit clash. Tin Yan defeated Maharashtra’s Ananya Dabke 11-8, 11-5, 11-8, while Sin Yuk overcame Avani Nagar also from Maharashtra 11-4, 11-7, 11-9.

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