India qualify for quarters in junior world squash


Windhoek (Namibia), Aug 17 (IANS): Fourth seeded India, with an unbeaten record in Group D, qualified for the quarter-finals of the WSF Junior World Team Squash Championship for men here Sunday, defeating Colombia 3-0 in their concluding league fixture.

India earlier defeated Kuwait and Guatemala 3-0 each and thus topped their group.

Kush Kumar, a semi-finalist in individual singles who was rested for the match against Guatemala, played in the remaining two matches to spearhead the Indian challenge.

He won convincingly to provide a perfect platform for the others to finish the job. Except for Vijay Kumar Meena, who was stretched in the second match of the tie against Colombia, the rest were easy.

Results: 4-India beat Colombia 3-0 (Kush Kumar bt Andres Felipe Herrera 12-10, 11-1, 11-7; Vijay Meena bt Dairo Sandoval 11-5, 12-10, 9-11, 14-12; Madhav Dhingra bt Santiago Orozco 11-4, 11-9, 11-6).

4-India beat Kuwait 3-0 (Kush Kumar bt Ali Alqallaf 11-6, 11-2, 11-6; Madhav Dhingra bt Khaled Al-Jenaidel 11-9, 11-8, 11-6; Vijay Meena bt Mohammad Ali 11-5, 11-4, 11-2).

4-India beat Guatemala 3-0 (Madhav Dhingra bt Ricardo Toscano 11-3, 11-4, 11-9; Vijay Meena bt Qaini Bonilla 11-4, 11-2, 11-1; Velavan Senthilkumar bt Alejandro Enriquez 11-7, 11-6, 11-2).

 

  

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