10/11/2008
INDIAN CHALLENGER No 1
Third Time Lucky For Bhattacharya In Chennai
Indian
Challenger
2008
03-08 Nov, Chennai,
$18k |
Round One
05
Nov |
Quarters
06 Nov |
Semis
07 Nov |
Final
08 Nov |
[1]
Saurav Ghosal (Ind)
11/7, 11/7, 11/6 (29m)
[Q] Elvinn Keo (Mas) |
Saurav Ghosal
11/9, 11/6, 11/7 (34m)
Max Lee |
Saurav
Ghosal
11/9, 11/6, 11/6
Chris
Simpson |
Saurav
Ghosal
11/9, 5/11, 4/11, 11/8,
12/10 (65m)
Ritwik Bhattacharya |
[5]
Max Lee (Hkg)
11/4, 9/11, 11/9, 5/11, 11/7 (68m)
[Q] Kamran Khan (Mas) |
[3]
Chris Simpson (Eng)
11/8, 11/3, 11/8 (49m)
[Q] Choong Kam Hing (Mas) |
Chris Simpson
11/4, 11/3, 6/11, 11/2(55m)
Siddarth Suchde |
[7]
Siddarth Suchde (Ind)
12/10, 8/11, 11/5, 11/5 (48m)
[Q] Abdullah Almezayan (Kuw) |
Harinderpal Sandhu (Ind)
11/8, 5/11, 11/9, 11/9 (66m)
[6] Muhd Asyraf Azan (Mas) |
Harinderpal Sandhu
11/5, 11/6, 11/2 (26m)
Dick Lau |
Harinderpal
Sandhu
11/8, 11/5, 11/6
Ritwik Bhattacharya |
[LL] Naresh Kumar (Ind)
11/5, 6/11, 11/6, 11/8 (48m)
[4] Dick Lau (Hkg) |
Gaurav Nandrajog (Ind)
11/5, 10/12, 8/11, 11/4, 12/10
Aqeel Rehman (Aut) |
Aqeel Rehman
11/8, 11/7, 11/4 (22m)
Ritwik Bhattacharya |
Jaymie Haycocks (Eng)
10/12, 11/7, 11/6, 11/9 (35m)
[2] Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind) |
Third Time Lucky For Bhattacharya In Chennai
After losing to his national rival in two previous PSA Tour event finals
on home soil in India, Ritwik
Bhattacharya
bravely fought back from two-games-to-one down to beat Indian compatriot
Saurav Ghosal, the event favourite, to make it third time lucky in the
climax of the inaugural
Indian Challenger No1
at the ICL Squash Academy in Chennai.
Bhattacharya has hit a rich vein of form recently - only two weeks ago reaching
the semi-finals of the African Open in Nigeria after recording one his
best wins of the year in the quarter-finals.
The second seed from Mumbai reached the final of the $18,000 PSA Tour event in
Chennai after fending off unseeded fellow countryman
Harinder Pal Sandhu
in the semi-finals - 19-year-old Sandhu having made it through to the last four
after two sensational upsets over seeded opponents.
Confident Ghosal seemed untroubled as he reached the final without dropping a
game - and looked set to repeat his victories over Bhattacharya in the Otters
Open final in Mumbai in July 2006 and the Chennai Open final three
months ago.
But it was Bhattacharya's day as the 29-year-old world No57 beat Ghosal, the
world No39 from Chennai, 11-9, 5-11, 4-11, 11-8, 12-10 in 65 minutes to record
the eighth title of his career.
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