These events, supported by the ministry of youth affairs and sports to help the Indian squash players to grab honours in the quadrennial events, offers prize fund of $8750 and $8000 for respective events.
Siddarth, Ravi Dixit are among the top Indian players in the men's while Joshna Chinnappa figures in the women's in the PSA AND WISPA events being held here as part of preparing the Indian squash teams for the Commonwealth games in Delhi.
These events, supported by the ministry of youth affairs and sports to help the Indian squash players to grab honours in the quadrennial events, offers prize fund of $8750 and $8000 respectively for PSA and WISPA categories.
South African Stephen Coppinger (PSA ranked 49) has been given the pride of place in seedings and Suchde (ranked 99) and Ravi Dixit (ranked 223) are direct entrants in main draw based on their rankings, while eleven other Indians are would be on view in the qualification rounds.
In the WISPA event, Indian Squash academy player Chinappa (ranked 34) has been given top billing, while Dipika Pallikal (ranked 46), Anaka Alankamony (ranked 87) and Anwesha Reddy (ranked 114) are the direct entrants.
With the second and final qualification round of PSA event fixed for tomorrow, the first round ties held today were won by Naveen Jangra, Deepak Mishra and A.Parthiban (all Indians) and Zyad Alowayesh (Kuwait).
Jangra beat Vrishab Kotian (Ind) 11-6, 11-6, 11-7, eepak Mishra scored over Waqar Pathan (Ind) 11-5, 11-5, 11-4, Parthiban defeated Kush Kumar (Ind) 11-5, 11-9, 11-7, while Alowayesh won against B.Balamurugan came from behind to beat Zyad Alowayesh of Kuwait 11-13, 11-3, 11-8, 11-7.
Nasresh Kumar, Abhishek Pradhan, Karan Malik and Gaurav Nandrajob have been given a bye into the second round of qualifying.
In the lone first round qualification tie today, Ankita Sharms(IND) beat Aisha AL-Hamad (KUW) 11-4, 11-1, 11-2 and she plays Siyoli Waters (S.A), while Faustine Gilles (FRA) take on Surbhi Misra (IND) in the final qualification ties slated for tomorrow.
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