Asian Squash Championships 2004

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:19 am

Asian Squash Championships 2004, Malaysia, 18-26 June

Mens' draw (64 size):
First round
[5/8] Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind) v Chan Chak In (Mac)
[9/16] Saurav Ghosal (Ind) v Sit Weng Kai (Mac)
[9/16] Siddharth Suchde (Ind) v Luc Tai (Sin)
Gaurav Nanrajog (Ind) v Mohd Shahril (Mas)
[9/16] Manish Chotprani (Ind) v Kamran Khan (Mas)

Women's draw (32 size):
First round
[5/8] Joshna Chinappa (Ind) v Ahn Eun Chan (Kor)
Sachiko Shinta (Jpn) v Alisha Mashruwala (Ind)
Moon Hee Young (Kor) v Supriya Balsekar (Ind)
Nirasha Guruge (Sri) v Mekhla Subedar (Ind)

Go India!!!

cheers,
Kathir

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:27 am

Kathir,

Are you planning to see the action at the Asian Squash Championships?

If yes, send us some first hand reports.

Thanks in advance.

Best of luck to the Indian players.

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:52 am

...not sure Bhushanji, also the otherside I can't give a better report as neither played this game nor much familier with this game and rules

true!!!

Kathir

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:56 am

How Indian contingent faired in the previous championship's?

Asian Championship 2000:

Ritwik, Manish Chotrani and Dhirij Singh lost in the thrid round. In the women’s side Mekhla Subedar lost in quarters.

In the team championship our men lost in the semis to Pak.

Asian Championship 2002:

In the year 2002 Asian Championship event Ritwik had lived upto quarters, but the women entries Vaidehy Reddy and Joshna were the first round casualties, but Mekhla Subedar reached quarters. The team results were as below: -

Men lost in the semifinal to Pak (0-3), Malaysia won the Championship. The men's team comprised of Rittwik Bhattacharya, Manish Chotrani, Bikram Uberoi.

Women lost in the Final to Malaysia (0-3). The women team comprised of Joshna Chinappa, Vaidehi Reddy, Mekhla Subedar.

Not bad at all!!!

Go Indian contingent; announce the world we are arising!!!

Kathir

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 4:31 am

Men's individual scores;

Round 1:
Siddharth Suchde (Ind) def. Luc Tai (Sin) 9/2.9/1.9/1
Ritwik Bhattacharya def. Chan Chak In (MAC) 9/0,9/1,9/2
Saurav Ghosal (Ind) def. Sit Weng Kai (MAC) 9/0.9/0.9/4
Gaurav Nanrajog (ind) def. Mohd Shahril (MAS) 9/6.4/9.4/9.9/1.9/1
Manish Chotprani (Ind) def. Kamran Khan (MAS) 9/2.9/1.6/9.9/4

Round 2:
Siddharth Suchde def. Roger Ngan (HKG) 9/3,9/4,9/2
Ritwik Bhattacharya (ind) def. Ali b. Al Ramzi (KUW) 9/1.9/1.9/3
Saurav Ghosal (Ind) l. Abdul Khalid Mazayin (KUW) 5/9,2/9,10/9,9/10
Gaurav Nanrajog (Ind) l. Faheem Khan (HKG) 5/9,9/3,4/9,2/9
Manish Chotprani (Ind) def. Dick Lau (HKG) 9/4, 9/1, 9/5

Kathir

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 4:43 am

Women's individuals at Asian Championship 2004

Round 1:
5/8 Joshna Chinappa (Ind) def. Ahn Eun Chan (Kor) 9/4,9/3,9/4
Alisha Mashruwala (Ind) l. Sachiko Shinta (Jpn) 9/0,9/6,4/9,2/9,3/9
Supriya Balsekar (ind) l. Moon Hee Young (Kor) 3/9,6/9,4/9
Mekhla Subedar (Ind) def. Nirasha Guruge (Sri) 9/2,9/0,9/1

Round2:
5/8 Joshna Chinappa (Ind) def. Joannah Yue (Sin)7/9, 9/5, 9/4, 9/0
Mekhla Subedar (Ind) l. 5/8 Tricia Chuah (MAS) 2/9,0/9,9/10

which brings up (Quarters):

5/8 Joshna Chinappa (Ind) vs. 3/4 Lee Hye Kyoung (KOR) Go Joshna!!!

Kathir

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 5:08 am

Men's individuals;

Round 3:
1 Ong Beng Hee (MAS) def. 9/16 Siddarth Suchde (Ind) 9/4, 9/3, 9/0
9/16 Timothy Arnold (MAS) l. 5/8 Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind) 7/9,0/9,3/9
9/16 Manish Chotpraani (Ind) l. 2 Mansoor Zaman (Pak) 0/9,6/9,2/9

Which brings up (Quarterfinals):
5/8 Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind.) vs. 1 Ong Beng Hee (MAS)

That's leave only Ritwik and Joshna in quarters.

Kathir

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 1:11 pm

Good to see Ritwik, Joshna, Siddharth and Manish live up to their rankings. I think Sourav's loss in R2 was certainly a bit disappointing.

The quarterfinals look pretty tough for our stalwarts, with Ritwik facing a particularly challenging match-up. Go Ritwik and Joshna!!

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 7:46 pm

Asian Squash Championship, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia:

Men's Semi-final Results:

Ong Beng Hee (#1 seed) (Mal) bt Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind) 9-5 9-0 9-5
Mohd Azlam (Mal) bt Abdul Khalid Mazayin (Kuw) 9-2 9-3 9-0

Women’s Quarter-final Results:

Nicol David (Mal) bt Mami Nishio (Jap) 9-4 9-4 9-0
Joshna Chinappa (Ind) bt Lee Hy Kyoung (Kor) 2-9 9-5 9-3 9-3
Sharon Wee (Mal) bt Christina Mak (HK) 6-9 9-1 9-0 9-5
Rebecca Chiu (HK) bt Tricia Chuah (Mal) 9-4 9-0 9-0

Joshna will play Nicol David, the top seed, in the semifinal on Monday June 21st.

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:26 am

Good to see Joshna in the Semis. Nicol David is top seed and ranked 8th in the world. So a great challenge ahead for Joshna. Go Joshna!!

Ritwik's loss to Ong Beng Hee is not an disappointing one as the top seed Ong is ranked 20th in the world and Ritwik is not in his great form recent times.

Kathir

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:02 am

Ritwik lost in the quarter-final, right?
I hadn't realised that Malaysia are now the pre-eminent squash-playing nation in Asia...The Pakistanis are no longer the force they used to be, and of course only the Malaysians have both men and women players in the world-class league. But India look like the most credible challengers to the Malaysians in the future...

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:11 am

yeah, men's score reported by Bhushanji above is quartefinal results, I suppose.

Kathir

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:21 am

The SquashNow.com reported the following:
Men's Semi-final Results:

Ong Beng Hee (Mal) bt Ritwik Bhattacharya (Ind) 9-5 9-0 9-5
Mohd Azlam (Mal) bt Abdul Khalid Mazayin (Kuw) 9-2 9-3 9-0

(I cut and pasted the result after adding the seed # of Ong Hee but if you check the full men's draw then you find that Ong versus Ritwik match was a quarterfinal and not a semifinal as reported by SquashNow.)

Semifinal matches:
Ong Beng Hee #1 (Mas)versus Mohd Azlan #3-4 (Mas)
Shahid Zaman # 3-4 (Pak) versus Mansoor Zaman #2 (Pak)

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:14 am

Pakistani squash has been confined to a few families. The most famous of course were the Khans -- of whom the last was 10-time British Open champion Jahangir Khan. (Jahangir's successor Jansher Khan was unrelated to the more famous Khans, although Jansher nearly matched the greatest of them, Jahangir, and came from the same village of Nawakille in NWFP). Jahangir's father Roshan Khan won the British Open once, and his uncle Hashim Khan won it 7 times. In fact, between 1950 and 1962, 22 of the 26 finalists at the British Open were the Khan brothers and cousins (Roshan and Nasrullah were brothers, and were supposedly the "cousins" of Hashim and his brother, the 4-times champion Azam). Jansher's father Mohibullah (who shared a name with one of Hashim's cousins, also a star player) was a world-class player too.

Qamar Zaman was one of the perennial #2s to Jahangir Khan, although he won the British Open once. (He too was related to the famous Khans, as far as I remember). I wonder if these Zamans are the sons or other relatives of Qamar Zaman...

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:57 am

Joshna (IND) lost to Nicol David (MAS) in the semifinal 3-9,8-10,4-9. A good fight against a player, who is the top seed and ranked 8th in the world.

Kathir