Anahat Singh in action© X (Twitter)
India’s campaign ended with the prestigious squash world championships here, the four players losing their respective single matches in the second round. Indian alone in female singles, Anahat Singh lost 1-3 against Fayrouz Aboelkheir of Egypt. Anahat was able to level up the scores at the end of the second match, but finally lost the match 7-11, 11-8, 4-11, 3-11 in the match of the second round which lasted 28 minutes on Sunday evening. Anahat, 17 years old, ranked 62nd in the world, had previously beaten Marina Stefanoni’s world n ° 28 in the first round.
In simple male, Abhay Singh, Veer Chotrani and Ramit Tandon also lost their games in the second round to withdraw from the tournament.
Singh was not up to the number 13 worldwide Youssef Ibrahim of Egypt, losing 0-3 (6-11, 6-11, 9-11), while Chotrani was beaten 1-3 (11-7, 7-11, 3-11, 10-12) by the head of Ali Farag, also from Egypt.
Tandon’s match was closest when he went down by fighting 2-3 (9-11, 7-11, 11-5, 11-8, 8-11) in the eighth seeded Marwan Elshorbagy of England.
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