
Mumbai, October 3: Deepali Anvekar easily outplayed Rachita Vora 9-1, 9-1, 9-1 to reach the final of the girl’s under-19 category of the Indian junior open squash championship, sponsored by Rabo India Finance, being played at the Bombay Gymkhana on Tuesday. Deepali will now meet Priyanka Yadav in the final. Priyanka overcame Rhea Bhandare 9-6, 9-1, 9-7 in the other semi-final.
Results (all semi-finals): Boy’s U-19: Bikram Oberoi bt Yeshwardhan Singh 9-2, 9-1, 9-4.U-11: Jay Bhagat bt Akitha Cunasekara 9-0, 9-2, 9-0; Vikram Malhotra bt Vir Seth 9-0, 9-0, 9-2. U-13: Gautam Kalani bt Nikhil Seth 9-0, 9-6, 9-0; Sandeep Jangra bt Manek Mathur 7-9, 9-4, 9-6, 9-0. U-15: Vikas Jangra bt Mihir Sheth 5-9, 9-3, 9-6, 9-1; Saurav Ghosal bt Karan Singh 6-9, 9-2, 9-4, 9-2. U-17: Yeshwardhan Singh bt Neera Tomar 9-4, 1-9, 9-2, 9-8; Vishalraj kapoor bt Saurav Ghosal 9-5, 9-2, 9-3.
Girls U-11: Shivangi Lolayekar w/o Niharika Saraf, Nikita Emanuel bt Shaheda Madraswala 9-3, 9-0, 9-0. U-13: Alisha Mashruvala bt Shaile Shelke 9-3, 9-1, 9-1; Tehani Guruge bt Shweta Singh 9-1, 9-1, 9-1. U-15: Joshna Chinnappa bt Vaidehi Reddy 10-9, 9-3, 9-2; Supriya Balsekar bt Alisha Mashruvala 9-3, 9-0, 9-4. U-17: Vaidehi Reddy bt Rhea Bhandare 9-3, 9-5, 9-1; Joshna Chinnappa bt Supriya Balsekar 9-7, 9-0, 9-5. U-19: Deepali Anvekar bt Rachita Vora 9-1, 9-1, 9-1; Priyanka Yadav bt Rhea Bhandare 9-6, 9-1, 9-7.
Air-India prevail
AIR-INDIA downed Union Bank 2-0 in a Mumbai District Football Association Super League encounter at the Cooperage on Tuesday. Anthony Fernandes (5th minute) and Ratan Singh (62nd) scored for the winners.
Other results (matches played at the St Xavier’s Ground, Parel): Div I-D: New India Assurance 4 (Conrad Rozario 2, Roshan D’Mellow, Ignatius Coelho) bt GM SC 1 (A Sawant). Div I-A: L & T 2 (Vasu R Bhanji, Oscar D’Souza) bt BPCL 0.
Zubin slams winner
ST STANISLAUS `B’, Bandra sidelined Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (Chembur) 1-0 to reach the final of the under-8 category of the MSSA- Colgate inter-school football tournament at the St Stanislaus High School Ground, Bandra on Tuesday. Zubin Rao scored the match winner. St Xavier’s `A’ (Fort) also made it to the final of the under-10 categories. They beat St Mary’s (SSC) `A’ (Mazgaon) with a solitary goal netted by Porus Irani.
Rishi advances
TOP seed Rishi Behl easily sidelined Irshaad Allana 9-0 to move into the second round of the under 16 boy’s category of the Hero Honda MSLTA Circuit Open junior state ranking tennis tournament at the Cricket Club of India on Tuesday.
Results: Boy’s U-12 (1st round): 1- Arnav Jain bt Anugraha Chandra 9-0; Sagar Laad bt Aditya Shroff 9-5; Utkarsh Kasliwal bt Dev Mehta 9-2; 8- Hryday Chheda bt Gaurav Wallia 9-0; Coelho Marion bt Kartik Rao 9-1; Manan Shah bt Debendra Das 9-5; Akash Wagh bt Aditya Pawal 9-1; 7- Quadros Keegan bt Abhishek Dethan 9-3; Anirudh Kowtha bt Ajitesh Chaugule 9-7; 6- Manikala Janmali bt Athare Mansingh 9-3; Pranav Gandhi bt Raunak Patil 9-5; Nehal Gaokar bt Zaid Furniturewala 9-3.
U-16 (1st round): 1- Rishi Behl bt Irshaad Allana 9-0; Karan Jhaveri bt Chirag Mehta 9-7; Bardia Nikhil bt Rohan Gide 9-8 (10-8); Sanjay Alian bt Rohan Shewakramani 9-4; 5- Rewant Datta bt Tushar Sharma 9-2; Narsimhan Keshavan bt Tarang Bhargava 9-2; Quadros Kenneth bt Coelho Marvin 9-1; Imran Allana bt Coldie Gajwani 9-1; Salil Telang bt Richender Nanda 9-5; 2- Karan Rastogi bt Alon Moses 9-3.
Girls U- 12 (1st Round): 1- Nalini Malayya bt Rupji Manal 9-0; Sampada Kanade bt Kismita Haldar 9-2; 7- Parija Maloo bt Fluchi Lodha 9-0; Sonal Shetye bt Saloni Desai 9-2; Ayushi Sinha bt Khyati Shah 9-2; Hritika Shah bt Camella Vjifdar 9-6; 8- Prachi Nadkarni bt Ananya M. 9-5; Moneeza Siddiqui bt Alisha Sett 9-0; Deepna Vazirani bt Surbhi Verma 9-7; 2- Neena Sharma bt Hargavi Rao 9-0.
Prem nets winner
STRIKER Prem Malhotra’s solitary second half goal turned out to be the match -winner as Air-India Colony put it across leaders Traffords (Big Village) in the NIIT sponsored Kalina Football League conducted by the Our Lady of Egypt Church Sports Committee at the St Mary’s High School ground, Kalina on Monday.
Other results: United Boys (Vidyanagari Marg) 5 (Praveen Goveas 2, Rupesh Sukhtankar 2, Sachin Shivraman) bt Nester’s Compound 0. Rangers (Vidyanagari Marg) 2 (Stephen Menezes, Neil D’Costa) bt Egyptian Boy’s 0. Rovers (Kolovery Village) 0 drew Village Boy’s (Big Village) 0. Sealiners (Big Village) 3 (Stanford Rodrigues, Ryan Jashnari, Sunil Gonsalves) bt East Indians (Big Village) 0.
Jharna leads
JHARNA Badlani of Mumbai scored 946 in five rounds at an average of 189.2 per round to emerge as the front runner in the final round of ColorPlus Women’s National Bowling championship being held at Superdome.
Jharna is followed by Vasanti Ramaiah of Delhi on the second spot who qualified to the last eight with a score fo 785 at an average of 157. Purvi Pandit of Mumbai is in third spot with an aggregate of 777 at an average of 155.4.
Pravin, Khushnaz champs
PRAVIN BAGADE of Dr Antonio D’Silva High School, Dadar and Khushnaz Wadiwalla of Bai AF Petit Girl’s High School, Bandra won the senior boy’s and girl’s crown respectively of MSSA-Colgate annual inter-school carrom tournament held at Dr Antonio Da Silva High School (Academy), Dadar.
Results: Senior boy’s (U-16): 1. Pravin Bagade, 2. Saad Ulde (St Joseph H.S., Umerkhadi), 3. Imran Bata (New Habib H. S., Dongri). Junior boy’s (U-14): 1. Roshan Kajrolkar (Shardashram Vidya Mandir Eng. Med, Dadar), 2. Anirudha Bagri (Don Bosco H.S., Matunga), 3. Ajinkya Chavan (Shardashram Vidya Mandir Mar. Med, Dadar). Senior girl’s (U-16): 1. Khushnaz Wadiwalla, 2. Khushnuma Wadiwalla (Bai AF Petit Girl’s H.S., Bandra), 3. Ketki Hardikar (IES New English School, Bandra). U-14: 1. Rinkle Shan (JB Vachha H.S., Dadar), 2. Jaita Sinha (St Francis H. S., Bhayander), 3. Natasha Wadia (JB Vachha H.S., Dadar).
Sandip enters final
TOP seed Sandip Kirtane easily overcame Joshua Fonseca 6-1, 6-1 to reach the final of the K-Swiss CCI Open Maharashtra State ranking flood-lit tennis tournament at the CCI on Tuesday.
Sandip will take on Nitin Kirtane in the final.


