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Anna varsity advances

CHENNAI: Anna University progressed, but host Madras fell as the quarterfinal phase was gone through on Sunday in the all India inter-University squash tournament held at the ICL academy here.

Anna defeated Punjab 3-0 with Vinayak, Prasanth and Kalimuthu providing far superior to their opponents.

Madras, on the other hand, was ousted by Pune, after a fight, at 3-1.

The results (Team, quarterfinals): Mumbai bt Calcutta 3-0 (Laxman Joshi bt Anuragh Shah 9-11, 11-4, 11-2; Cyrus Vakil bt Kabir Jaggi 11-4, 11-2,; Nitin Chauhan bt Kushal Puddar 11-5, 11-0). Anna bt Punjab 3-0 (Vinayak bt rubik Sood 11-1, 11-4; Prasanth bt Abhilakshay 11-8, 11-9; Kalimuthu bt Abhay Sood 12-10, 11-6). Pune bt Madras 3-1 (Abhimanyu bt Girish Sawlani 7-11, 11-4, 11-6; Nikhil Jain lost to Arnish Oberai 2-11, 9-11; Mann Karan Virsingh bt Vishal Agarwal 11-4, 11-3; Govil Tanmay gt M. Karthikeyan 11-5, 11-4). Delhi bt LNIPE Gwalior 3-0 (Raghav Bhal bt Ashish Pandey 11-4, 11-1; Prateek Chalia bt Dinesh Choudhary 11-5, 11-5; Gunraj Singh bt Pradeep 11-6, 11-6)

Individual (quarterfinals): Laxman Joshi (Mumbai) bt Prateek Chalia (Del) 11-3, 11-3; Abhimanyu Pande (Pune) bt Prasanth (Anna) 11-7, 11-9; Raghav Bahl (Del) bt Vinayak Shetty (Anna) 9-11, 11-7, 11-8; Cyrus Vakil (Mum) bt Girish K. Sawlani (Madras) 12-10, 10-12, 11-1. — Special Correspondent

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