Tarun wallops Gaurav, Pradeep survives scare

NEW DELHI, JANUARY 27: Tarun Gill of the Siri Fort sports complex made short work of last year’s runners-up Gaurav Yadav whom he thrashed 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 in the under-19 first round match of the fifth DDA Open Squash Tournament which began at the DDA Siri Fort sports complex on Tuesday. In men’s action, Parikshit Aggarwal was troubled by a late surge from Chiranjeev Singh but made it in straight games. Tanuj Kathuria was stretched to four games by Navraj Singh, while Anjali Rajkumar took Pradeep Kumar to five games before bowing out.

The results: Men’s Open (first round): Parikshit Aggarwal bt Chiranjeev Singh 9-2, 9-4, 9-7; Tanu Shankar bt Gaurav Suri 9-3, 9-0, 9-5; Rajnish Manchanda bt S.Ramsinghaney 9-1, 9-0, 9-1; Auleen Ghosh bt Sandeep Singh 9-1, 9-0, 9-0; Ravneet Ahuja bt Kapil Nayar 9-1, 9-3, 9-1; Karan Singh bt Kunal Singh 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Shammi Khuran bt Sachin Bharti 9-6. 9-2, 9-1; Jasbeer Singh bt Rahul Bharadwaj 9-6, 9-5, 9-1; Raman Pahwa bt Renu Daga 9-4, 9-1, 9-2; Pragyat Singh bt Raghav Gupta 9-0, 9-1, 9-1; Anurag Mathur bt Harish Tejwani 9-6, 9-2, 9-4; Balvinder Singh bt Abhinandan Khanna 9-3, 5-9, 9-4, 9-3; Karan Singh bt Kulwant Singh 9-0, 9-0, 9-7; Ranjit Singh bt Gurpal Khurana 9-5, 9-6, 9-0; Pradeep Kumar bt Anjali P. Rajkumar 9-1, 9-2, 7-9, 2-9, 9-4; Tanuj Kathuria bt Navraj Singh 9-4, 9-1, 7-9, 9-7; Rohit Dhawan bt Shivraj Palta 9-1, 4-9, 9-6, 9-2.

Under-19 (first round): Karan Singh bt Kunal Suri 9-6, 9-0, 9-3; Karan Khanna bt Ramandeep 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Rahul Pandit bt Chirag Agarwal 9-0, 9-2, 9-2; Amjad Khan bt Vijay Singh 9-1, 9-1, 9-1; Gaurav Tomar bt Imran Khan 9-3, 9-3, 9-0; Garawat Guha bt Kulwant Singh 9-2, 9-1, 9-1; Miraj Tomar bt Raghav Sharma 9-3, 9-5, 9-2; Rohit Pandit bt Vasu Modi 9-1, 9-1, 9-1; Tarun Gill bt Gaurav Yadav 9-0, 9-0, 9-0; Anand Jain bt Gautam Gauba 9-3, 9-1, 9-1; Vikas Kumar bt Vineet Jain 9-7, 9-0, 9-2.