By IANS,
Indore: ISA trainees R.A. Charaiyaselvan and Roshan Kumarakannan, participating in the boys under 11 and 13 categories respectively at the National Squash Championships here, upset higher ranked opponents to reach the finals Saturday.
Charaiyaselvan overcame Dev Vazarani while Roshan defeated Yohan Pandole in a nail biting five games. Roshan was trailing 3-8 and 7-10, but saved three match balls to win the decider 12-10.
Lakshya Ragvendra also upset second seeded Pankhuri Malhotra in the girls under-15 category clawing back from a two-game deficit and will play top seed Urvashi Singh from Maharashtra in the final.
In the under-19 categories, Dipika Pallikal will play against Anwesha Reddy and in the boys section, Aditya Jagtap will take on Ramit Tandon who needed five games to defeat Ravi Dixit.
Results (all semi-finals):
B-11: Solomon Ravi (TN) beat Aryaman Adik (MAH) 11-5 11-7 11-2; R.A. Charaiyaselvan (TN) beat Dev Vazirani (MAH) 11-8 16-14 7-11 11-7.
B-13: Sandeep Ramachandran (TN) beat Kunj Rawani (MAH) 11-9 11-8 11-1; Roshan Kumarakannan (TN) beat Yohan Pondole (MAH) 9-11 11-9 8-11 11-4 12-10.
B-15: Kush Kumar (TN) beat Manik Dutta (MP) 11-6 11-5 11-8; Deepak Mishra (TN) beat Rishi Tandon (TN) 11-4 11-6 9-11 11-8.
B-17: Mahesh Mangoankar (MAH) beat Vrishab Kotian (TN) 11-4 11-8 11-7; Abhishek Pradhan (TN) beat Vivek Dinodia (WB) 11-4 11-5 11-5.
B-19: Aditya Jagtap (MAH) beat Karan Malik (TN) 11-7 11-8 11-7; Ramit Tandon (TN) beat Ravi Dixit (TN) 11-7 11-4 9-11 5-11 11-8.
G-11: Nikita Joshi (MAH) beat Neharika Balamurukan (TN) 14-12 3-11 11-9 3-11 11-8; Daksha Pathak (MAH) beat Shamika Reddy (TN) 7-11 9-11 11-9 11-5 12-10.
G-13: Adya Advani (DEL) beat Jui Kalgutkar (MAH) 11-6 4-11 11-4 11-4; Harshit Kaur (DEL) beat Aishwarya Nambiar (MAH) 11-7 11-9 11-7.
G-15: Urvashi Joshi (MAH) beat Anandita Gupta (MP) 12-10 11-3 11-2; Lakshya Ragvendra (TN) beat Pankhuri Malhotra (DEL) 11-13 9-11 11-2 11-7 11-3.
G-17: Anaka Alankamony (TN) beat Ankita Sharma (MAH) 11-0 11-4 11-3; Saumya Karki (MAH) beat Aprajitha Balamurukan (TN) 11-6 7-11 11-3 8-11 11-1.
G-19: Dipika Pallikal (TN) beat Tanvi Jain (MP) 11-1 11-3 11-2; V. Anwesha Reddy (TN) beat Dheeya Somaiya (MP) 11-1 11-2 11-2.