National Squash Championship: Utkarsh and Sanya crowned junior champions

CHENNAI: Jaipur boy

Utkarsh Baheti

gave the home crowd a reason to cheer as he won over

Rahul Baitha

in a nerve wracking final to lift the U-19 boys title in the

National sub-junior and junior squash championship

which concluded in Jaipur on Saturday.


The ¾ seed Utkarsh downed the second seed Rahul in a match that not only went the full distance but to extra points as well as fortunes fluctuated tantalsingly right through till the last point. Both have been mates in the Indian team but this was a rivarly that lit up the final day even if it extended the evening session. Earlier Delhi's Sanya Vats, the ¾ seed had won the girls U-19 title on a commanding note beating the emerging talent Jannia Sing of Chandigarh in straight games.

For Tamil Nadu there was some cheer with Diksha Aurobindo, the Salem girl, winning the U-15 title. A top player earlier in the U-13 category, Diksha, the second seed had made steady progress in the higher category and confirmed her rise with this win over the top seed Yuvna Gupta of Maharashtra over five games.

The results: all finalBoys:

U-19: Utkarsh Baheti (Rj) (¾) bt Rahul Baitha (Mah) (2) 11-8, 11-6, 10-12, 5-11, 16-14

U-17: Neel Joshi (Mah) (1) bt Yash Fadte (Goa) (¾) 11-5, 11-5, 11-7

U-15: Shreyas Mehta (Mah) (1) bt Paarth Ambani (Mah) (¾) 11-5, 11-9, 11-9

U-13: Yuvraj Wadhwni (Mah) (1) bt Rohan Arya Gondi (Telng) (¾) 11-7, 9-11, 11-5, 13-11

U-11: Ritwik Singh (Rj) (¾) bt Anshuman Jaisingh (Mah) (2) 11-7, 11-8, 11-9


Girls
U-19: Sanya Vats (Del) (¾) bt Jannia Singh (CH) (¾) 11-6, 11-6, 11-7

U-17: Yoshna Singh (Mah) (2) bt Ananya Dabke (Mah) (1) 11-7, 12-14, 11-5, 9-11,12-10

U-15: Diksha Aurobindo (TN) (2) bt Yuvna Gupta (Mah) (1) 11-9, 9-11, 9-11, 11-9, 11-1

U-13: Kaavya Bansal (Mah) (1) bt Tiana Parasrampuria (Mah) (2) 11-2, 11-7, 11-6

U-11: Anahat Singh(Del) (1) bt Ipsa Mishra (Mah) (¾) 11-4, 11-2, 11-6