India’s star player Saurav Ghosal is expecting two medals from the squash courts at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. “I would say two but it can be nil also
India’s star player Saurav Ghosal is expecting two medals from the squash courts at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. “I would say two but it can be nil also.
The main challenge would be from the players representing England, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia,” said the 27-year-old World No 16 at the Cricket Club of India yesterday.
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Saurav Ghosal
Ghosal, individual event bronze medal winner in the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games and a team bronze winner in the latter edition, is seeded fourth in men’s singles at CWG.
England’s trio of defending champion Nick Matthew, last edition’s silver medallist James Willstrop and the man who conquered Ghosal in the pre quarters at Delhi four years ago — Peter Barker — are the three men ahead of the Indian hope in the seedings.
Good chance
This has smoothened his passage somewhat, feels the Kolkata-born Ghosal. “This is good for me. I won’t meet any of the top three before the semis. But there are good players in the 5-8 seedings too and I would meet one of them in the quarter-finals. There are 3-4 good players in the 9-16 slot too,” said Ghosal who became the first Indian to enter the World Championship quarter finals in 2013. Ghosal is to partner Harinder Pal Sandhu in the men’s doubles and India’s top woman player Dipika Pallikal in the mixed doubles in the CWG while Dipika would partner Joshana Chinappa in the women’s doubles.
Ghosal said his decision to play in the CCI-PSA international tournament in progress here was to get good match practice for the CWG squash championship commencing on July 24.
Practice ahead of CWG
“I normally do not play 25000 dollar events but am playing this to get good practice for the Commonwealth Games. I have a tough first round (tomorrow),” he said adding he and his teammates would be in Scotland five days ahead of the CWG Games Opening.
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