Chennai, It was a good day for the seeded players with all the higher-ranked players winning their matches and entering the summit clash in the ISTA Junior Open Squash tournament here today. Only two matches went the distance in the girls under 13 category and in the boys under 17 category. In the boys under 17, Rohan Arya Gondi [2] defeated Shaurya Bawa [3/4], clawing his way back from 1-2 games down, and ISTA trainee Yaavnaa Saravanakumar [5/8] losing to Vyomika Khandelwal [1] in a nail-biting encounter. The girls' finals in the under 17 category will see ISTA trainees Pooja Arthi and Akshaya Sri S competing against each other. Results: Semifinals: Boys U13 Aryaveer Dewan (1), DL, def. Ijaz Mohammed, TN, 11-4 11-7 11-5 . Darshil Parasrampuria, TN, def. Agastya Bansal (3/4), MH, 11-6 11-6 12-10 . Boys U15 Arihant Ks (1), TN, def. Udit Mishra, RJ, 11-4 11-1 11-7 . Priyaan Thakker, MH, def. Abhiraj Singh (3/4), UP, 12-10 11-5 11-6 . Boys U17 Krishna Mishra (1), MP, def. Arush Chatterjee, DL, 11-4 11-6 11-4 . Rohan Arya Gondi, TL, def. Shaurya Bawa (3/4), DL, 11-7 6-11 4-11 11-9 11-9 . Boys U19 Kanhav Nanavati (1), TN, def. Rutva Samant, MH, 11-8 11-7 11-5 . Mohit Bhatt, MH, def. Adhil Mohammed Syed (3/4), TN, 11-8 11-4 11-8 . Girls U13 Vyomika Khandelwal (1), MH, def. Yaavnaa Saravanakumar, TN, 9-11 11-8 11-7 9-11 11-9 . Diva Shah (3/4), MH, def. Kriya Saravanan, TN, 11-8 11-8 11-7 . Girls U15 Anahat Singh (1), DL, def. Riya Balaji, TN, 11-4 11-2 11-5 . Navya Sundararajan, UP, def. Ananya Narayanan (3/4), TN, 11-7 11-6 11-9 . Girls U17 Pooja Arthi R (1), TN, def. Shameena Riaz, TN, 11-5 11-8 11-7 . S Akshaya Sri, TN, def. Advita Sharma (3/4), DL, 8-11 11-8 11-9 11-9.
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