Pradhan, Borwankar storm into U-15 semis

Mumbai, May 15 (UNI) Arch rivals Abhishek Pradhan and Aakash Borwankar stormed into the boys under-15 semi-finals, in the Otters Million Open Squash Tournament 2007 that got under way at the Otters Club, Bandra today.

Top seed Pradhan lived up to his reputation when he overcame No 8 Deepak Kumar 9-2, 9-6, 9-3 in the quarter-finals, while No 3 Borwankar demolished unseeded Rahil Fazalbhoy 9-3, 9-1, 9-1.

Joining them in the last four were second seed Karan Thariyamal and No 5 Rohan Vora who accounted for Caran Arora in straight games.

Boys' under-17 top seed Karm Kumar fashioned an easy win to lead the other ranked players into the quarter-finals, with No 2 Rishi Jalan, third seed Abhinav Sinha and No 4 Akhilesh Nayak winning in straight games.

RESULTS: Boys U-19 [2nd Rd]: Farman Khan bt Sami Jonson 7-9, 0-9, 9-3, 9-3, 9-5; Akhilesh Nayak bt Kunwarpal Singh 7-9, 9-5, 9-4, 9-2; Karam Kumar bt Javed Shah Mohd 9-2, 9-1, 9-0; Rishi Jalan bt Jay Dalal 9-4, 10-8, 9-6; Sujat Baruva bt Virendra Pawar 9-2, 9-1, 9-1; Pranay Merchant bt Sumer Bahl 5-9, 9-4, 9-7, 9-3; Abinav Sinha bt Hitesh Bhagra 9-4, 9-2, 9-0.

Boys U-17 [PQF]: Anuj Chavan bt Deerav Moolani 9-3, 9-2, 1-9, 9-5; Karan Thariyamal bt Aakash Borwankar 9-3, 9-4, 9-7; Karm Kumar bt Shashi Pandey 9-0, 9-5, 9-0; Abhinav Sinha bt Ness Billimoria 9-5, 9-5, 9-0; Akhilesh Nayak bt Rohan Zaveri 9-4, 9-1, 9-0; Abhishek Pradhan bt Rohan Vora 9-1, 9-3, 9-4; Rishi Jalan bt Javed Shah Mohd.

9-1, 9-5, 9-5.

Boys U-15 [QF]:Abhishek Pradhan bt Deepak Kumar 9-2, 9-6, 9-3; Aakash Borwankar bt Rahil Fazalbhoy 9-3, 9-1, 9-1; Karan Thariyamal bt Vrishab Kotian 9-1, 9-5, 9-4; Rohan Vora bt Caran Arora 9-2, 9-7, 9-4.

Boys U-13 [3rd Rd]: Kush Kumar bt Raj Saran 9-2, 9-4, 9-0; Deepak Kumar bt Nishikant Khapre 9-3, 9-3, 9-0; Akhilesh Yadav bt Aditya Khatri 9-0, 9-3, 9-4; Sajid Hussain bt Viraj Nadkarni 9-1, 9-4, 9-2; Rishi Tandon bt Anshul Goyal 9-0, 9-3, 9-2; Tushar Kothari bt Sandeep Paswan 9-1, 9-0, 9-2; Rahil Fazalbhoy bt Roshan Khanna 9-2, 9-5, 9-1; Kunj Rawani bt Vardhan Ladiwala 9-5, 5-9, 9-3, 9-1.

Professionals [PQF]: Vijay Waghela bt Vijay Jangra 9-2, 4-9, 9-7, 1-9, 9-0; Yogesh Sonawane bt Dasharth Tambe 9-2, 7-9, 9-3, 9-6; 4-Sachin Jhadav bt Vijay H. Sonawane 9-2, 9-2, 9-3; 3-Rohit More bt Ashish Keskar 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Temo Gomez bt Sunil Kumar 9-3, 9-0, 9-5; 1-Amjad Khan bt S. Kalimuttu 9-1, 9-0, 9-2; 2-Sanjay Pawar bt Sanjay Waghmare 5-9, 9-3, 9-1, 9-3.

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