Sankalp Anand of Delhi made short work of his higher-ranked opponent Armaan Chowfin of Goa in straight games to reach the under-15 final of the ISA junior open squash tournament here on Friday.
In the under-17 section, lower-ranked Veer Chotrani, making his foray into the higher-age category, continued to impress with his touch game while top seed Tushar Shahani had a task on hand before putting it across his Maharashtra mate Chaitanya Shah, who had a fine run in this event.
The results (semifinals): Boys: U-11: Rohan Arya Gondi (TS) bt Vivaan Shah (Mah) 11-3, 11-6, 10-12, 12-10; Shaurya Bawa (Del) bt Sharan Punjabi (Mah) 9-11, 16-14, 11-7, 5-11, 11-9.
U-13: Athrva Yadav (Del) bt Jay Vaknalli (Mah) 11-13, 11-2, 11-7, 11-8; Aaryaman Jaising (Mah) bt Raunak Singh (Mah) 11-4, 11-8, 11-7.
U-15: Gautam Nagpal (Del) bt R. Kishore Arvind (TN) 11-1, 11-6, 11-2; Sankalp Anand (Del) bt Armaan Chowfin (Goa) 12-10, 11-5, 11-4.
U-17: Tushar Shahani (Mah) bt Chaitanya Shah (Mah) 9-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-4; Veer Chotrani (Mah) bt Utkarsh Baheti (Raj) 11-8, 11-7, 8-11, 11-8.
U-19: Velavan Senthilkumar bt Pranay Jain 11-4, 11-3, 11-5; Adhitya Raghavan bt Ranjit Singh 11-5, 11-6, 11-4.
Girls: U-11: Gitanjali Vasudevan (TN) bt Advita Sharma (Mah) 11-2, 11-2, 11-1; Kaavya Bansal (Mah) bt V. Harini (TN) 11-9, 11-9, 11-4.
U-13: Diksha Aurobindo (TN) bt Yuvna Gupta (Mah) 11-3, 11-4, 11-4; Abhisheka Shannon (TN) bt Uditi Mishra (Raj) 11-6, 11-7, 11-9.
U-15: S. Samita (TN) bt Sanya Vats (Del) 11-5, 11-5, 11-3; Megha Bhatia (Del) bt Darshana Vasudevan (TN) 11-9, 11-8, 11-9.
U-17: Ashita Pranaya Bhengra (TN) bt Rathika Suthanthira Seelan (TN) 11-8, 11-5, 13-11; Sunayna Kuruvilla (TN) bt Amita Gondi (TS) 7-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-3, 11-2.
