Prabhu, Pandole enter pre quarters

Top seed Navaneeth Prabhu of Tamil Nadu and second seed Jeh Pandole of Maharashtra sailed into the boys' under 13 pre-quarter-finals in the 2-Star Matunga Gymkhana All India Junior Open Squash Tournament today.
India's top junior eased into the last 16 with an easy 11-5, 11-1, 11-4 win over unseeded Rajveer Veera of Maharashtra.
Pandole ousted state rival Yash Motwani in straight games in another second round game.
Joining them in the pre quarters were his TN's Kanhav Nanavati and Nikhil Jaso, Druv Vazirani, Arman Darukhanawalla, Tanay Punjabi - all from Maharashtra - Athrv Yadav of Delhi and Yash Salunkhe of Goa.

In the boys' under-11, second seed Parthiv Yagnesh of Tamil Nadu opened his campaign with a 11-5, 11-3, 11-4 win over Aimaan Zakaria of Maharashtra to enter the last 16.
Results: Boys: U-11 (2nd Round): Devay Mehta bt Aditya Chandani 11-7, 12-10, 11-5; Parthiv N. Yagnesh (TN) bt Aimaan Zakaria 11-5, 11-3, 11-4.
Boys: U-13 (2nd round): Navaneeth Prabhu (TN) bt Rajveer Veera 11-5, 11-1, 11-4; Druv Vazirani bt Shanay Shah 11-0, 11-4, 11-3; Arman Darukhanawalla bt Abhinav Gupta 11-0, 11-2, 11-4; Kanhav Nanavati (TN) bt Shreyansh Agrawal 11-2, 11-1, 11-1; Krish Shah bt Kabir Mehra 11-0, 11-3, 11-5; Aakash Gupta bt Sohail Jain 11-0, 11-0, 11-1.

Tanay Punjabi bt Himay Kapadia 11-3, 11-5, 11-2; Nikhil Jason (TN) bt Yash Kothari 11-1, 11-3, 11-1; Yash Salunkhe (Goa) bt Arnaav Sareen 11-5, 11-6, 9-11, 11-5; Shreemann Raghavan (TN) bt Amaan Habibulla 11-2, 11-1, 11-4; Arnav Mandhana bt Siddharth Rakshit 11-1, 11-1, 11-7; Athrv Yadav (Del) bt Ahaan Bhansali 11-3, 11-5, 11-4; Aryan Khandelwal (MP) bt Aryan Panicker 11-2, 11-3, 11-4; Mir Mehta bt Pururaaj Jagdale 11-4, 11-7, 11-7; Jeh Pandole bt Yash Motwani 11-0, 11-4, 11-2.