Sandhu Scores Second Indian Circuit Success by Nathan Clarke October 20, 2014
- India's Harinder Pal Sandhu claimed his second title on the JSW
Indian Squash Challenger Circuit when he beat Egyptian Shehab Essam
Hosny in the final of the third PSA Challenger 10 event at the National
Sports Club of India in Mumbai.
Sandhu was successful
in the opening tournament of the series in Jaipur – but then went out
in the quarter-finals of event No.2 in Mumbai, losing in four games to
the lower-ranked Hosny.
So revenge was
uppermost in his mind when the top seed from Chennai lined up against
the Egyptian for the second time in just over a week – Sandhu
celebrating the eighth PSA World Tour final of his career and
19-year-old Hosny, the fourth seed, his first after upsetting Kuwait's
No.2 seed Ammar Altamimi in the semi-finals.
Sandhu recovered from
1-7 down in the opener to take the first game – and again came from
behind in the second to extend his lead to 2/0.
But the local hero was
dominant in the third and closed out the match 11-9, 11-7, 11-7 in 50
minutes to secure the fourth Tour title of his career.
“It went better than
expected," explained the Chandigarh-born 25-year-old later. "It’s
only been a week since I lost to him the 3/1 in quarterfinals at Juhu.
"I knew from the first
point today that he’d come out fighting," added Sandhu. "I had to
stick to the side walls or keep him behind me. It wasn’t working
till I was 7-1 down in the first game. But from then, I just kept
the pressure on.”
RESULTS: PSA Challenger 10 JSW PSA Indian Circuit 3, Mumbai, India
