Thursday, October 27, 2016

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At $325K Men's World Championship 2016, Cairo, Egypt

[Q1] Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,68) bt Omar El Torkey (EGY,478) 11-3, 7-11, 11-4, 11-7 (45m)
[Q1] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND,82) bt Sean Conroy (IRL,165) 11-6, 11-8, 13-11 (36m)
[Q1] Vikram Malhotra (IND,66) bt Ahmad Al-Mudhaf (KUW,331) 11-4, 11-4, 11-3 (16m)

[Q2] Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,68) bt Carlos Cornes Ribadas (ESP,86) 11-9, 11-5, 11-6 (43m)
[Q2] Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND,82) l Karim El Hammamy (EGY,70) 11-6, 6-11, 11-5, 11-13, 10-12 (102m)
[Q2] Vikram Malhotra (IND,66) l Shehab Essam (EGY,88) 8-11, 9-11, 8-11 (35m)

[R1] Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,68) l (8) Miguel Angel Rodriguez (COL,11) 4-11, 11-9, 11-6, 11-3 (53m)
[R1] Saurav Ghosal (IND,23) bt Adrian Waller (ENG,36) 11-7, 11-13, 11-9, 12-10 (66m)

[R2] Saurav Ghosal (IND,23) vs (2) Gregory Gaultier (FRA,2)

In Men's World championship, Mahesh qualified for main-draw with couple of good win ... In the first qualifying round Mahesh received tough fight from u-16 WR #1 Omar El Torkey ... Other hand Sandhu lost titanic battle with top-70 Egyptian Hammamy in 102 mins match ... Sandhu was up 2-1 games and he lost next two games in extra points ... He also missed few match balls, tough loss.

In main-draw Mahesh had a tough match against former top-10 Colombian Miguel Angel Rodriguez ... Mahesh started well winning first game but Rodriguez fought back winning close second game ... After that Rodriguez raised his game and Mahesh failed to cope with that ... Still fighting performance by Mahesh.

Saurav has been stretched by Britisher Adrian Waller in his four games win ... After winning the first game Saurav faced lot of resistant from Adrian ... Saurav kept his focus for winning tight 3rd and 4th games after losing the second ... Next he is facing WR #2 and defending champion Frenchman Gregory Gaultier.

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