Eight-year-old Yugant Gupta of St Gregorios High School (Chembur) beat Dhruv Khanna of Jamnabai Narsee ICSE (Juhu) to clinch boys U-9 Mumbai Schools Sports Association (MSSA) inter-school squash title at the Cricket Club of India yesterday.


Yugant Gupta (right) in action against Dhruv Khanna. Pic/Atul Kamble

This was Yugant's maiden appearance in the MSSA tournament and he was ecstatic at winning gold in his very first inter-school competition. "I am very excited to win my first title. I want to continue playing and will work harder to win more tournaments," said the excited youngster, who began nervously yesterday.