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Sachika stuns Habiba

NEW DELHI: Sachika Ingale shocked third seeded Habiba Khan of Pakistan 9-0, 9-1, 9-4 to make it to the semifinals in the women’s section in the all-India Hamdard-Delton invitational squash championship here on Sunday. She will next meet second seeded Zoya Khalid of Pakistan. In the men’s section, top seeded Sandeep Jhangra beat up and coming junior Gunraj Singh 9-5, 9-6, 9-0, and will meet Amjad Khan in the semifinals on Monday.

The results (quarterfinals):

Men: Amjad Khan bt Sukail Kapoor 9-2, 9-5, 4-9, 9-4, Sandeep Jhangra bt Gunraj Singh 9-5, 9-6, 9-0, A. Parthiban bt Harshit Jain 9-2, 9-2, 3-9, 4-9, 9-1, Laxman Joshi bt Qadeer Ahmed (Pak) 9-1, 9-2, 9-1.

Women: Saumya Karki bt Shria Khatri 9-3, 9-5, 9-2, Muqaddas Ashraf (Pak) bt Anju Sharma 9-2, 9-2, 9-2, Sachika Ingale bt Habiba Khan (Pak) 9-0, 9-1, 9-4, Zoya Khalid (Pak) bt Riffat Khan (Pak) 9-0, 9-4, 9-5.

Boys: Under-19: Gunraj Singh bt Mohammed Sheeban (Pak) 9-0, 9-2, 9-0, Mohammed Naveed Alam (Pak) bt Aqib Hameed (Pak) 9-1, 9-0, 9-0.

Under-17: Karm Kumar bt Aditya Advani 9-1, 9-5, 9-0, Asif Khan (Pak) Shakir Hussain (Pak) 9-0, 9-5, 9-2, Waqas Mehboob bt Javed Mohammed 9-0, 9-0, 9-2, Ali Ayub bt Mujahid Hussain 9-1, 9-5, 7-9, 9-5.

Under-15: Haroon Rashid (Pak) bt Dinodia 9-2, 96, 9-0, Kush Kumar bt Aditya Advani 9-1, 9-1, 9-2, Nemat Ullah (Pak) bt Karan Tharyamal 9-5, 9-1, 9-4, Deepak Mishra bt Wahab Khan (Pak) 9-6, 9-5, 9-3.

Under-13: Bilal Zakir (Pak) bt Akhilesh Yadav 9-0, 9-1, 9-0, Kuash Kumar bt Divij Singh 9-0, 9-0, 9-6, Mohammed Farhan bt Abhishek Kumar 9-3, 9-0, 9-0, S. A. M. S. Bukhari (Pak) bt Aditya Khatri 9-2, 9-4, 9-0.

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