Mumbai: Saurav Ghosal and Joshana Chinappa fashioned comfortable wins to enter the semis, in the Senior National Squash Championship.
Chinappa lived up to her reputation with a 3-0 win over Nikita Joshi of Maharashtra and led second seed Sachika Ingale of UP, third seed Urwashi Joshi of Maharashtra and under-17 national runner-up Aakanksha Salunkhe of Goa into the semi-finals.
India No. 1 Ghosal tamed Vijay Kumar of Tamil Nadu 3-0 to set up a last four clash with Ravi Dixit, while Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu and Mahesh Mangaonkar will contest the other semis.
Dixit was stretched by Gaurav Nandrajog while dropping the second set and snatching a tight fourth by a whisker, while Harinder Pal halted Rishad Pandole of CCI with a 3-0 win and Mangaonkar rallied from the loss of the opening set to overcome Sandeep Jangra of the Services 3-1 following a close fourth set.
