India's Mahesh Mangaonkar went down to Daniel Mekbib of Czech Republic in five games in the quarterfinal of the Squash XL Open, a PSA World Tour event, in Auckland today.
Mekbib shot down the aspirations of 6th seeded Indian with a hard-fought 13-11, 11-9, 4-11, 6-11, 11-9 win, a SRFI press release here said.
The unseeded Czech, ranked way down in the 150s in the World, had ousted the 2nd seed Ivan Yuen of Malaysia in the first round and appeared to run away with the match against Mahesh too.
But after the Indian found his way in by equalising the score 2-2 in a match replete with hard hitting drives, there was hope of something more.
But Mekbib got back to his winning ways again in the deciding twister and managed to edge out Mahesh at the business end.
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