SportPosted at: Aug 24 2021 4:43PM Upsets galore at SRFI Indian Tour PSA event
Chennai, Aug 24 (UNI) It was a day of upsets at the HCL SRFI
Indian Tour, a PSA Challenger Domestic, event at the Indian
squash Academy here on Tuesday.
Chennai's Giant-killer Akshaya Sri, who toppled a few seeds
yesterday, out-ran 3rd seeded Sachika Balvani to confirm her
semi-final berth with a straight-game victory.
Akshaya led from the beginning and controlled the match, which
lasted only 19 minutes.
Akshaya will play top-seeded Sunanya Kuruvilla, who defeated
Urwashi Joshi in 4 games.
The other semi-final will be contested between 2nd seeded
Tanvi Khanna and 4th seeded Aparajitha Balamurukan, who
defeated Janet Vidhi and Abhisheka Shanon respectively in
straight games.
Sixth seeded Abhishek Pradan comfortably defeated top seed
Abhay Singh in straight games in the men's section. Abhay
seemed to be completely off-colour going down without a
fight.
Abhishek Pradhan now plays 7th seeded Rahul Baitha, who got
the better of 3rd seeded Aadit Zaveri.
In the other half of the draw, 4th seeded Abhishek Agarwal
comfortably defeated Kanhav Nanavati. Agarwal will take on
fifth seeded Velavan Senthilkumar, who only had to play 13
points before Harinder Pal quit due to a groin strain.
Results:
Quarterfinals :
Women:
[1] Sunayna Kuruvilla (IND) bt [5] Urwashi Joshi (IND) 17-15, 11-6, 11-13, 11-5
Akshaya Sri (IND) bt [3] Sachika Balvani (IND) 11-9, 11-8, 11-2
[4] Aparajitha Balamurukan (IND) bt [8] Abhisheka Shannon (IND) 13-11, 11-7, 11-7
[2] Tanvi Khanna (IND) bt [7] Janet Vidhi (IND) 11-4, 11-4, 11-6
Men's
[5] Velavan Senthilkumar (IND) bt [2] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) 9-4 retd
[4] Abhishek Agarwal (IND) bt Kanhav Nanavati (IND) 11-7, 11-5, 11-5
[7] Rahul Baitha (IND) bt [3] Aadit Zaveri (IND) 11-7, 11-6, 11-1
[6] Abhishek Pradhan (IND) bt [1] Abhay Singh (IND) 11-8, 11-6, 11-6
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