MUMBAI, November 11: Siddharth SUCHDE of Cricket Club of India (CCI) marched into the quarter-finals of the under-16 event of the 54th Western India Open Squash Tournament at CCI courts here today.

Suchde trounced Indore's Ankur Gupta 9-7 9-3 9-5 to advance. Besides, he also reached the pre-quarters of the under-14 category when he blanked Anurag Gill 9-6 9-1 9-1.

Rhea Bhandare took just 11 minutes make an entry in the U-14 PQF with a 9-1 9-2 9-0 win over Rushabh Vora.

Top seed inthe u-19 section, Ritwik Bhattacharya along with the second and fourth seeded Juneja twins, Rohan and Gaurav, sailed faced no difficulty on way to the quarters.

RESULTS

Boys U-19 (2nd round): Ritwik Bhattacharya bt Mahesh Verma 9-5 9-5 9-5; Abhijit Kukreja bt Shlok Melwani 9-0 9-1 9-0; Parth Doshi bt Deepak Khetani 9-1 9-10 9-5 9-1; Gaurav Juneja bt Sufyan Anis 9-1 10-8 9-2; Amitpal Kohli bt Abhimanyu Jain 9-0 9-2 9-0; Saket Wali bt Siddharth Suchde 9-5 9-1 4-9 9-0. U-16 (2nd round): AKukreja bt Arvind Singh 9-1 9-1 9-6; Anil Verma bt Anurag Gill 9-2 9-6 9-1; Auloke Mathur bt Yashwardhan Singh 9-4 9-7 9-5; Sahil Vora bt S Kheruka 9-0 9-0 9-7; Mahesh Verma bt Karanpal Sethi 10-9 9-4 9-0; A Jain bt Sanjay Pawar 9-1 9-1 9-1. U-14 (2nd round): V Jangra bt Varun Bhagat 9-4 9-6 9-4; Rhea Bhandare bt Rushabh Vora 9-1 9-2 9-0; Madhuwant S bt Aman Inder Singh 9-0 9-1 9-4; Mihir Sheth bt Ritesh Sharma 9-0 9-0 9-0; Siddharth Samantaray bt Saurabh Dwivedi 9-0 9-0 9-2; Jonathan Joshi bt Jay Bhagat 9-1 9-1 9-1.

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