Junior National Squash Championship:<\/b> The Uttar Pradesh duo of Yusha Nafees and Unnati Tripathi won their maiden U-19 boys and girls crowns respectively, beating the top seeds on the concluding day of the Sub-Junior & Junior National Squash Championship in Jaipur on Thursday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Second seed and last year\u2019s runner-up Nafees beat Maharashtra\u2019s Purav Rambhia in straight games, while 3\/4 seed Unnati defeated last year\u2019s runner-up Akanksha Gupta of Maharashtra in four games.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Meanwhile, Hridhaan Shah (MH) edged out Tamil Nadu\u2019s Shiven Agarwal in a five-game thriller in the U-17 boys final.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Alia Kankaria (WB) and Inaya Andrabi (RJ) won the girls\u2019 U-13 and girls\u2019 U-11 crowns respectively, beating the top seeds in five games.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Earlier, Nafees (UP) and Akanksha Gupta (MH) advanced to their second straight U-19 boys and girls finals respectively in the Sub-Junior & Junior National Squash Championship on Wednesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Runner-up last year, second seed Nafees beat Rajasthan\u2019s 5\/8 seed Subhash Choudhary 18-16, 11-3, 11-1 in the semifinals and will meet top seed Purav Rambhia of Maharashtra for the title.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Meanwhile, top seed Akanksha beat state-mate Eesha Shrivastava 11-7, 11-8, 14-12 in the semifinals. In the final, she will take on Unnati Tripathi, who beat second seed and defending champion Anika Dubey in the other semifinal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In boys\u2019 U-17 semifinals, Maharashtra\u2019s Hridhaan Shah stunned top seed and state-mate Shreyansh Jha, while Shiven Agarwal beat second seed and fellow Tamil Nadu player Lokesh Subramani.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Elsewhere, Karnataka\u2019s Riyansika Verma defeated top seed Aadya Budhia in a five-game thriller in the girls\u2019 U-17 semifinals, while Divyanshi Jain upset Tamil Nadu second seed Goushika M in the girls\u2019 U-15 semifinals.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Results (all finals):<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Boys' U-19: 2-Yusha Nafees (UP) bt 1-Purav Rambhia (MH) 11-9, 11-6, 11-6; U-17: 5\/8-Hridhaan Shah (MH) bt 5\/8-Shiven Agarwal (TN) 11-8, 8-11, 11-2, 9-11, 11-2; U-15: 1-Dhruv Johri (HR) bt Vedant Agarwal (JH) 11-6, 11-8, 11-4; U-13: 1-Aaron Arambhan (MH) bt 5\/8-Aryan SK (KA) 11-1, 11-7, 12-10; U-11: 1-Agastya Uppal (DL) bt 3\/4-Yuvaan Verma (RJ) 11-9, 6-11, 11-5, 11-6.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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