By IANS,
Chennai: Only two Indians, top seed Joshna Chinappa and fifth-seeded birthday boy Siddharth Suchde survived first round matches in the WISPA and PSA Challenger squash tournaments here Wedneday.
The biggest upset of the day was the defeat of fourth seed Dipika Pallikal who blew a 2-0 lead and lost to qualifier Siyoli Waters of South Africa 3-2 in the $8,000 WISPA event that also saw the exit of Anwesha Reddy, Aprajitha Balamurugan and Anaka Alankamony besides “lucky loser” Surbhi Mishra who went down to Joshna.
In the $10,000 men’s competition, Suchde remained the lone Indian in the fray after Ravi Dixit, Abhishek Pradhan, Gaurav Nandrajog, Naresh Kumar and A. Parthiban stumbled at the first hurdle.
The results:
PSA (1st round): 1-Stephen Coppinger (South Africa) bt Q-Gaurav Nandrajog (India) 11-2, 6-11, 11-9, 4-11, 11-5 (52 mins); 7-Kristian Frost Olesen (Netherlands) bt Naresh Kumar 11-5, 11-2, 11-8 (31mins); 3-Dylan Bennett (Netherlands) bt Amr Khaled Khalifa (Egypt) 11-6, 11-7, 11-8 (31 mins); 6-Karim Samy (Egypt) bt Ravi Dixit (India) 13-11, 13-11, 11-4 (40 mins); 8-Anson Kwong (Hong Kong) bt Q-A Parthiban (India) 11-9, 11-5, 11-7 (28 mins); 4-Abdullah Al Mezayen (Kuwait) bt Aqeel Rehman (Austria) 11-6, 11-4, 11-4 (27 mins); 5-Siddharth Suchde (India) bt Leo Au (Hong Kong) 11-4, 11-3, 11-8 (51 mins); 2-Robbie Temple (England) bt Q-Abhishek Pradhan (India) 11-6, 11-3, 11-5 (20mins).
WISPA (1st round): 1-Joshna Chinappa (India) bt LL-Surbhi Misra (India) 11-4, 11-2, 11-7 (18 mins); 6-Lauren Selby (England) bt Anaka Alankamony (India) 13-11, 11-7, 12-10 (29 mins); 3-Lauren Siddal (England) bt Aparajitha Balamurukan (India) 11-5, 11-7, 11-2 (16 mins); Q-Faustine Gilles (France) bt 5-Elise Ng (Hong Kong) bt 10-12, 11-9, 11-2, 8-11,11-9 (37 mins); Laura Pomportes (France) bt Sara El Naomany (Egypt) 10-12, 11-5, 11-5, 14-12 (38 mins); Q-Siyoli Waters (South Africa) bt 4-Dipika Pallikal (India) 10-12, 8-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-8 (40 mins);.8-Colin Aumard (France) bt Anwesha Reddy (India) 11-9, 11-7, 11-0 (24 mins); 2-Joey Chan (Hong Kong) bt Milou Van Der Jeijden (Netherlands) 11-8, 11-2, 11-8 (17 mins).