Melwani knocks out seeded Junaid

NOVEMBER 2: H Melwani scored a major upset by defeating second seed Junaid Nathani in the qualifying round of Sub-Juniors under-16 of Hongk...

By: Express News Service
November 3, 1997 12:00 AM IST

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NOVEMBER 2: H Melwani scored a major upset by defeating second seed Junaid Nathani in the qualifying round of Sub-Juniors under-16 of Hongkong Maharashtra State at Bombay Gymkhana Squash Courts.

RESULTS

Junior Boys: Vijay Jangra bt Rajbeer Verma 9-5, 9-1, 9-5; Deepak Yadav bt Nakul Sarin 9-1, 9-4, 9-3; Moin Motiwala bt Anil Verma 9-3, 9-4, 9-0; Abhimanyu Jain bt Satyajit Seshadri 9-3, 9-0, 9-0; D Khetani bt Shawn Lawyer 9-3, 9-1, 9-1; Junaid Nathani bt Ritchie Mehta 9-1, 9-1, 9-3; Auloke Mathur bt Nikhil Pendhnekar 9-0, 9-0, 9-7; Mahesh Verma bt Samir Wali 9-6, 9-0, 9-4

Open qualifying round: Harsha Raghvan bt Moin Motiwala 9-0, 9-2, 9-0; Amitpal Kohli bt Vivek Khanna 5-9, 9-0, 9-6, 6-9, 9-5; J Surti bt Anjali Ponni 9-3, 9-0, 9-0; Premal Jhaveri bt Manoj Aggrawal 9-2, 9-3, 9-5; Siddharth Thacker bt Sanjay Goyal 9-6, 9-1, 9-1; Mahesh Verma bt Indrpal Singh 9-10, 9-5, 9-3, 9-0; Avinash Bhawnani bt Leon Emmanuel 9-2, 9-4, 7-9, 9-3; Abhimanyu Jain bt D khetani 5-9, 9-5, 9-7,9-6.