Sandip lone seeded casualty on Day One

Sandip lone seeded casualty on Day One
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Mumbai, November 18: Sandip Jangra from Jindal Club was the lone seeded casualty on the opening day of the 57th CCI Western India Open squash tournament 2000, sponsored by the Cricket Club of India at their Squash Courts on Saturday.

Fourth-seed Sandip was upset by his clubmate unseeded Rajiv Mishra 6-9, 9-6, 10-8, 9-6 in the boy's under-15 category.

Results:

Boys under-11 (Round I): Aditya Jagtap bt Dhruv Toshniwal 9-2, 9-4, 10-9; Zahan Dastur bt Jai Ganatra 9-2, 9-6, 9-0; Shirin Reddy bt Daniya Arora 9-4, 3-9, 9-2, 9-3; Frman Khan bt Suraj Ravindran 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Navin Jangra bt Ashish Duseja 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Riyad Seervai bt Adiya Patil 10-8, 9-2, 9-0; Shaheda Madraswala bt Nirav Bajaj 9-3, 9-5, 9-1; Nitia Emanuel bt Karan Arora 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Akash Mehta bt Vivek Thakkar 9-2, 9-4, 6-9, 9-3.

U-15 (Round II): Siddharth Samantaray bt Dhiraj Nagpal 9-6, 9-1, 9-3; Aditya Shastri bt Vikas Semwal 9-4, 9-7, 9-3; Vrashank Yadav bt Laxman Joshi 9-4, 9-3, 7-9, 9-3; Naishadh Lalwani bt Abhinav Sinha 9-4, 9-1, 3-9, 9-2; Manek Mathur bt Ambuj Sinha 3-9, 9-7, 9-6, 9-6; Rohan Dalal bt Aniket Thakkar 9-1, 9-0, 9-4; Naresh Kumar bt Cyrus Vakil 9-1, 9-5, 9-0; Rajeev Mishra bt Sandip Jangra 6-9, 9-6, 10-8, 9-6; Rushabh Vora bt Anup Sharma 9-0, 9-4, 9-0; Jay Bhagat bt Arjun Shah 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Arun Sharma bt Vikram Malhotra 10-8, 9-0, 9-5; Imran Khan bt Varun Bhagat 9-1, 9-0, 9-1; Vikram Singh bt Joran Diwan 10-9, 7-9, 9-4, 9-1; Gauram Kalani bt Khorakiwala 9-0, 9-1, 9-0.

U-17 (Round II): Jonathan Joshi bt Aditya Shastri 9-2, 9-6, 8-10, 9-3; Digvijaysingh Ahlawat bt Aditya Manjrekar 9-1, 9-1, 9-5; Amjan Khan bt Avinash Bathija 9-1, 9-1, 9-5; Ravi Pandey bt Rohan Dalal 9-7, 9-5, 9-1; Dhruv Dhawan bt Jagbirsingh Jhulka 9-0, 9-1, 9-4; Rajeev Mishra bt Mrinal Todi 9-1, 9-1, 9-2; Vaibhav Gupta bt Vrashank Yadav 9-2, 9-0, 9-2; Cherag Galundia bt Gautam Kalani 4-9, 9-1, 7-9, 9-2, 9-6.

U-19 (Round II): Amjad bt Saumil Gandhi 9-5, 9-7, 9-3; Varun Kataruka bt Dhruv Dhawan 9-7, 3-9, 10-8, 9-1; Junaid Nathani bt Animesh Kejriwal 9-3, 9-3, 9-4.

Telecom Kabaddi
The 16th All-India Telecom kabaddi tournament 2000-01 will be held at the Bhavans' College Gymkhana, Jai Prakash Road, Andheri (W) from November 20 to 24 under the auspices of Regional Sports & Cultural Board, MTNL, Mumbai.

18 men's and four women's teams from 18 States would take part in this competition. Arjuna awardee Maya Meher Akre will inaugurate the event on Nov 20 at 10 a.m.

Guruprit leads
Top seed Guruprit Maras has emerged as the sole leader in the under-14 category of the Rochess 2000 State children chess tournament at the end of the seventh round on Saturday. He has six points.

Following Guruprit at the second spot are Sachin Kamat, Pratik Shrivas and Aditya Vora with 5.5 points each.

Rohit Bhat is leading in the under-12 category with 6.5 points at the end of the seventh round.

Ghatkopar YMCA enters semis
Ghatkopar YMCA entered the semi-finals of the mini boy's category of the NNH Open basketball tournament, being played at the Bachoo Khan municipal ground on Saturday.

Results: Mini boy's (QF): Ghatkopar YMCA:

58 (Manish Singh 13, Ramji Gupta 10) bt Agnel Gym `A': 34 (Harshad 10); Mastan YMCA: 55 (Aarif Lakdawala 16, Makrani Shamsheer 14) bt Indian Gym: 24; NNH `A': 96 (M Shaikh 18, Sayed Sufiyan 13, Shoeb 16) bt Mastan YMCA `A': 16.; Ghatkopar YMCA: 58 (Manish Singh 12, Sandeep Chevale 12) bt Willingdon YMCA: 37 (Siraj Ansari 14).

RCF supreme
Rahtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers (RCF) won the Xth Mumbai city district volleyball championship. They beat MbPT in the final in threes sets 25-23, 25-19, 25-16. Ganesh Kale and Sanjay Naik played attacking game for the winners with passer of Premkumar Shiju, Lonnappan and Dinesh More.

Manoharan, former International player and National Volleyball coach was chief guest for the prize distribution.