Minor upsets notwithstanding, matches went according to seedings in the 55th ICL National Squash Championship in Chennai on Wednesday.
Chandigarh boy Harinderpal Singh Sandhu caused a major upset, scalping sixth seeded Pakistani Shamsul Islam Khan en route to the quarter-finals of the Chennai Open Professional Squash championship on Thursday. Harinderpal, ranked 143 in the world, had to exert every sinew before winning 12-10, 9-11, 11-1, 13-11 in 39 minutes.
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.
Dipika Pallikal stunned top seed Christina Mak of Hong Kong in straight games to storm into the semi-finals of the ICL Chennai Open Squash tournament on Friday. The fifth seeded Indian beat her higher-ranked opponent 9-7, 9-5, 9-3 in 34 minutes.
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In the semifinal, he will take on lowly ranked Omar Tarek Mahm Aly of Egypt.
They beat Harinder Pal Singh and Gaurav Nandrajog respectively in straight sets in the men's semi-finals of the National Squash Championships.
Gaurav Nandrajog whipped Angad Marwah of Maharashtra in a second round match of the HSBC-Bombay Gymkhana Maharashtra State Open Squash championships.
Top seed Saurav Ghosal will take on title contender and fifth seed Mohammed El Shorbagy of Egypt in the semi-finals of the fifth ICL Chennai Open Squash tournament.
The Indian aces scored easy victories in the pre-quarter-finals of the one-star ICL PSA World Professional Squash championship.
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Dipika Pallikal defeated India teammate Joshana Chinappa in a close contest to enter the final of WSA Granite Open squash tournament in Toronto on Thursday.
'While in Chennai, I play alone. It gets lonely at times because you wish for someone to play with you,' says Joshna Chinnappa, India's number one squash player.
Gaurav Nandrajog and Mandy Kennedy of England scored contrasting victories to win the men's and women's titles respectively in the HSBC-Bombay Gymkhana Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
The Indian pair went down 1-3 to defending champions Australia in the men's final of the World Doubles Squash Championship at Chennai.
The country's leading players will be in action in the CCI-Western India Open squash tournament, in Mumbai from November 21 to 27.
They lifted the men's and women's titles respectively of the 62nd CCI-Western India Squash championship.
Top seeded Joshna Chinappa is a step away from retaining the girls title in the Asian Squash Individual Championship.
They clinched the under-19 and under-15 titles in the Inter-State squash championships.
Joshna Chinappa beat Hong Kong's Annie Au to retain the women's title while Saurav Ghosal was outplayed by Amir Atlas Khan of Pakistan in the men's final of the 12th Asian Junior Squash championship.
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.
'Xi's meeting with Modi in the southern Indian city of Chennai on Friday and Saturday is expected to focus more on the two countries' historical and present differences, and how to move beyond them to realise their cooperation potential'
Tamil Nadu's Saurav Ghoshal and Joshna Chinappa clinched a double crown each in the Indian Oil Open Squash tournament.
The Tamil Nadu lass, after bagging the girls' under-15 title, stormed into the women's and girls' under-19 finals, in the 62nd CCI-Western India Open squash.
Corren will play second seed Mark Heather of England in the final of the Chennai Open 2003 PSA Championship.
The Indian ace beat Stefan Leifels of Germany in the quarter-finals of the Chennai Open PSA Squash Championship.
England won the quarter-final clash 3-0 to set up a semi-final meeting with Egypt in the World junior men's squash championship.
The lone Indian left in the fray in the World junior squash championship was beaten by second seed and favourite Peter Barker in the pre-quarter-finals.
Top seeded Khan dropped a game before beating unseeded Fateh Singh in the boys' under-17 in the Servo Open squash championship.
Saurav Ghosal and Gaurav Nandrajog sailed into the last eight in the boys' under-19 Oil-Servo Open squash championship.
The top seeded Indian will meet Delia Arnold of Malaysia next in the Asian Junior squash tournament.
They scored contrasting victories in the quarter-finals of the Asian Junior squash championships.
India's top-ranked player Dipika Pallikal remains firm on her stance of not being part of the premier domestic event until equal prize money is offered to male and female participants.
Pakistan dethroned England to win the World junior men's squash crown after a lapse of 20 years.
England quelled a strong challenge from Egypt,while Pakistan beat Australia in the semi-finals of the World junior men's squash championship.
A 3-0 victory over Scotland enabled the Indians make the quarter-finals of the World junior men's squash championship for the first time.
Two others, Saurav Ghosal and Gaurav Nandrajog, lost their matches from winning positions in the second round of the World junior men's squash championship\n\n
Teen sensation Kush Kumar won India's first gold medal at the second Asian Youth Games after defeating Malaysia's Mohammad Syafiq Mohd Kamal in the men's singles squash competition, in Nanjing, China on Monday.
A miffed WFI feared that it could be penalised by the world body United World Wrestling (UWW), if Pakistani grapplers were denied Visa.
Indian squash hierarchy will be put to the test in the semi-finals of the Granite Open when the country's top two players Dipika Pallikal and Joshana Chinappa.
