Yash Fadte, Sanya Vats win u-19 titles

Top-seeds Yash Fadte and Sanya Vats won the boys and girls under-19 titles respectively in style, posting easy wins in the finals of the HCL Sub-junior and Junior National Squash Championship here on Tuesday.

While the promising Fadte eased past Sankalp Anand (Delhi) 11-2, 11-8, 11-4, Vats outplayed Amira Singh 11-5, 11-8, 11-6.

Host Tamil Nadu finished with two titles as Darshil Parasrampuria and Arihant KS won in the boys under-11 and under-13 sections respectively.

Tiana Parasrampuria (girls under-15), Yuvraj Wadhwani (boys under-15) and the talented Neel Joshi (boys under-17) from the START Academy near Mumbai, run by former PSA player and five-time national champion Ritwik Bhattacharya, emerged victorious.

Ace table tennis player G Sathiyan Gnanasekaran gave away the prizes in the presence of Rajat Chandolia, Head of Brand Strategy and Sports Initiatives, HCL Corporation and Cyrus Poncha, Secretary-General, Squash Rackets Federation of India.

Results: (All Finals): Boys under-11: Darshil Parasrampuria (3/4) (TN) bt Aryaveer Dewan (3/4) (Del) 11-7, 11-6, 11-7; under-13: Arihant KS (2) (TN) bt Ekambir Singh (1) (Maha) 11-6, 11-7, 11-13, 11-1;
Under-15: Yuvraj Wadhwani (5/8), (Maha) bt Shaurya Bawa (5/8) (Del) 11-6, 11-5, 7-11, 4-11, 11-7;
Girls: Under-11: Akanksha Gupta (1) (Maha) bt Sehar Nayar (2), (CH) 11-9, 11-5, 11-7; under-13: Anahat Singh (1), (Del) bt Diya Yadav (Maha) 11-5, 11-2, 11-8;
Under-15: Tiana Parasrampuria (3/4) (Maha) bt Pooja Arthi R (3/4), (TN) 11-7, 11-13, 11-7, 6-11, 12-10;