Arihant, Aryaa emerge champions at NMDC Telangana Open Squash Championship

K S Arihant of Tamil Nadu and Aryaa Dwivedi of Telangana won the men's and women's titles, respectively, at the NMDC Telangana Open Squash Championship in Hyderabad. The event also concluded with finals across junior and masters categories

Hyderabad: K S Arihant (Tamil Nadu) and Aryaa Dwivedi (Telangana) emerged champions in the men’s and women’s categories, respectively, at the NMDC Telangana Open Squash Championship at Secunderabad Club here on Wednesday.

Top seed Arihant defeated fellow Tamil Nadu player PR Sandhesh 11-7, 9-11, 11-3, 8-11, 11-5 in a final that swung back and forth before K S closed it out in the decider.

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In the women’s final, top seed Aryaa Dwivedi outclassed B S Sreya (Kerala) in straight games, 11-9, 11-3, 11-7.

The results:

All finals:

Boys:

Under-11: Agastya Uppal [1] (DL) bt Vedant Shinde (MH) 13-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-4.

Under-13: Nirvaan Uppal [1] (DL) bt Aryan SK (KA) 11-9, 7-11, 5-11, 11-9, 11-7.

Under-15: Fareed Andrabi [1] (RJ) bt Armaan Choudhary (MH) 11-9, 11-5, 11-9.

Under-17: Shresht Iyer (KA) bt Pradeepsingh Rathore [3/4] (KA) 12-10, 11-7, 11-5.

Under-19: Rahul Sanjay Balakrishnan [1] (KA) bt Aatik Yadav (MH) 11-5, 11-7, 11-8.

Girls:

Under-11: Inaya Andrabi [1] (RJ) bt Amirtha Kundave (Goa) 11-2, 11-5, 11-6.

Under-13: Arunima Chaubey (KA) bt Aarna Rao [1] (MH) 8-11, 11-6, 11-9, 2-11, 11-6.

Under-15: Shanaya Roy (MH) bt Deepa Debiram [5/8] (TN) 11-5, 12-10, 15-13.

Under-17: Vasundhara Nangare [1] (MH) bt Arnaa Dwivedi (TS) 11-3, 7-11, 11-7, 11-9.

Under-19: Vyomika Khandelwal [1] (TN) bt Sehar Nayar (CH) 8-11, 11-8, 12-10, 13-11.

Masters:

Above 35 years: Ashish Keskar (Ser) bt Mohd Anas (DL) 11-4, 11-8, 11-6.

Above 45 years: Aditya Maheshwari (MH) bt Benjamin Nedarapalli (MH) 11-8, 11-5, 11-6.

Above 60 years: Deepak Moolani (MH) bt Ashun Bahl (MH) 11-9, 11-6, 11-6.

Men: K S Arihant [1] (TN) bt PR Sandhesh (TN) 11-7, 9-11, 11-3, 8-11, 11-5.

Women: Aryaa Dwivedi (TS) bt B S Sreya (KL) 11-9, 11-3, 11-7.