Harita in girls u-19, u-15 quarters of Little Masters junior squash

Mumbai, Sep 20 (UNI) Tamil Nadu's Harita Omprakash played extremely powerful squash to advance to the quarter-finals of the Girls under-19 and under-15 categories of Little Masters All India Junior Squash Tournament 2006, SKF India Ltd sponsored, organised by the Willingdon Sports Club at their court here today.

Seeded second in the girls u-19 category, Harita easily defeated Indore's Tanvi Jain 9-1, 9-0, 9-0 to reach the round of eight, where she will meet Maharashtra's Shria Khatri. In the girls under-15 pre-quarter match she beat Rhea Adavni 9-0, 9-0 9-0 to advance into the quarter-final.

Maharashtra's top seed, Shivangi Paranjpe outplayed Kruti Suchde 9-0, 9-1, 9-0 to enter the u-19 quarter-finals, where she will meet Indore's Nikita Mann, who beat Jindal Squash Academy's Anju Sharma in four sets 3-9, 9-4, 9-7, 9-2.

In the boys u-19 first round matches, Maharashtra's Vikram Malhotra, Akhilesh Nayak and Jindal Squash Academy's Naveen Jangra easily advanced to the second round. In the first round, Vikram beat Shankar Menon 9-1, 9-0, 9-1, Akhilesh beat Aakash Shetty 9-0, 9-0, 9-1 and Naveen Jangra defeated Angad Marwah 9-5, 9-6, 9-7.

Following are the results: Boys u-19 (1st round): Naveen Jangra (Jindal Squash Academy) bt Angad Marwah 9-5, 9-6, 9-7; Vikram Malhotra bt Shankar Menon 9-1, 9-0, 9-1; Akhilesh Nayak bt Aakash Shetty 9-0, 9-0, 9-1.

Boys u-15 (1st round): Yash Bhansali bt Shane Dhondy 9-2, 9-4, 10-9, 9-4; Aditya Kochhar bt Karan Vaidya 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Rahul Shah bt Shrthak Bhatia 9-7, 9-2, 9-3; Piyush Chandani bt Rakshit Sinha 9-6, 9-6, 6-9, 9-3; Rohan Vora bt Somveer Sharma 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Vrishabh Kotian bt Ali Akbar 9-0, 9-6, 9-2; Abhishek Agarwal bt Hemant Manjrekar 9-0, 9-6, 9-6; Neville Tata bt Bharat Verma (Indore) 9-3, 9-3, 9-0; Kunal Khaladkar bt Ranjeet Sharma 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Samir Mistry bt Anirudh Murthy 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; 3-Mahesh Mangaonkar bt Sagar Soni 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Akash Kutty bt Akash Chauhan 9-0, 9-2, 9-0; Akash Borwankar bt Norden Sherya 9-1, 9-2, 9-3; Dhananjay Singh bt Arman Shaikh 9-1, 9-3, 9-0.

Boys&Girls u-9 (2nd round): Sandeep Paswan (Jindal Squash Academy) bt Jui Kalgutkar 9-3, 9-0, 9-2; Trilok Sadarangani bt Hriday Thakker 9-2, 9-0, 9-1; Girls u-19 (pre-quarters): Swati Muchhal (Indore) bt Tanya Arora 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Nikita Mann (Indore) bt Anju Sharma (Jindal Squash Academy) 3-9, 9-4, 9-7, 9-2; 3-Dheeya Somaya (Indore) bt Swarnalatha (TN) 9-6, 9-7, 9-2; 2-Harita Omprakash (TN) bt Tanvi Jain (Indore) 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; 1-Shivangi Paranjpe bt Kruti Suchde 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Saumya Karki bt Shweta Singh (Jindal Squash Academy) 9-2, 9-1, 9-4.

Girls u-15 (2nd round): Shweta Yadav bt Zarina Sani 9-2, 9-1, 9-1; 1-Harita Omprakash (TN) bt Rhea Advani 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Shria Khatri bt Priyanka Merchant 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; 4-Saumya Karki bt Sachika Balwani 9-2, 9-6, 10-9; Swarnalatha (TN) bt Anju Sharma (Jindal Squash Academy) 9-4, 9-3, 9-2.

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