13th Junior Men's World Championship 2004

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:04 am

17 - 28 Aug 2004 - 13th Junior Men's World Championship 2004

The Indian contingent includes the following;

[1]Saurav Ghosal, 1st round bye
Sandeep Jangra
Harinder Sandhu
A Parthiban
Vikas Jangra

Also, Deepesh Patel (ZIM) will be seen in action.

Kathir

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:47 am

This is the first junior tour assignment after reigning the top spot in juniors for saurav Ghosal and the tourney first / 2nd day results are as follows;

1st round:

Saurav Ghosal (Ind) bt Bye
Sebastian Weenink (Ned) bt Sandeep Jangra (Ind) 9/1,9/10,9/3,9/2 34Min
Ahmed El Swaify (Egy) bt Harider Sandhu (Ind) 9/4,9/2,9/2 33Min
A Parthiban (Ind) bt Ronak Shah (Ken) 9/1,9/0,9/0 10Min

2nd round:

Saurav Ghosal [IND] bt Ben Reece [AUS] 9-3, 9-2, 9-1
Simon Rosner [GER] bt A Parthiban [IND] 9-2, 9-2, 9-5
Ryan Cuskelly [AUS] lt Vikas Jangra [IND] 6-9, 5-9, 9-4, 9-1, 6-9

Kathir

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:05 pm

Come on Saurav Ghosal and add another feather to your cap.

kathiresan_v · Post by **kathiresan_v** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:08 am

The results fron 3rd round;

[1] Saurav Ghosal (IND) bt [17/32] Mohd Nafiizwan Adnan (MAS) 9-2, 9-2, 9-0

[5/8] Chris Simpson (ENG) bt [17/32] Vikas Jangra (IND) 9-1, 9-4, 9-3

That left us with only Saurav in the pre-quarters.

Kathir

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:54 am

Go Saurav go!!!

What bad timing for the junior world championship! Could the organizers not have waited for the Olympics to be over? The world should not come to a stop because of the Olympics but some sporting events can be put on hold until the "Mother of all Games" are over. And squash wants to be included in the Olympics.....

Post by **jayakris** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:17 pm

Oh this hurts!

Top seed Sourav Ghosal crashed out of the men's World junior individual squash championship, losing in the fourth round in Islamabad on Thursday.

The Indian, the favourite for the title, went down to Basit Ashfaq of Pakistan 5-9, 9-0, 7-9, 6-9 in a thrilling encounter.

BSharma · Post by **BSharma** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:56 pm

It looks like the winner had a home court advantage. The Pakistanis are tough on their home court.

PKBasu · Post by **PKBasu** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:54 am

Yesterday was a day of utter tragedy all around for Indian sport. Here's the squash report from Lahore's Daily Times:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as ... 2004_pg2_5

(If it is any compensation at all, the India A cricket team thrashed Pakistan A again in Kenya, with wicket-keeper-batsman Mahindra Dhoni of Bihar starring yet again with a century and two stumpings).