India make winning start in World Junior Squash Team event

CHENNAI, July 19: India made a winning start in the Team event of the World Junior Squash Championships at Houston in US on Thursday, with the boys easing past Kuwait 3-0 in Group F  and the girls putting it past Chinese Taipei by an identical margin in Group D. On Friday, the boys play Brazil while the girls have two matches scheduled ? against Brazil and Australia.

India results: Boys (Group F):

India bt Kuwait 3-0 (Arihant KS bt Abdullah Ali 11-9,11-8,11-6; Ayaan Vaziralli bt Khaled Walead Al Fouzain 11-6, 5-11,11-8, 11-4; Yuvraj Wadhwani bt Jassim Adel Al Ghareeb 11-4, 10-12,11-5,11-0).

Girls (Group D):

India bt Chinese Taipei 3-0 (Nirupama Dubey bt Shu-Yu Lee 11-1, 11-2, 11-1; Shameena Riaz bt Shaw Jen-Ju Pearl 11-3, 11-3, 11-5; Anahat Singh bt Cheng Yu-Chen 11-1,11-1,11-4). (UNI)