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Anup bows out

MUMBAI: Jindal Academy's Anup Sharma bowed out of the Airtel-Khar Gymkhana all-India inter-schools/colleges individual squash boys' under-19 second round, beaten by unseeded Joran Diwan of HR College (Mumbai) 7-11, 11-8, 11-5, 5-11, 11-9 on Thursday.

The results: Boys: under-19 (2nd round): Joran Diwan (HR College) bt Anup Sharma (Jindal Academy) 7-11, 11-8, 11-5, 5-11, 11-9; Laxman Joshi (Jindal) bt Naveen Jangra (Jindal) 12-10, 11-7, 11-7; Sarvesh Chauhan (Jindal) bt Angad Marwah 11-9, 11-6, 11-6; Naishad Lalwani (Catherdal) bt Tanmay Govil 11-7, 11-2, 11-5; Cyrus Vakil (HR) bt Kunwarpal Singh 11-8, 11-9, 11-5; Sadiq Madraswala bt Nitin Chauhan (Jindal) 8-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-4.

Under-17 (2nd round): Laxman Joshi (Jindal) bt Karan Singh 11-3, 11-6; Jay Bhagat bt Rishikesh Chakraborty 11-1, 11-5; Tanmay Govil bt Oza Suprabh Madhav 11-5, 11-1; Nitin Chauhan (Jindal) bt Kundan Dhami 11-1, 11-6; Deerav Moolani (Pune) bt Udaychand Rai (Jindal) 12-10, 11-4; Pranay Merchant bt Shankar Menon 11-4, 11-7; Anup Sharma (Jindal) bt Waqur Pathan 11-3, 11-4; Naveen Jangra bt Ameya Malkan 11-8, 11-0; Cyrus Vakil (HR) bt Jaysinh Thori (Jindal) 11-2, 11-6.

Under-13 (2nd round): Caran Arora bt Shashi Pandey 11-2, 11-4; Arjun Kochar bt Rahul Jayeshshah 11-1, 11-7; Aditya Kochar bt Norden Sherpa 11-6, 11-2; Akash Borvankar bt Anirudh Murthy 11-0, 11-1;Ishan Advani bt Karan Dabrai 11-4, 11-4; Ness Billimoria bt Neville Tata 11-8, 11-5.

Under-11 (2nd round): Shikhar Soni bt Akshay Khubchandani 11-3, 11-4; Aditya Khatri bt Abhishek Bhuta 9-11, 11-5, 11-10; Armaan Kothari bt Ankush Nair 11-10, 11-9; Kunj Ravani bt Santosh Pahwa 11-5, 11 3; Karan Kochhar bt Varun Nimlani 11-3, 11-9; Rahil Fazebhoy bt Kris K. 11-2, 11-3; Raghav Mehrotra bt N. Jagdish 11-2, 11-1; Arjun Kochhar bt Mishal N. 11-2, 11-0; Nikhil Mishra bt Ranbir Luniya 11-3, 11-2; Yohan Pandole bt Akshay Kejriwal 11-3, 11-3; Shailesh Sharma bt Anirudh Agarwal 11-9, 13-11; Devchand Rai bt Aryaman Naik 11-1, 11-7.

IHF Clarifies

The Indian Hockey Federation on Thursday categorically stated that Rajinder Singh (Jr.) would continue in his post as the coach of the National team till the World Cup next year.

Rubbishing speculation in a section of the press that Rajinder was on his way out, IHF President K.P.S. Gill said in New Delhi there was no move at all to remove the coach.

``It (the speculation) is nonsense. Rajinder Singh will continue till World Cup 2006,'' he told PTI.

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