Local lad Velavan sails into quarters

CHENNAI: Local lad Velavan Senthilkumar got the better of Japan’s Naoki Hayashi in straight games on Tuesday to progress to the quarter-finals of the HCL SRFI Indian Tour Chennai Leg PSA tournament at the Indian Squash Academy here.

RESULTS (INDIANS UNLESS MENTIONED): Pre-quarterfinals: Men: Khaled Labib (Egypt) bt Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu 11-9, 11-6, 11-9; Yassin Elshafei (Egypt) bt Adegoke Onaopemipo (Nigeria) 12-10, 11-8, 11-9; Velavan Senthilkumar bt Naoki Hayashi (Japan) 11-6, 11-4, 11-8; Tomotaka Endo (Japan) bt Sandeep Ramachandran 11-8, 9-11, 10-12, 11-6, 11-9; Abhay Singh bt Lewis Doughty (England) 11-5, 11-7, 11-1; Martin Svec (Czech Republic) bt Ziad Ibrahim (Egypt) 14-12, 11-4, 11-9; Rahul Baitha bt Abdelaziz Hegazy (Egypt) 11-4, 7-11, 11-9, 11-5; Mohamed Nasser (Egypt) bt Lam Shing Fung (Hong Kong) 13-11, 9-11, 5-11, 11-7, 11-8.

Women: Salma Eltayeb (Egypt) bt Salma El Alfy (Egypt) 11-6, 11-7, 11-1; Tanvi Khanna bt Nour Ramy (Egypt) 11-5, 11-6, 12-10; Sunayna Kuruvilla bt Shameena Riaz 11-3, 11-4, 11-3; Urwashi Joshi bt Tiana Parasrampuria 11-7, 11-8, 7-11, 12-10; Haya Ali (Egypt) bt Anahat Singh 11-9, 9-11, 11-8, 11-9; Kenzy Ayman (Egypt) bt Rathika Suthanthira Seelan 11-3, 11-4, 11-8; Amina El Rihany (Egypt) bt Anjali Semwal 11-1, 11-2, 11-3; Menna Walid (Egypt) bt R Pooja Arthi 12-10, 6-11, 11-6, 11-6