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SRFI Indian Tour - Chennai Leg 2022 |
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SRFI Indian Tour - Chennai Leg 2022
Men's Draw
19 - 23 Sep
Chennai, India, $12k |
ROUND TWO
20 Sep |
QUARTERS
21 Sep |
SEMIS
22 Sep |
FINAL
23 Sep |
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2] Martin Svec (CZE)
14-12, 11-4, 11-9 (29m)
[9/16] Ziad Ibrahim (EGY) |
Martin Svec
11-4, 11-6, 11-9 (27m)
Tomotaka Endo |
Martin Svec
14-12, 15-13, 11-9 (39m)
Khaled Labib |
Khaled Labib
11-4, 11-3, 11-4 (22m)
Abhay Singh |
[9/16] Tomotaka Endo (JPN)
11-8, 9-11, 10-12, 11-6, 11-9
[5] Sandeep Ramachandran (IND) (58m) |
[7] Mohamed Nasser (EGY)
13-11, 9-11, 5-11, 11-7, 11-8 (62m)
Lam Shing Fung (HKG) |
Mohamed Nasser
6-11, 3-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-7 (59m)
Khaled Labib |
[3] Khaled Labib (EGY)
11-9, 11-6, 11-9 (29m)
[WC] Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND) |
[4] Abhay Singh (IND)
11-5, 11-7, 11-1 (29m)
[9/16] Lewis Doughty (ENG) |
Abhay Singh
11-7, 3-11, 11-6, 11-9 (47m)
Velavan Senthilkumar |
Abhay Singh
8-11, 11-5, 11-4, 4-11, 12-10 (51m)
Yassin Elshafei |
[6] Velavan Senthilkumar (IND)
11-6, 11-4, 11-8 (24m)
[9/16] Naoki Hayashi (JPN) |
[8] Rahul Baitha (IND)
11-4, 7-11, 11-9, 11-5 (43m)
[9/16] Abdelaziz Hegazy (EGY) |
Rahul Baitha
11-6, 6-11, 11-4, 11-4 (34m)
Yassin Elshafei |
[9/16] Adegoke Onaopemipo (NGR)
12-10, 11-8, 11-9 (30m)
[1] Yassin Elshafei (EGY) |
[2] Martin Svec (CZE) bye
[9/16] Ziad Ibrahim (EGY) bt Ho Ka Hei (HKG) 8-11, 11-8, 11-7, 11-1
(35m)
[9/16] Tomotaka Endo (JPN) bt Rounak Yadav (IND) 14-16, 11-3, 11-4, 11-4
(31m)
[5] Sandeep Ramachandran (IND) bye
[7] Mohamed Nasser (EGY) bye
Lam Shing Fung (HKG) bt [9/16] Seif Nasser (EGY) 16-14, 11-6, 11-4 (26m)
[WC] Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND) bt [9/16] Navaneeth Prabhu (IND) 11-2,
7-11, 11-8, 11-8 (43m)
[3] Khaled Labib (EGY) bye
[4] Abhay Singh (IND) bye
[9/16] Lewis Doughty (ENG) bt Mahmoud Abouelleil (EGY) 11-1, 11-3, 11-0
(21m)
[9/16] Naoki Hayashi (JPN) bt [WC] Arihant KS (IND) 11-8, 11-4, 11-5
(22m)
[6] Velavan Senthilkumar (IND) bye
[8] Rahul Baitha (IND) bye
[9/16] Abdelaziz Hegazy (EGY) bt [WC] Yuvraj Wadhwani (IND) 12-10, 9-11,
11-6, 11-3 (34m)
[9/16] Adegoke Onaopemipo (NGR) bt Ravi Dixit (IND) 11-6, 9-11, 11-4,
11-4 (29m)
[1] Yassin Elshafei (EGY) bye |
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SRFI Indian Tour - Chennai Leg 2022
Women's Draw
19 - 23 Sep
Chennai, India, $12k |
ROUND TWO
20 Sep |
QUARTERS
21 Sep |
SEMIS
22 Sep |
FINAL
23 Sep |
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[1] Kenzy Ayman (EGY)
11-3, 11-4, 11-8 (16m)
[9/16] Rathika Suthanthira Seelan (IND) |
Kenzy Ayman
11-5, 11-5, 7-11, 12-10 (30m)
Urwashi Joshi |
Kenzy Ayman
11-13, 9-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-5 (46m)
Tanvi Khanna |
Kenzy Ayman
11-7, 11-2, 11-6 (23m)
Sunayna Kuruvilla |
[7] Urwashi Joshi (IND)
11-7, 11-8, 7-11, 12-10 (29m)
[9/16] Tiana Parasrampuria (IND) |
[6] Menna Walid (EGY)
12-10, 6-11, 11-6, 11-6 (32m)
[9/16] Pooja Arthi Raghu (IND) |
Menna Walid
11-8, 11-9, 7-11, 11-5 (36m)
Tanvi Khanna |
[3] Tanvi Khanna (IND)
11-5, 11-6, 12-10 (31m)
[9/16] Nour Ramy (EGY) |
[4] Haya Ali (EGY)
11-9, 9-11, 11-8, 11-9 (39m)
[WC] Anahat Singh (IND) |
Haya Ali
8-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-5 (33m)
Sunayna Kuruvilla |
Sunayna Kuruvilla
11-6, 11-7, 13-11 (26m)
Salma Eltayeb |
[5] Sunayna Kuruvilla (IND)
11-3, 11-4, 11-3 (16m)
[WC] Shameena Riaz (IND) |
Amina El Rihany (EGY)
11-1, 11-2, 11-3 (15m)
[8] Anjali Semwal (IND) |
Amina El Rihany
11-7, 11-1, 11-4 (17m)
Salma Eltayeb |
[9/16] Salma El Alfy (EGY)
11-6, 11-7, 11-1 (23m)
[2] Salma Eltayeb (EGY) |
[1] Kenzy Ayman (EGY) bye
[9/16] Rathika Suthanthira Seelan (IND) bt [WC] Vasudha Surange (IND)
11-8, 12-10, 11-7 (24m)
[9/16] Tiana Parasrampuria (IND) bt Radhika Rathore (IND) 11-2, 11-5,
11-5 (15m)
[7] Urwashi Joshi (IND) bye
[6] Menna Walid (EGY) bye
[9/16] Pooja Arthi Raghu (IND) bt Lim Jee Nee (SGP) 11-3, 11-5, 11-3
(15m)
[9/16] Nour Ramy (EGY) bt Sanika Choudhari (IND) 11-9, 11-3, 12-10 (30m)
[3] Tanvi Khanna (IND) bye
[4] Haya Ali (EGY) bye
[WC] Anahat Singh (IND) bt [9/16] Janet Vidhi (IND) 11-8, 11-4, 11-5
(24m)
[WC] Shameena Riaz (IND) bt [9/16] Shahd Elrefaey (EGY) 12-10, 11-9,
6-11, 11-3 (28m)
[5] Sunayna Kuruvilla (IND) bye
[8] Anjali Semwal (IND) bye
Amina El Rihany (EGY) bt [9/16] Ona Blasco (ESP) 11-0, 11-4, 11-4 (15m)
[9/16] Salma El Alfy (EGY) bt Sunita Patel (IND) 11-7, 6-11, 11-8, 11-6
(33m)
[2] Salma Eltayeb (EGY) bye |
Ayman and Singh Victorious
Kenzy Ayman in action at the Open de France de Squash
The 4th HCL SRFI Indian Tour – Chennai Leg came to a conclusion on
Friday afternoon at the Indian Squash Academy, with home favourite Abhay
Singh and Egypt’s Kenzy Ayman taking home the Challenger 10 level
titles.
Singh, the leading Indian in the men’s draw, came into the competition
as the No.4 seed, and started off his week with a bye through to the
second round in Chennai. He then got the better of England’s Lewis
Doughty, before overcoming the challenge of compatriot and No.6 seed
Velavan Senthilkumar to make it through to the semi-finals.
In the last four, the Indian came up against top seed, Egypt’s Yassin
Elshafei, for a place in the final. He held a 2-1 lead following the
third game, but saw the Egyptian show his class in the third to level
the contest. The deciding game went to a tie-break, but it was Singh
that won it 12-10 to advance through to the final on home soil.
The final saw Singh take on Egypt’s Khaled Labib, the tournament’s No.3
seed, for the title, and the Indian was in top form, dropping just 11
points across the three games, to win 11-4, 11-3, 11-4 in just 22
minutes. With that win, he claims his second title of the season,
becoming only the third multiple-victor of the 2022-2023 campaign to
date, joining Hong Kong’s Tsz Kwan Lau and Chan Sin Yuk.
Abhay Singh
In the women’s event, top seed Kenzy Ayman showed her class to come
through a difficult field to claim her second victory of the year. Like
Singh, she also received a bye through the opening day’s action in
Chennai, before starting her campaign in the last 16 with a comfortable
win against Rathika Suthanthira Seelan of India.
Ayman then overcame the challenge of No.7 seed Urwashi Joshi in four
games, recovering after dropping the third to win the fourth on a
tie-break 12-10. She followed that with a come-from-behind win against
No.3 seed Tanvi Khanna, who had led 2-0 in the match. However, the
turning point was the third game, one which Ayman won 11-6, before going
on to win both the fourth and fifth games by an 11-5 scoreline.
She moved through to the final thanks to that win, and she came against
another Indian, her fourth of the week, in Sunayna Kuruvilla. The No.5
seed had defeated Ayman’s compatriot, No.2 seed Salma Eltayeb in
straight games in the semi-finals, but Ayman made sure there would be no
repeat of that in the final, as she took victory in 23 minutes, winning
11-7, 11-2, 11-6 to secure her first win of the season, and second of
the year following her victory in Bermuda in May.
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Kuruvilla
Gatecrashes Last Four
There was just the one surprise result on quarter finals day at the 4th
HCL SRFI Indian Tour – Chennai Leg, as home hope Sunayna Kuruvilla took
down Egypt’s Haya Ali to make the last four of the women’s event.
Kuruvilla came into the tournament as the No.5 seed, and in the last
eight of the competition, she came up against Egypt’s Haya Ali, and she
would lose the first game of their contest. However, the Indian fought
back to win both the second and third games by 11-8, before then winning
the fourth game 11-5 to book her spot in the semi-finals.
She will now face the tournament’s No.2 seed, Egypt’s Salma Eltayeb in
the semi-finals at the Indian Squash Academy, while the other last four
clash in the women’s event will see another Egypt-India battle, as top
seed Kenzy Ayman and No.3 seed Tanvi Khanna will go head-to-head.
In the men’s draw in Chennai, the top four seeds all made it through to
the semi-finals, but that was not without a scare. Egypt’s Khaled Labib,
the No.3 seed, had to come from two games down to overcome compatriot
and No.7 seed Mohamed Nasser on Wednesday afternoon.
Nasser took the first two games comfortably, dropping just nine points
across the pair, but from there, Labib was able to turn the tie on its
head. He won the third 11-9 to stay in the match, before then going on
to win the fourth game by the same scoreline. He continued that momentum
into the deciding fifth game, winning it 11-7, to book his place in the
semi-finals of the competition.
The Egyptian will now face the Czech Republic’s Martin Svec in the
semi-finals, while top seed Yassin Elshafei will take on India’s Abhay
Singh, the last home hope in the men’s draw, in the last four.
The semi-finals of the 4th HCL SRFI Indian Tour – Chennai Leg will take
place on Thursday, September 22, with the last four going head-to-head
for places in the final of the Challenger 10 level competition.
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Endo and El
Rihany Cause Upsets
The second day of the 4th HCL SRFI Indian Tour – Chennai Leg saw a
couple of upsets, as Japan’s Tomotaka Endo and Egypt’s Amina El Rihany
both knocked out seeded players to make it through to the last eight.
Japan’s Endo took on No.8 seed Sandeep Ramachandran in the second round
of the Challenger 10 level competition, and the pair went the distance,
with the Japanese No.3 having to come from 2-1 down to take victory in
the deciding game of their contest.
Endo won the first game 11-8, but then saw the Indian take both the
second and third games, including the third on a tie-break 12-10, to
flip the match on its head. The Japanese man had to fight, and he did,
winning the fourth game 11-6, before scraping through in the decider,
winning it 11-9 to book his spot in the last eight in Chennai.
Elsewhere in the men’s event, Egypt’s Mohamed Nasser, the No.7 seed for
the competition, also had to come from behind to win in five against
Hong Kong’s Lam Shing Fung. He won the last two games of their second
round contest with 11-7 and 11-8 scorelines, to advance to the quarter
finals.
In the women’s tournament , Egypt’s Amina El Rihany was the only player
to cause a seeding upset on the second day of competition, as she got
the better of Indian No.8 seed Anjali Semwal in straight games. The
Egyptian dropped just six points in a 15-minute rout of her opponent,
winning 11-1, 11-2, 11-3 o make the quarters in Chennai.
The quarter finals of the Challenger 10 level 4th HCL SRFI Indian Tour –
Chennai Leg will take place on Wednesday, September 21, with the last
eight aiming to make it through to the semi-finals at the Indian Squash
Academy.
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Three
Wildcards Make Second Round
The opening day of the 4th HCL SRFI Indian Tour – Chennai Leg saw a trio
of wildcards make it into round two, with Anahat Singh, Shameena Riaz
and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu all victorious in the first round of the
Challenger 10 level competition.
14-year-old Anahat Singh, who starred at the Commonwealth Games in
Birmingham in July, is featuring in her first tournament on the PSA
Challenger Tour, and she got her career off to the perfect start,
overcoming the challenge of compatriot Janet Vidhi in straight games.
Singh, who was given a wildcard spot for the Challenger 10 level
tournament, had to come through a tight first game, winning it 11-8,
before the cruising to victory across the next two games, with
scorelines of 11-4 and 11-5. She will now take on the tournament’s No.4
seed, Haya Ali, in the second round.
The other wildcard to take victory in the women’s event was Shameena
Riaz, with the Indian coming through her contest against Egyptian Shahd
Elrefaey. Riaz took the first on a tie-break, before doubling her
advantage after winning the second game 11-9. She lost the third, but
bounced back strongly in the fourth to seal the deal, to move through to
the second round where she will take on compatriot and No.5 seed Sunayna
Kuruvilla.
In the men’s event, former World No.47 Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu was
given one of the wildcard spots for the competition, and he did not
disappoint on the opening day, getting the better of fellow Indian
Navaneeth Prabhu in a four-game contest in Chennai.
The second round of the 4th HCL SRFI Indian Tour – Chennai Leg will take
place on Tuesday, September 20, with the eight seeded players in both
draws starting off their campaigns.
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