In the semifinal, he will take on lowly ranked Omar Tarek Mahm Aly of Egypt.
Top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya survived a few tense moments before beating fourth seed Pakistan's Bilal Zaman in a five-game thriller to clinch the NSC Super Satellite Squash championship in Kuala Lumpur on Monday.
World junior No. 2 Joshna Chinappa denied 14-year-old Dipika Pallikal a third title cruising to a 9-5, 10-8, 9-1 victory at the CCI-Western India Open Squash Tournament.
India number two Ritwik Bhattacharya won his maiden $ 15,000 professional squash players association challenger series when he defeated compatriot Saurav Ghosal in a closely fought final in Chennai on Saturday.
Ritwik Bhattacharya dethroned Saurav Ghosal to regain the men's crown, while Joshna Chinappa retained the women's title in the Sr National Squash Championships.
Ritwik Bhattacharya beat Dylan Bennet in 25 minutes to win the ICL Chennai Open world squash championship
Top seeds Ritwik Bhattacharya and Joshna Chinappa won the the men's and women's Open titles respectively in the 64th CCI-Western India Open Squash Championships on Sunday. The formidable Bhattacharya scored a 9-7, 9-1, 9-2 triumph over second seed Sandeep Jangra while Chinappa overcame England's Mandy Kennedy 9-5, 9-5, 9-2 in the women's final.
Indian challenge ended early at the third World doubles squash championships in Melbourne on Tuesday.
The Indian defeated Englishman Sam Miller 11-8, 11-9, 9-11, 12-10 in the final to claim his second title in a fortnight.
India's No.1 will take on Gaurav Nandrajog in the men's final in the CCI-Western India Open Squash Tournament.
The Indian ace made it to the quarter-final even as five of his compatriots fell by the wayside in the first Chennai 2003 PSA Open Squash Championship.
The only Indian to win a PSA title said psychological training and yoga worked wonders for me.
It is for the first time that two Indians have qualified into the main draw of the Super-Series Squash Championship.
Top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya was made to work hard for his 7-9, 9-1, 9-7, 9-1 victory over Maharashtra's Vikram Malhotra at the Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
Former India number one Ritwik Bhattacharya was on Monday left out of the 10-member Indian squash team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi from October 3-14.
He went down to Canada's Shawn De Lierre 10-12, 10-12, 11-7, 11-4, 7-11 in the quarter-final of the Atlanta Open.
They lifted the men's and women's titles respectively of the 62nd CCI-Western India Squash championship.
Joshna Chinnapa climbed three places to 51st in the latest world squash rankings.
Ritwik Bhattacharya and Joshna Chinappa booked their place in the quarter-final with contrasting wins at the Asian Games.
The Indian ace beat Stefan Leifels of Germany in the quarter-finals of the Chennai Open PSA Squash Championship.
The men's top seed outclassed Chandan Jadhav in the Rs 600,000 Herald Maritime Open Squash Championships.
Second seed Ritwik Bhattacharya of India shocked top seed and world No 11 Mohd. Azlan Iskandar of Malaysia 12-10, 11-9, 11-1 to clinch the men's Open title in the 33rd Bombay Gymkhana-HSBC Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships, at the Bombay Gymkhana on Friday. Women's top seed and India No 1 Joshna Chinappa overcame second seed Dipika Pallikal 12-10, 11-9, 11-9 to snatch the women's crown.
The Indian pair beat the American duo of Jaime Crombie and Preston Quick in the semi-finals of the Chennai Open.
The country's leading players will be in action in the CCI-Western India Open squash tournament, in Mumbai from November 21 to 27.
The Indian ace beat world number 46 Kashif Shuja of Pakistan in the final of the Royal Oak squash Open.
The Indian aces scored easy victories in the pre-quarter-finals of the one-star ICL PSA World Professional Squash championship.
The top two Indian players may meet again during the national squash championships.
Ritwik Bhattacharya failed to continue the momentum and went down against sixth seed Matthew Giuffre at the Atlanta Open squash championship.
The two players registered contrasting semi-final victories at the PSA Otters Open Squash tournament.
Corren will play second seed Mark Heather of England in the final of the Chennai Open 2003 PSA Championship.
Saurav Ghosal and Ritwik Bhattacharya are a step away from entering the main draw of the British Open Squash Championships after advancing to the finals of the qualifiers in Manchester.
The national squash champion will play tournaments in Spain and Qatar in a bid to break into the top 64 and qualify.
Ritwik gave a good account before losing to second seeded Mohd Ali Anwar Reda of Egypt 11-2, 6-11, 5-11, 11-7, 6-11 in a 56 minute marathon.
The Indian ace crushed qualifier Sachin Jadhav 9-2, 9-1, 9-1 to enter the quarter-finals at the Western India Open Squash Championship.
Second seed Saurav Ghosal upset top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya to win the PSA Squash tournament at the Otters Club in Mumbai on Sunday.
Ritwik Bhattacharya beat fourth seed Egyptian Mohammed Essam A Hafiz in the Kolkata International Squash Championship.
Ritwik outclassed Supreet Singh in the second round of the qualifiers at the Kolkata International Squash tournament.
Ritwik Bhattacharya lost to world No. 4 James Willstrop 11-13, 11-13, 5-11 in the first round of the Liverpool 08 Squash Open
The Indian pair went down 1-3 to defending champions Australia in the men's final of the World Doubles Squash Championship at Chennai.
Top seed Joshna Chinappa and Deepali Anwekar-Parikh will contest the women's final in the \nSenior National and Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
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