Mumbai : Second seed Ananya Morey waltzed into the semi-final round of the girls’ under-13 event of the Indian Squash Professional (ISP) organised Rs 80,000 prize-money JVPG-ISP Squash Challenge-League 2, being played at the Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana courts. This event is the 117th tournament to be conducted by ISP. In a quarter-final encounter, Morey was in total control in brushing aside Mona Chauhan winning in straight games at 11-2, 11-5, 11-1. In another match, third seed Bhavna Goyel dropped the opening game against Rani Gupta, but recovered well to win the subsequent three games to clinch a deserving a 8-11, 11-5, 11-2, 11-2 victory to advance to the semi-finals.
Results (all quarterfinals) – Boys’ under-11: Rutva Samant w/o Ranbir Minocha; Adityavardhan Oberoi bt Hunarpal Singh Kohli 11-2, 11-5, 11-8; Adhish Kancharla w/o Jishnu Thakker; Prakash Aujhi bt Samar Gandhi 11-4, 11-5, 11-4. Girl’s under-13: Aishwarya Khubchandani bt Sonali Gupta 11-0, 11-1, 11-3; 4-Anjali Samwal bt Archita Singh 11-6, 11-6, 11-4; 3-Sarah Vethekar bt Tanishka Jain 12-10, 11-4, 11-4; Saisha Gupta bt Kajal Mourya 11-5, 11-4, 11-1. Girls’ under-17: 4-Sunita Patel w/o Aditi Raheja; 3-Bhavna Goyel bt Rani
Gupta 8-11, 11-5, 11-2, 11-2; 2-Anannya Morey bt Mona Chauhan 11-2 ,11-5, 11-1. Under-9: 1-Ekambir Singh bt Raayan Hemrajani 11-4, 11-3, 11-1.
