Nikita in second round in girls u-15 Little Masters squash meet

Mumbai, Sep 19 (UNI) Indore's Nikita Mann today outplayed Delhi's Diya Kumar in three straight games to reach the Girls under-15 second round in the SKF India sponsored Little Masters All India Junior Squash Tournament, 2006 organised by the Willingdon Sports Club, at their own courts, here.

In the Boys u-13 matches, Maharashtra's Hemant Manjrekar, Abhishek Agarwal and Awadesh Yadav advanced easily to the second round. In the first round, Hemant beat Varun Madhwkar 10-8, 9-1, 9-2, Abhishek beat Shailesh Sharma 9-7, 9-1, 9-0 and Awadesh defeated Rahul Soni in four sets 7-9, 9-2, 9-3, 9-5.

Following are the results: Boys u-15 (1st round): Jagannath Kuyte bt Nitin Singh 9-4, 9-6, 9-5; Sashi Pareek bt Awadesh Yadav 9-5, 9-4, 9-8.

Boys u-13 (1st round): Hemant Manjrekar bt Varun Madhwkar 10-8, 9-1, 9-2; Awadesh Yadav bt Shailesh Sharma 9-7, 9-1, 9-0; Sashi Pareek bt Nikhil Misra 9-2, 9-1, 9-0; Abhishek Agarwal bt Rahul Soni 7-9, 9-2, 9-3, 9-5; Dhananjay Singh (Indore) bt Raj Saran 9-1, 9-0, 9-2.

Boys u-11 (1st round): Aradhya Kasliwal (Indore) bt Isha Budhwal 9-5, 9-5, 5-9, 9-6; Mahir Chadda bt Mohit Yadav 9-7, 9-4, 9-1; Rajat Agarwal bt Utsav Thakur 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Karan Kochhar bt Roshan Sharma 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Madhav Gupta bt Rohan Advani 10-9, 9-4, 9-2; Chaitanya Desai bt Nishikant Khapre 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; 1-Arjun Kochhar bt Nikhil Mishra 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Ravindra Dhoria bt Aditya Singh 7-9, 9-4, 9-2, 9-5; Aditya Khatri bt Mudit Gupta 9-1, 9-0, 9-1; Yaduveer Singh (Indore) bt Mahir Chaddha 9-3, 9-3, 9-2; Kunj Rawani bt Arjun Mehra 9-0, 9-0, 9-0.

Girls u-15 (1st round): Nikita Mann (Indore) bt Diya Kumar (Delhi) 9-0, 9-0, 10-8; Anju Sharma bt Varsha Pandey 9-3, 9-3, 9-4; Urvashi Joshi bt Ruchi Mishra 9-1, 9-0, 9-3; Sachika Balwani bt Anisha Malhotra 9-1, 9-0, 9-0.

Boys&Girls u-9 (2nd round): Roshan Sharma bt Aishwarya Bhattacharya 9-4, 9-1, 9-0.

(1st round): Ishaan Mehra bt Rayan Madan 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Ben Kennedy (England) bt Isha Budhwal (Indore) 10-8, 9-5, 9-0; Sandeep Paswan bt Mohit Yadav 9-7, 9-0, 2-9, 9-1; Roshan Sharma bt Ardehl Nainan 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Rajat Agarwal bt Ankit Jayant 9-0, 9-2, 9-1; Jui Kalgutkar bt Aditya Mehra 9-2, 9-6, 5-9, 9-4; Trilok Sadarangani bt Esha Modi 9-5, 9-1, 9-0.

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