National Squash: Yusha Nafees and Unnati Tripathi Take Under-19 Titles

Jaipur, October 29: The Sub-Junior and Junior National Squash Championship concluded on Thursday with Uttar Pradesh's Yusha Nafees and Unnati Tripathi winning the Under-19 boys' and girls' titles. Both players toppled top seeds to claim their first national crowns in the category.

Nafees, the second seed and previous year's runner-up, won in straight games against Maharashtra's Purav Rambhia. Unnati, the 3/4 seed, defeated Maharashtra's Akanksha Gupta, last year's runner-up, in four games.

Also on the final day, Hridhan Shah of Maharashtra won the Under-17 boys' title after beating Tamil Nadu's Shiven Agarwal in five games.

West Bengal's Alia Kankariya claimed the Under-13 girls' title, and Rajasthan's Inaya Andrabi won the Under-11 girls' title. Both overcame top seeds in five-game contests.

The finals were set on Wednesday, when Nafees and Akanksha Gupta reached the Under-19 final for the second consecutive time. Nafees beat Rajasthan's Subhash Chaudhary, seeded 5/8, 18-16, 11-3, 11-1. Akanksha, the top seed, beat Uttar Pradesh... Maharashtra teammate Isha Srivastava 11-7, 11-8, 14-12.

Unnati reached the final by beating second seed and defending champion Anika Dubey.

In the Under-17 boys' semifinals, Hridhan Shah defeated top seed Shreyansh Jha, while Shiven Agarwal beat second seed Lokesh Subramani. Karnataka's Riyansika Verma defeated top seed Adya Budhia in five games in the Under-17 girls' semifinal, and Divyanshi Jain beat Tamil Nadu's second seed Gaushika M in the Under-15 girls' semifinal.