Tamil Nadu’s Meyyappan wins squash thriller

Meyyappan, a small-town lad from Tuticorin, training for the past six years at the Gamesville Sports Academy, prevailed over Priyanshu, ranked in the 9-16 bracket, winning 13-15, 11-8, 7-11, 11-6, 11-5 to enter the pre-quarter-finals, where he will meet Maharashtra’s Yuvraj Wadhwani, seeded 3-4

Tamil Nadu’s Meyyappan L showed a good degree of grit and stamina to get the better of his higher ranked opponent, UP’s Priyanshu Kumar in five games in a Boys U-17 4th round match of the Shoppers Stop Junior & Sub-Junior National Squash Championships, presented by Bombay Gymkhana at their glass backed squash courts on Monday.

Meyyappan, a small-town lad from Tuticorin, training for the past six years at the Gamesville Sports Academy, prevailed over Priyanshu, ranked in the 9-16 bracket, winning 13-15, 11-8, 7-11, 11-6, 11-5 to enter the pre-quarter-finals, where he will meet Maharashtra’s Yuvraj Wadhwani, seeded 3-4.

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