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31 Saurav Ghosal
56 Ritwik Bhattacharya
112 Siddharth Suchde
135 Harinder Pal Sandhu
154 Naresh Kumar
181 Gaurav Nandrajog
305 Ravi Dixit
383 Aditya Jagtap
383 Karan Malik
383 Ramit Tandon
Women
41 Joshna Chinappa
48 Dipika Pallikal
168 Anwesha Reddy
189 Surbhi Misra
ICL Squash Academy, Chennai trainee Solomon Ravi playing on his maiden international tour will return home victorious after defeating countryman Robin Mann from Delhi. Last week Solomon finish 4th in Kuala Lumpur at the Malaysian Junior Open and this week he went all the way to the top at the Penang Junior championships being played at Penang (31May-4thJune).
It was a great day for the juniors as all the top 3 position in the Boys under 11 went to India. Abhay Singh also from Chennai lost in a 5 set marathon against Solomon in the semi finals. In the girls under 11 Ryna Kishanchandani from Mumbai attained the 4th position. Sandeep Ramachandran, Chennai finished 4th in the Boys under 13 category.
Men
31 Saurav Ghosal
57 Ritwik Bhattacharya
115 Siddharth Suchde
139 Harinder Pal Sandhu
150 Naresh Kumar
169 Gaurav Nandrajog
298 Ravi Dixit
371 Aditya Jagtap
371 Karan Malik
371 Ramit Tandon
Women
41 Joshna Chinappa
49 Dipika Pallikal
163 Anwesha Reddy
185 Surbhi Misra
Ravi Dixit an ICL academy player became the first Indian to win the Milo All Star Malaysian Junior Open Boys under 19 title in Kuala Lumpur. Given top billing, Ravi had to go thru 6 rounds before defeating home favourite in the final Jo Wen Ng in 4 games 11-8,6-11,12-10,11-9. In the semi final, Ravi defeated country mate Karan Malik in a closely contested match 11-7, 1-11, 11-8, 12-10 and had it tougher in his quarterfinal defeating Julius Krauss from Australia 11-6,5-11,11-4,4-11, 11-9.
This is Ravi’s third international title after winning the Scottish Junior and Penang Junior Open. Last year, Ravi was the runner up in the Boys u17 category at the same event. Ravi was naturally delighted after his victory and wanted to thank the Squash Rackets federation of India, the Delhi Squash association, his coaches for supporting him and the Indian government.
Karan Malik finished in 4th position in the Boys under 19. Ramit Tandon secured 3rd position in the Boys under 17 after losing his semi final match to Ng Long Fung from HK 9-11,11-9,3-11,11-8,11-5.
Robin Mann finished 3rd one head of Solomon Ravi playing in his maiden international tournament in the Boys under 11.
Ravi Dixit, Karan Malik & Ramit Tandon along with coach Gautam Das participated in this event with support from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport under the scheme for “Preparation of Indian teams for the CWG 2010″
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