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Saumya Karki pulls off a surprise

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MUMBAI: Jindal Squash Academy's unseeded Saumya Karki stunned third seed Dheeya Somaya (Indore) 9-3, 9-3, 9-1 in the girls' under-19 quarterfinals of the SKF India Ltd. sponsored Little Masters all-India junior squash tournament 2006 on Thursday. Saumya also stormed into girls' under-15 semifinals, beating Shria Khatri 9-2, 9-0, 9-0.

The results: (all second round):

Boys U-17: Abhinav Sinha bt Rohan Vora 9-7, 9-2, 9-1; Aditya Gupta bt Anup Sharma 9-7, 2-9, 0-9, 9-7, 9-5; Akhilesh Nayak bt Jay Dalal 7-9, 9-6, 9-5, 9-2; Vikram Malhotra bt Zahan Dastur 9-0, 9-1, 9-7; Karan Malik bt Amay Merchant 9-0, 9-1, 9-2.

U-15: Jagannath Kuyte bt Karan Kandelwal 9-3, 9-2, 10-9; Gaurav Arora bt Neville Tata 9-0, 9-2, 9-0; Ajan Jayant bt Behram Modi 9-6, 9-1, 9-1; Mahesh Mangaonkar bt Aakash Kutty 9-5, 9-0, 9-2; Pranay Merchant bt Rahil Shah 9-0, 9-0, 9-4; Rahil Fazilbhoy bt Yash Bhansali 9-5, 9-0, 9-6; Dhnanjay Singh bt Kushal Nathani 9-2, 9-0, 9-0; Piyush Lalchandani bt Parth Giha 9-0, 9-2, 9-0; Rohan Vora bt Sashi Pandey 9-7, 9-3, 9-3; Samir Mistry bt Vrishab Kotian 9-1, 9-2, 9-0.

U-13: Bharat Verma bt Aradhya Kasliwal 1-9, 9-5, 9-2, 10-8; Hemant Manjrekar bt Madhav Gupta 9-3, 9-1, 9-4; Yash Bhansali bt Naval Gamadia 9-0, 9-1, 9-2; Vrishabh Kotian bt Rohan Malhotra 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Kunj Rawani bt Pranay Motta 9-3, 9-2, 9-2; Dhananjay Singh bt Aditya Khatri 9-5, 9-1, 9-6; Mahesh Mangaonkar bt Karl Wadia 9-2, 9-0, 9-0; Sashi Pandey bt Devchand Rai 9-0, 9-0, 9-6; Yohan Pandole bt Prashant Nagpal 9-2, 9-2, 9-7.

U-11 (quarterfinals): Devchand Rai bt Akshay Kesriwal 9-6, 9-7, 9-6; Raghav Mehrotra bt Aradhya Kasliwal 9-0, 9-0, 9-1; Ravindra Dhoria bt Akshay Arora 10-8, 9-4, 9-5; Yaduveer Singh bt Aditya Khatri 3-9, 10-8, 9-0, 9-6; Kunj Rawani bt Karan Kochhar 9-1, 9-3, 9-4; Rajat Agarwal bt Chaitanya Desai 9-2, 9-5, 9-4; Arjun Kochhar bt Madhav Gupta 9-0, 9-0, 9-2.

Girls (all quarterfinals): U-19: Shivangi Paranjpe bt Nikita Mann 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Saumya Karki bt Dheeya Somaya 9-3, 9-3, 9-1; Swati Muchhal bt Sheheda Madraswala 9-5, 9-4, 7-9, 10-8; Harita Omprakash bt Sharia Khatri 9-1, 9-0, 9-1.

U-15: Saumya Karki bt Shria Khatri 9-2, 9-0, 9-0.

Boys/ girls U-9 (quarterfinals): Sandeep Paswan bt Roshan Sharma 9-0, 9-1, 9-4; Yohan Surti bt Ben Kennedy 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Trilok Sadarangani bt Ishaan Mehra 9-2, 9-6, 5-9, 10-9; Yohan Surti bt Anirudh Amersey 9-2, 9-6, 9-0.

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