Squash News
At the 16th Asian Junior Team Squash Championship, Seoul, Korea

[Boys - SF] India bt Hong Kong, China 2-1
Mahesh Mangoankar bt Yeung Ho Wai 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-8)
Kush Kumar bt Wong Chi Him 3-1 (11-3, 11-2, 8-11 11-4)
Madhav Dhingra l Leung Chi Hin Henry 0-2 (5-11, 9-11)

[Girls - SF] India bt Malaysia 2-1
Anaka Alankamony bt Vanessa Raj Gnanasigamani 3-0 (11-4, 11-7, 11-5)
Aparajitha Balamurukan l Rachel Mae Arnold 0-3 (4-11, 7-11, 5-11)
Lakshya Ragavendran bt Celine Yeap Shu wan 3-0 (11-6, 11-6, 13-11)

[Boys - QF] India bt Iran 3-0
Mahesh Mangoankar bt Farzad Shokouhi 3-0 (11-8, 11-6, 11-2)
Kush Kumar bt Soheil Shameli 3-0 (11-2, 11-2, 15-13)
Deepak Mishra bt Alireza Shameli 2-0 (11-6, 11-2)

Boys Pool B
India bt China 3-0
Kush Kumar bt Liang Jun 3-0 (11-1, 11-2, 11-3)
Madhav Dhingra bt Yang Tian Xia 3-0 (11-1, 11-0, 11-0)
Deepak Mishra bt Wang Jia Xu 3-0 (11-1, 11-1, 11-1)

India bt Korea 3-0
Mahesh Mangoankar bt Ko Young Jo 3-0 (11-9, 13-11 11-1)
Kush Kumar bt Yoo Seung Ryung 3-1 (11-9, 11-5, 9-11, 11-6)
Madhav Dhingra bt Ryu Han Dong 3-0 (11-3, 11-0, 11-4)

India bt Jordan 3-0
Mahesh Mangoankar bt Ahmad Al Saraj 3-2 (11-7, 11-4, 9-11, 8-11, 11-6)
Kush Kumar bt Mohammad Al Khasawneh 3-0 (11-9, 11-6, 11-8)
Deepak Mishra bt Hamza Alzubaidi 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 11-7)

Girls Pool A
India bt Chinese Taipei 3-0
Aparajitha Balamurukan bt Lin Chiao Chi 3-0 (11-5, 11-5, 11-1)
Harshit Kaur Jawanda bt Hung An Jung 3-0 (11-3, 11-2, 11-4)
Lakshya Ragavendran bt Chu Yi Hsuan 3-0 (11-1, 11-0, 11-0)

India bt China 3-0
Anaka Alankamony bt Duan Si Yu 3-0 (11-0, 11-0, 11-1)
Aparajitha Balamurukan bt He Xin Ru 3-0 (11-1, 11-1, 11-0)
Lakshya Ragavendran bt Zhou Li Bo 3-0 (11-0, 11-0, 11-0)

India bt Korea 3-0
Anaka Alankamony bt Park Min Ju 3-0 (11-4, 11-2, 11-3)
Aparajitha Balamurukan bt An Ye Jin 3-0 (11-3, 11-7, 11-3)
Harshit Kaur Jawanda bt Eum hwa Yeong 3-0 (11-6, 11-6, 11-3)

India bt Japan 3-0
Anaka Alankamony bt Risa Sugimoto 3-0 (11-3, 11-6, 11-8)
Aparajitha Balamurukan bt Satomi Watanabe 3-1 (11-5, 11-4, 6-11, 11-4)
Lakshya Ragavendran bt Hinako Sakai 3-0 (11-4, 11-2, 11-4)

This is the only second time that Indian boys and girls team have reached in the finals at the same tournament ... Before this it was happened in 2003 in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Lakshya Ragavendran won the deciding match to take Indian girls into the finals at Asian Junior Team Championship ... Anaka Alankamony gave winning start against Malaysian top seed but Aparajitha Balamurukan lost her match against Malaysian no. 2 ... In the final Indian girls r facing Hong Kong.

Indian boys also entered the final beating Hong Kong 2-1 ... Kush Kumar gave winning start after losing 3rd game ... Mahesh Mangoankar won his match convincingly and secured our place in the final ... In the final match Madhav Dhingra lost in straight games ... In the final our boys r facing top-seed Pakistan.

Before this our boys and girls won their respective groups without losing a single match ... Our boys qualified for the quarters as Pool B winner and our girls qualified for the semis as Pool A winner.