Chennai: 14 players from India participated in the KL Junior Open held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from December 13 – 18. Naveneet Parbhu, a trainee at the Indian Squash Academy, was the youngest player from India contingent to participate in this event and won his maiden international title in under-9 boys category. Seeded 3/4, he defeated Sacchin Kumar (Mal), second seed of the tournament, 3-1. He is the first Indian to win an U-9 international event.

Robin Mann from Delhi was the top seed in the boys’ U-15 category and registered his victory defeating Mathew Nam (HKG) in three straight sets.

Harshit Kaur also from Delhi won her second event in the Asian Circuit after winning the Indian Junior Open in Chennai. Harshit started with an aggressive and attacking plan keeping her opponent Gilian May Ng from Malaysia deep into the corners. Playing with supreme confidence Harshit won her match 11-9,11-7,11-8.

In the quarters and semis Harshit defeated her Malaysian and Sri-lankan opponents respectively 3-2.

The final positions were:

Boys

U 9 – Navaneeth Prabhu(TN) – Winner

U 11 – Yashwant Ragav(TN) – 5 th
Pranav Visvesh(TN) – 7th

U13 – Robin Mann(Del) – Winner
Yash Bhargava(DEL) – 5th
Abhay Singh(TN) – 9th
Siddhanth Iyer(MAH) – 17th
Aman Kumbhani(MAH) – 19th

U15 – Mudit Pant(DEL) – 14th

U17- Ranvijay Singh( DEL) - 17th

U19 – Akshay Deepak(TN) - 6th

Girls

U13 – Aishwarya Bhattacharya – 3rd

U15 – Harshit Kaur(Del) - Winner
Mayuri N(TN) - 8th
A.V.Apoorva – 16th