India’s Joshna Chinappa beat again South African Lizelle Muller’s problem in 4 video games within the Group-B match on the World Squash Federation (WSF) World Cup 2023 at Express Avenue Mall in Chennai on Wednesday.
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The Squash World Cup witnessed its closest contest but, between Malaysia and Australia, on the Express Avenue Mall on Wednesday.
In a tie that might have gone both method, fourth seed Malaysia scripted a preventing 3-1 win over its fifth-seeded opponent for its second successive victory in Group-A.
Later, within the final match of the day, India blanked South Africa 4-0 with Tanvi Khanna, Saurav Ghosal, Joshna Chinappa and Abhay Singh going about their enterprise in fairly a ruthless method.
Tough battle forward
The host, nevertheless, can anticipate a troublesome struggle from Japan on Thursday.
Earlier, squash powerhouse Egypt, the highest seed right here, dismantled Colombia 4-0 in a Group-A tie.
However, it was the Malaysia-Australia contest that caught the attention for the depth and struggle proven by each groups.
After the younger and gifted Aira Aizman performed a proportion recreation, aided by deft placements, to outwit South Africa’s Jessica Turnbull within the third match to make it 2-1, the fourth and last one between Malaysia’s Sai Hung Ong and Nicholas Calvert noticed the previous popping out with all weapons blazing to snuff out a troublesome problem and seal a win with a 7-6, 7-1, 7-5 verdict.
The outcomes: Group-A: Egypt bt Colombia 4-0 (Kenzy Ayman bt Catalina Pelaez 7-5, 7-5, 7-6; Aly Abou Eleinen bt Felipe Tovar 7-5, 7-2, 7-2; Fayrouz Aboelkheir bt Laura Tovar 7-3, 7-4, 5-7, 7-2; Karim El Hammamy bt Alfonso Marroquín 7-5, 7-3, 4-7, 7-4).
Malaysia bt Australia 3-1 (Xin Ying Yee bt Alex Haydon 5-7, 7-4, 7-2, 7-4; Darren Pragasam misplaced to Joseph White 2-7, 6-7, 1-7; Aira Azman bt Jessica Turnbull 7-6, 7-2, 6-7, 7-1; Sai Hung Ong bt Nicholas Calvert 7-6, 7-1, 7-5).
Group-B:India bt South Africa 4-0 (Tanvi Khanna bt Hayley Ward 7-4, 7-2, 3-7, 7-2; Saurav Ghosal bt Dewald van Niekerk 7-6, 7-4, 7-1; Joshna Chinappa bt Lizelle Muller 7-4, 7-3, 3-7, 7-1; Abhay Singh bt Jean-Pierre Brits 7-4, 3-7, 7-6, 7-5).
Japan bt Hong Kong 3-1 (Akari Midorikawa misplaced to Toby Tse 5-7, 7-3, 4-7, 4-7; Ryunosuke Tsukue bt Andes Ling 7-1, 7-4, 7-1; Satomi Watanabe bt Heylie Fung 7-2, 7-1, 5-7, 7-2; Tomotaka Endo bt Chung Yat Long 7-4, 7-6, 7-5).
