Malaysian Duncan Lee (22) proved too good for the 35-year-old Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu as he secured a straight video games victory within the males’s first spherical of the Indian Tour Squash Championship — a PSA Challenger occasion — on the Indian Squash and Triathlon Academy (ISTA) right here on Monday.
It was neck-and-neck within the first recreation because the development of the scoreline would point out: 6-all, 7-all, 8-all, 9-all, 10-all, and 11-all. The margin of errors separated the 2. Up 9-8, Lee hit the tin for Harinder to draw stage. Lee discovered the tin as soon as once more, trying to drop the ball to the underside proper nook, for Harinder to lead 10-9. Harinder made an unforced error in flip to make it 10-10, earlier than making one other on 11-12 to concede the sport to Lee.
Lee was in his ingredient within the second recreation. He appeared to hit the smash, drop, and low balls to break rallies and clinch factors. Harinder had made three unforced errors and failed to retrieve a low ball when he was 1-5 down. Lee produced a backhand smash from shut to the entrance wall to go 6-1 up. He hit three successive cross-court smashes when he went 10-7 up. And he closed out the sport with a backhand drop to the underside left nook.
In the third recreation, Lee seemed undeniably the higher participant as he gained 11-6.
The outcomes (first spherical, Indians except talked about): Women: Shameena Riaz bt Akari Midorikawa (Jpn) 2-11, 12-10, 11-7, 6-11, 11-5; Nadien Elhammamy (Egy) bt Risa Sugimoto (Jpn) 11-1, 11-4, 11-7; Tanvi Khanna bt Lea Barbeau (Fra) 11-5, 11-5, 11-9; Sofia Mateos (Esp) bt Pooja Arthi Raghu 7-11, 11-8, 3-11, 11-8, 11-3; Lojayn Gohary (Egy) bt Nour Ramy (Egy) 11-8, 12-10, 11-5; Rathika Suthanthira Seelan bt Ambre Allinckx (Sui) 11-8, 10-12, 11-3, 3-11, 11-5; Malak Fathy (Egy) bt Colette Sultana (Malta) 11-9, 11-6, 11-9; Tessa ter Sluis (Ned) bt Erisa Sano Herring (Jpn) 11-9, 6-11, 8-11, 11-4, 11-6.
Men: Rahul Baitha bt Baptiste Bouin (Fra) 11-8, 7-11, 11-8, 11-7; Yusha Nafees bt Ammar Altamimi (Kuw) 11-4, 11-9, 13-11; Adballa Hafez (Egy) bt Mohit Bhatt 11-1, 11-2, 11-4; Seif El-Shenawy (Egy) bt Arihant Kalamangalam Sunil 10-12, 11-5, 11-7, 11-6; Tomotaka Endo (Jpn) bt Sandhesh Palanivel Ravikumar 5-11, 11-7, 12-10, 10-12, 11-6; Suraj Kumar Chand bt Om Semwal 11-5, 11-5, 11-6; Duncan Lee (Mal) bt Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu 13-11, 11-7, 11-6; Maceo Levy (Fra) bt Diwakar Singh 7-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-7.
Published – March 17, 2025 09:10 pm IST
