West Bengal's Krish Kapur stunned top seed Harshit Muchhal of Delhi in straight games to enter the under 19 boys' final in the 2-Star Matunga Gymkhana All India Junior Open Squash Tournament here today.
Kapur shut out Muchhal 11-9, 11-6, 11-7 to earn a shot at Maharashtra's Harshvardhan for the title.
Tamil Nadu's Shreemann Raghavan overcame 3/4 ranked Tanay Punjabi of Maharashtra 11-6, 6-11, 11-9, 12-10 to set up a boys under-13 final with top seeded state rival Navaneeth Prabhu.
Giant-killer Tushar Shahani shocked second seed Aryaman Adik to advance to the boys under-17 final while Aishwarya Khubchandani shocked top seed Avani Nagar to storm into the girls' under-13 final.
India no. 1 and girls under-15 top seed Diya Joukani of Maharashtra survived a scare before prevailing over unseeded state rival Ananya Dabke in five games to enter the final
Results (all semi finals):
Boys: U-11: Jaivir Singh Dhillon (Del) bt Sharan Punjabi 14-12 11-8 11-1; 2-Parthiv N Yagnesh (TN) bt Yuvraj Wadhwani 13-11 11-2 11-5.
U-13: 1-Navaneeth Prabhu (TN) bt Kanhav Nanavati (TN) 11-6 11-4 11-8; Shreemann Raghavan (TN) bt Tanay Punjabi 11-6 6-11 11-9 12-10.
U-15: 1-Veer Chotrani bt Advait Adik 11-8 11-5 11-5; Aryan Parekh bt 2-Rahul Baitha 11-9 11-7 5-11 11-6.
U-17: 1-Abhay Singh (TN) bt Sandeep Paswan 11-8 9-11 11-5 11-5; Tushar Shahani bt 2-Aryaman Adik 12-10 6-11 11-4 11-5.
U-19: Harshvardhan Wadhwa bt Aran Thawani 11-3 11-3 11-9; Krish Kapur (WB) bt 1-Harshit Muchhal (Del) 11-9 11-6 11-7.
Girls: U-11: 1-Yuvna Gupta bt Saisha Gupta 11-2 11-4 11-5; 2-Pooja Arthi R (TN) bt Archita Singh 11-2 11-8 11-3.
U-13: Aishwarya Khubchandani bt 1-Avani Nagar 6-11 12-10 3-11 11-4 11-9; 2-Aryaa Ogale bt Anannya Morey 9-11 3-11 12-10 11-8 11-7.
U-15: 1-Diya Joukani bt Ananya Dabke 8-11 12-10 11-2 7-11 11-9; 2-Aakanksha Rao bt Krithica JS (TN) 11-6 11-9 11-1.
U-17: 1-Jui Kalgutkar bt Navmi Sharma 11-6 11-5 11-6; Sunayna Kuruvilla (TN) bt Koel Shankar 11-2 11-5 11-1.
