Top-seeded Indian males superior to the ultimate of the twentieth Asian Squash Team Championships with a 2-0 win over Hong Kong within the semi-finals in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
However, the third seeded ladies’s workforce went down 1-2 to Hong Kong within the semi-finals, regardless of their No. 1 participant Joshna Chinappa giving them the lead.
In the boys’s match, Ghosal defeated Yip Tz Fung in 4 video games after dropping the primary sport when Ramit Tandon gave India a 2-0 win towards second-seeded Malaysia on Saturday with a Henry Leung defeat. Winner over Japan.
World quantity 15 Ghosal made a comeback from a sport down Fung to a 10-12, 11-6, 11-6, 15-13 victory within the subsequent three matches in a 55-minute match.
Tandon made an analogous comeback after dropping the opening sport, defeating Leung in a four-game wrestle.
This is the third time that Indian males have made it to the finals, after doing so in 1981 and 2012.
In the ladies’s semi-final, Chinappa gave India the lead with a hard-fought four-match win over Liu Tze Ling.
However, Sunaina Kuruvilla and Urvashi Joshi proved no match for his or her opponents, dropping in straight video games handy Hong Kong the victory.
Result
Men’s Team Event Semifinals: India beat Hong Kong 2-0 (Sourav Ghoshal beat Yip Tz Fung 10-12, 11-6, 11-6, 15-13 (55m); Ramit Tandon beat Henry Leung 4-11, 11 -5, beat 11-8, 11-5 (37m)
Women’s Semi-Finals: Hong Kong beat India 2-1 (misplaced to Liu Tze Ling Joshna Chinappa 11-9, 5-11, 7-11, 5-11 (33 m)); Ho Tze Lok beat Sunayna Kuruvilla September 11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-8 (40 m); Tong Tz Wing beat Urvashi Joshi 12-10, 11-4, 11-6 (24m)
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
