Otters Club Open Squash: Top guns have it easy in round 1

Top seeds Abhishek Pradhan and Abhishek Agarwal sailed into second round of the Otters Club Open Squash Tournament here today.

Pradhan, who reached the Maharashtra Open final last week, brushed aside unseeded Sandeep Singh 11-8, 11-7, 11-1, while Agarwal made a short work of Ayush Singh, dropping 9 points on his way to an 11-1, 11-3, 11-5 victory.

Unseeded 19-year-old Aryaman Adik, who is playing in the men's category, upset higher ranked Paramjeet Singh beating him 11-5, 11-6, 11-5.

In another match, Aishwary Singh, who is seeded in the [9/16] bracket, started his campaign on a high demolishing the unseeded Nitin Agarwal 11-2, 11-0, 11-3 to advance to the second round.

Results: Men (1st round): Abhishek Pradhan [1] bt Sandeep Singh 11-8 11-7 11-1; Khan Shahbaj bt Akash Ashok Kumar [17/32] 11-8 11-4 11-3; Siddharth Rathore [9/16] bt Pushkar Potphode 11-4 11-5 11-5; Aishwary Singh [9/16] bt Nitin Agrawal 11-2 11-0 11-3 ; Aryaman Adik bt Paramjeet Singh [17/32] 11-5 11-6 11-5; Mithun A P bt Rahul Arora [17/32]12-10 11-8 11-7; Abhinav Sinha [5/8] bt Sumit Kumar 11-3 11-3 11-5; Ashray Ohri [5/8] bt Puminder Kumar 11-5 11-4 11-2; Kunj Rawani [9/16] bt Vipul Sharma 11-6 11-4 11-8; Ranjit Singh [3/4] bt Amrit Dasgupta 11-4 11-4 11-2 ; Abhishek Agarwal [2] bt Ayush Singh 11-1 11-3 11-5.