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Squash: Ritwik sails into last eight

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Top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya sailed into the last eight of the Jaipur Club Harish Chandra Golecha Memorial squash tournament when he defeated Farid Khan without dropping a point.

Despite landing in the Pink City only a couple hours back, Ritwik took little over 15 minutes to humiliate his opponent from Mayo College 9-0 9-0 9-0.

Other fancied players such as Gaurav Nandrajog, Vikas Jhangra, Supreet Singh and Partha Sharma too made it to the quarterfinals with ease.

Seventh seed Shakti Singh was a suprise loser, going down to Amjad Khan of Squash Rackets Federation of India.

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