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Khushwant wins after entertaining duel

NEW DELHI: Khushwant Singh overcame a stiff resistance from Puneet Singh before winning 9-4, 9-5, 9-4 in an entertaining duel in the first round in the men's section in the Northern India Open squash championship here on Friday.

On a day when most of the seeded players had easy outing, Khushwant found Puneet a tough nut to crack. With Puneet matching shot for a shot, Khushwant made inroads with some nice drops to unsettle his challenger.

Meanwhile, Abhishek Jel Singh and Sahaj Gulati scored identical 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 wins beating Deepankar Bose and Tanveer Ahmed Hool respectively.

The results:

Men: Abhishek Jel Singh bt Deepankar Bose 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Waleed Tariq Karra w.o Vikas Kumar; Saurabh Suman Agarwal bt Anoop Kumar 9-7, 9-0, 9-3; Rishi Jalan bt Kartik Gupta 9-3, 9-1, 9-1; Sahaj Gulati bt Tanveer Ahmed Hool 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Varun Prakash bt Jasmit Singh Chandok 9- 1, 9-1, 9-0; Karan Kanodia bt Arvind Singh 9-3, 9-1, 9-0; Nitin Dutta bt Nitin Dayal Srivastav 9-1, 9-1, 9-3; Anil Kumar bt Om Shankar Dubey 9-8, 9-1, 9-1; Khushwant Singh bt Puneet Singh 9-4, 9-5, 9-4; Hira Bahadur Thapa bt Deepak Moolani 9-4, 9-1, 9-5.

Boys:

Under-17: Porus Gupta bt Eshan Sharma 9-5, 9-0, 9-1; Varun Prakash bt Rajandeep Kamboj 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Karan Kanodia bt Rohit Mann 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Kashif Javed bt Vishal Agarwal 10-8, 9-4, 9-2; Aseem Ingale bt Siddharath Pannaik 9-5, 9-4, 9-3; Kartik Gupta bt Dhruv Sharma 9-1, 9-0, 9-5; Rishi Jalan bt Rahul Hira 9-0, 9-0, 9-0.

Under-15: Awais Rahim bt Ankur Pathak 9-0, 9-3, 9-1; Aiman Kler bt Naveen Guntru 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Prince bt Hemant Danga 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Ahmad Amin bt Akash Kutty 9-0, 9-2, 9-0; Gunish Seth bt Utkarsh Goel 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Saatwik Joshi bt Harman Singh 9-0, 9-0, 9-0. — Sports Reporter

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