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The Grant Thorton Atlanta Open: May 9th-15th, 2005

QF result

RITWIK BHATTACHARYA (INDIA) lost MATTHEW GIUFFRE (CANADA) 12/10, 4/11, 12/10, 4/11, 11/4

Again tough loss for Ritwik after tremendous win ...

Jaydeep.

Tough loss to the sixth seed, after a very tough fight indeed. Given that he was playing the top-seed in the earlier round, I presume Giuffre (who beat him in Quebec last month) is higher-ranked than Ritwik. If I understand what Dhruv is saying, Ritwik's ranking might actually drop despite beating the 35th-ranked player in the world (and the top-seed in the tournament). That is absurd!!
But Ritwik is clearly making progress: it is very rare for lower-ranked players to beat significantly higher-ranked ones in squash.

June 3, 2005:

Mamut Dutch Open Squash Championships, Almere, Netherlands

Men's 1st round:
[1] Bradley Ball (ENG) bt [Q] Jan Koukal (CZE) 11-7, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7
[5] Shahier Razik (CAN) bt Shamsul Islam Khan (PAK) 7-11, 11-1, 11-4, 11-2
[Q] Scott Handley (ENG) bt [3] Hisham Mohd Ashour (EGY) 11-6, 11-8, 4-11, 11-5
[7] Ben Garner (ENG) bt [Q] Ritwik Bhattacharya (IND) 11-6, 1-11, 11-4, 11-6
[6] Gavin Jones (WAL) bt Raj Nanda (AUS) 11-9, 3-11, 10-11 (1-3), 11-4, 11-8
[4] Davide Bianchetti (ITA) bt Tom Hoevenaars (NED) 11-5, 11-8, 11-3
[8] Stephane Galifi (FRA) bt [Q] Majid Khan (PAK) 11-10 (2-0), 2-11, 11-9, 8-11, 11-7
Stacey Ross (ENG) bt [2] Laurens Jan Anjema (NED) 11-9, 11-3, 11-3

Ritwik back in India ... And really punished his opponent ... Ritwik Bhattacharya won the men’s title in the Delhi Open Squash Tournament ... Ritwik thrashed Gaurav Nadrajog 9-2 9-0 9-4 in the men’s final.

Jaydeep.

Here is a link to a nice article about Ritwik in The Times of India.

Ritwik continues to work and dream. By ABHISHEK SENGUPTA

More news from the ICL Chennai Open - an all Indian final between Ritwik and Siddharth, one which Ritwik won eventually but watch out for Siddharth - he beat players ranked 104, 72 and 57 in the world on his way to the finals !

Top seeds Ritwik Bhattacharya justified his billing by lifting the men's title of the 62nd CCI-Western India Squash championship in Mumbai on Saturday.

Final:

(1) Ritwik Bhattacharya (Del) bt (2) Vikas Jangra (SSCB) 94 92 59 96

Ritwik clinch title

Jaydeep.

Great!! Congratulations!!

Ritwik Bhattacharya won through to the quarter-finals of the Malaysian Open squash championships on Tuesday, as reported here:

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/ ... xspot_html

Last year, this tournament was held in December, and Ritwik had qualified in before losing in the first round. This time he has gone one better. Congratulations!

Today's Malaysian papers reported that he lost in four games to local favourite Ong Beng Hee in the QF.

And here's the report from the quarterfinals:

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/ ... xspot_html

Ritwik is at his highest ranking ever of 59 last month and this QF will get him 85 points which should increase his average of 59 pts (interestingly). He will probably go up to new all time high of 55.

that's good ritwick. He has done a great job. Keep it up. Goodluck Ritwick.

The December rankings are out and Ritwik only went to 58 although the next few rankings are separated by less than 2 points.

Siddharth Suchde, Ritwik Bhattacharya,, Saurav Ghosal took India into the top 12 at this tournament.