Abhishek Pradhan scores easy win over Vivek Dehan

Mumbai, Nov 7 (UNI) Mumbai's top junior Abhishek Pradhan scored an easy boys under-13 third round win over Jindal's Vivek Dehan to sound a warning to his peers in the 31st HSBC-Bombay Gymkhana Maharashtra State Open Squash Championship at the Bombay Gymkhana here today.

The Don Bosco, Borivli, lad came through a comfortable 9-0, 9-2, 9-1 win over Jindal's Vivek Dehan to set the stage for a likely title clash with best friend Mahesh Mangaonkar.

The formidable Mangaonkar also demolished another Jindal rival when he beat a hapless Nitin Singh 9-1, 9-0, 9-1.

As the juniors hogged the limelight again, Aadit Zaveri enjoyed a rewarding day with third round wins in the boys' under-17 and under-15 categories.

Zaveri ended Jindal's Javed Mohammed's run with a 9-5, 9-1, 9-0 win in the under-17, and earlier ended the winning ways of Neville Tata following a 9-2, 9-1, 9-5 win in the under-15.

Vikas Jangra and Supreet Singh also came through easy third round ties in the Men's Open.

Following were the results: Men's Open (3rd round): Vikas Jangra (Mah) bt Raja Parthasarathy (Mah) 9-3, 9-6, 9-1; Supreet Singh (Mah) bt Cyrus Vakil (Mah) 9-3, 9-0, 9-1.

Boys U-19 (2nd round): Akhilesh Nayak (Mah) bt Aditya Gupta (Mah) 9-4, 1-9, 9-4, 9-4; Cyrus Vakil (Mah) bt Rohit Kulshrestha (Mah) 9-10, 9-1, 9-5, 9-2; Naishadh Lalwani (Mah) bt Vakar Pathan (Mah) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Jay Dalal (Mah) bt Kunwarpal Singh (Jindal) 9-2, 9-5, 9-7; Vikram Malhotra (Mah) bt Amay Merchant (Mah) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Sandeep Jangra bt Naishad Lalwani 9-3, 9-3, 9-2.

Boys U-17 (3rd round): Vikram Malhotra (Mah) bt Abhishek Pradhan (Mah) 9-1, 9-5, 9-0; Amay Merchant (Mah) bt Aditya Gupta (Mah) 9-6, 9-3, 10-8; Jay Dalal (Mah) bt Sachin Singh (Jindal) 9-1, 9-1, 9-0; Riyad Seervai (Mah) bt Riyan Bhatia (Mah) 9-2, 9-2, 9-2; Aadit Zaveri (Mah) bt Javed Mohd (Jindal) 9-5, 9-1, 9-0; Cyril Kuhn bt Aakash Borwankar (Mah) 10-8, 9-4, 9-7.

Boys U-15 (3rd round): Abhishek Pradhan (Mah) bt Vivek Dehan (Jindal) 9-0, 9-2, 9-1; Vrishab Kotian (Mah) bt Kahan Gandhi (Jindal) 9-5, 2-9, 9-3, 9-2; Mahesh Mangaonkar (Mah) bt Nitin Singh (Jindal) 9-1, 9-0, 9-1; Aakash Borwankar (Mah) bt Anuj Bahl (Mah) 9-3, 9-0, 9-2; Rahil Fazelbhoy (Mah) bt Ishaan Advani (Mah) 9-5, 9-7, 9-7; Aadit Zaveri (Mah) bt Neville Tata (Mah) 9-2, 9-1, 9-5.

Boys U-13 (3rd round): Ishaan Advani (Mah) bt Naman Jiandani (Mah) 4-9, 9-0, 10-9, 9-5.

Girls U-15 (1st round): Zarina Sani (Mah) bt Sera Merchant (Mah) 9-3, 9-3, 9-0.

Girls U-13 (1st round): Soumya Karki (Jindal) bt Sera Merchant (Mah) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Ruchi Mishra (Jindal) bt Khushy Aggarwal (Mah) 9-3, 9-3, 6-9, 9-3; Shweta Yadav (Jindal) bt Nandini Agarwal (Goa) 9-4, 9-1, 9-5; Urvashi Joshi (Jindal) bt Sanjna Merchant (Mah) 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Varsha Pandey (Jindal) bt Nandini Mullaji (Mah) 9-2, 9-0, 9-0; Anju Sharma (Jindal) bt Rhea Advani (Mah) 9-1, 9-0, 9-0.

Boys U-11 (3rd round): Akhilesh Yadav (Jindal) bt Aashay Kejdiwal (Mah) 9-6, 9-5, 9-7; Madhav Gupta (Mah) bt Aniruddh Amersey (Mah) 10-8, 9-2, 9-0; Kunj Rawani (Mah) bt Shikhar Soni (Mah) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Yohan Pandole (Mah) bt Rohaan Advani (Mah) 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Aditya Singhi (Mah) bt Vishal Yadav (Jindal) 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Karan Kochhar (Mah) bt Viraj Nadkarni (Mah) 2-9, 9-1, 7-9, 9-7, 9-1.

Over-35 (2nd round): Manish Chotrani (Mah) bt Sumeet Rewari (Mah) 9-3, 9-3, 9-1; Vinay Sanghi (Mah) bt Hemant Khera (Mah) 9-4, 9-0, 9-0; Vaman Apte (Mah) bt Miten Mehta (Mah) 9-7, 9-5, 9-5; Raja Parthasarathy (Mah) bt Dr. R. Seshadri (Mah) 9-2, 9-3, 9-5; Chetan Ladiwala (Mah) bt Sanjiv Saran Mehra (Mah) 9-1, 9-0, 9-0.

Professionals (3rd round): Dalip Tripathi bt Kishanlal Passi (Mah) 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Vijay Waghela (Mah) bt Santosh Kharat (Mah) 9-6, 9-5, 7-9, 9-1; Rohit More (Mah) bt Manish Chavan (Mah) 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Gautam Das bt Devdas Tambe (Mah) 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Gopichand Mohite (Mah) bt Uttam Patkar (Mah) 10-9, 9-1, 9-6; Sanjay Pawar (Mah) bt Sanjay Sonavne (Mah) 9-1, 9-4, 9-5.

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