Indian Jrs shine in Asian squash

Indian juniors produced impressive performances in the Asian junior individual squash championship in Jordan with as many as 10 players entering the semifinals in various categories.

In the boys’ section, Tushar Shahani (U-17), Neel Joshi (U-15), Yuvraj Wadhwani and Parth Ambani (both U-13) have reached the last four. Among the girls, Sunayna Kuruvilla and Ashita Pranaya Bhengra (both U-19) besides Navmi Sharma (U-17), Yoshna Singh, Ananya Dabke (both U-15) and Yuvna Gupta (U-13) made it to the semifinals, said a SRFI press release. However, the big disappointment for India came with the exit of second seed Abhay Singh in the boys under-19 section in the quarterfinal. —