Easy for Ghosal, Joshna

Kolkata - Top seeds and title favourites Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinappa, both from Tamil Nadu, led the men’s and women’s singles fields into the quarter-finals of the 60th senior National squash championships with comfortable victories, here Thursday.

Ghosal defeated qualifier Ashish Keskar of Services 11-3, 11-3, 11-9, while Joshna swept past Bihar’s Anupam Kumar 11-0, 11-1, 11-2.

The results:

Men (pre-quarter-finals): 1-Saurav Ghosal (TN) bt Ashish Keskar (Q, Services) 11-3 11-3 11-9; Gaurav Nandrajog (Delhi) bt Ranvijay Singh (TN) 11-9 11-8 13-11; Vikas Jangra (Services) bt Rishi Tandon (TN) 12-10 11-9 3-11 11-1; 3/4-Ravi Dixit (TN) bt Shravan Kaur (WB) 11-6 11-2 11-6; 3/4-Mahesh Mangaonkar (Mah) bt Krish Kapur (WB) 11-2 11-5 11-5; Abhinav Sinha (Mah) bt Arjun Agnihotri (Services) 7-11 11-8 11-1 9-11 11-6; Sandeep Jangra (Services) bt Vivek Dinodia (WB) 11-7 11-9 13-11; 2-Harinder Pal Sandhu (TN) bt Aseem Ingale (Delhi) 11-4 11-7 11-5.

Women (pre-quarter-finals): 1-Joshna Chinappa (TN) bt Anupam Kumari (Bihar) 11-0 11-1 11-2; Kiran Katoch (JK) w/o Neha Rani (Bihar); Janet Vidhi (Delhi) bt Jyoti Singh (Bihar) 11-0 11-1 11-1; 3/4-Vrishrutyi Sahni (Mah) bt Soni Kumari (Bihar) 11-1 11-2 11-1; 3/4-Sachika Ingale (Delhi) bt Sunny Meatha (Bihar) 11-0 11-0 11-0; Aishwarya Bhattacharya (Mah) bt Chandani Kumari (Bihar) 11-0 11-0 11-0; Tamanna (UP) bt Neha Kumari (Bihar) 11-0 11-0 11-1; 2-Anaka Alankamony (TN) bt Mona Kumari (Bihar) 11-2 11-0 11-2.