India's Sourav Ghosal has made into the semifinals of the Chennai Open squash championships after defeating sixth seeded Chris Simpson of England 11-7 11-7 12-14 11-7 in the quarterfinal on Friday.

The fourth seeded Ghosal won the first two sets but his English opponent came back strongly in the third set to keep his hopes alive in the match at the Indian Squash Academy court. However, Ghosal did not give any more chance to his opponent and sealed the match by winning fourth set.

Ghosal will now clash with second seeded Jonathan Kemp of England in the semifinal on Saturday.

New Delhi, Dec 19 : Saurav Ghosal and Harinder Pal Singh, both representing Tamil Nadu, reached the Open final with contrasting victories in the Senior National Squash Championships at the Delhi Gymkhana here Saturday.

While Ghosal, the reigning national champion, brushed aside Gaurav Nandrajog of Delhi in three straight games, Harinder was involved in yet another marathon, 102-minute encounter before overcoming Siddharth Suchde 3-2.

Meanwhile, the women's final too will be an all-Tamil Nadu affair with seven times champion Joshna Chinappa taking on 15-year-old schoolgirl Anaka Alankamony.

Barcelona, Dec 18 : There will be no change at the top of the spectacularly successful Spanish Davis Cup team after captain Albert Costa confirmed he will remain in the job.

The 2002 French Open champion will now try and follow up a breakthrough first year in which he led the Rafael Nadal-Fernando Verdasco side to a fourth trophy of the decade in the international team competition.

All details were worked out satisfactorily as the Spanish federation extended his contract less than a fortnight after the sweeping finals victory over the Czech Republic.

New Delhi, Dec 16 : Title holder Saurav Ghosal of Tamil Nadu barely raised a sweat in ousting Divyanshu Sharma of Uttar Pradesh 11-3, 11-0, 11-6, in the first round of the Open section at the Senior National squash championship here Wednesday.

Other results:

Open - Main Draw (Round 1): Arjun Agnihotri (SSB) beat Kumar Gaurav (PNE) 11-2 11-4 11-3; Gunraj Singh (DEL) beat (Q3) Pramod Kumar (PNE) 11-6 11-6 7-11 11-5; Ravi Dixit (TN) beat Waqar Pathan (MAH) 11-5 11-4 11-6; Gaurav Nandrajog (DEL) beat Ishaan Ahmed

New Delhi, Dec 15 : Prince Thakur overcame Raunak Garg 11-14, 11-9, 11-6, in the qualifying round of the Senior National squash championship at the Delhi Gymkhana courts here Tuesday.

Other results:

Chennai, Dec 4 : Siddharth Suchde moved 10 places to end the year at 99 in the PSA world squash rankings.

Siddharth's jump was due to his runner-up result at the recently concluded US$6,000 BC Open in Canada.

By virtue of this, Siddharth moves into the second position in the list of Indians behind Saurav Ghosal who is at 32, having gained a spot, according to a press release from the Squash Racquets Federation of India.

Dutch Orla Noom has won the women’s singles title of the WISPA Challenger-2 squash tournament after beating India’s Joshna Chinnappa in the final match at the Indian Squash Academy, Chennai on Saturday.

The 23-year old Chennai girl, Joshna failed to win her fourth WISPA title as she went down to her lower ranked opponent in straight sets by 8-11, 4-11, 10-12 in just 35 minutes in the title clash.

In the PSA Challenger-4 tournament, Ivan Yuen of Malaysia upset 42 ranked Mark Kracsak of Hungary 11-9, 11-9, 11-9 in the final of the men’s singles event in 45 minutes.

Egypt will clash with Hong Kong in the final match of the junior girls' team World Squash Championships (WSC) after ousting United States and India in their respective semifinal matches on Friday.

Hong Kong China ended the campaign of the host Indian team by defeating India 2-1 in the semifinal. Dipika Pallikal of India won her match to give Indian team lead of 1-0. Dipika outplayed Tzs Ling Lu in four games.

Indian girl's squash team has reached into the semifinal of World junior girls' team championship after beating Canada 2-1 on Thursday. Indian team will now clash with Hong Kong, China in the semifinal on Friday.

Anwesha Reddy went down to Kemberley Hay in three games as Canada took 1-0 lead in the match. Anwesha, who was left out in last match, was looking off color in the match and Hay cashed upon her errors to win the crucial points.

The second seeded Indian team has continued their dominance in Women's World Junior Squash Team Championship as they crushed seventh seeded England 3-0 in their final league match in Chennai on Wednesday.

Indian team had already made into the quarterfinals of the tournament where they will play against fourth seeded Canada on Thursday. If India wins the match against Canada, then they will meet the winner of match between sixth seeded Hong Kong and eight seeded New Zealand.

Indian team has defeated France 3-0 in the league phase of the girl’s team event of the World Junior Squash Tournament, and they kept their hopes alive for making into the quarterfinals on Tuesday.

Ananka Alankamony showed brilliant skills to put India to a tie after Indian team went down in first two games. Anaka has replaced Anwesha Reddy in the Indian team. Earlier, Dipika Pallikal led Indian to win first match.

Ananka raised her game after losing first two games to Lecoq, and the French girl was not able to match brilliant performance of her Indian opponent.

The top seeded Indian Dipika Pallikal has stormed into the semifinals of the World Junior (Men and Women) Squash Championship on Friday. Dipika crushed the fifth seeded Nouran El Torky of Egypt in the quarterfinal match of the women's single event.

The quarterfinal match turned out to be another easy outing for Dipika as she raced away with the match against the Egyptian 11-5, 4-11, 11-8, 11-6 in just 37 minutes. Dipika did not face any challenge in previous matches of the tournament but in the quarterfinal match she came back after losing second game. She is now just two wins away from the title win.

The top-seeded Dipika Pallikal of India has stormed into the third round of the 13th Junior World Women's Individual Squash Championship after defeating American Natasha Kingshott at the ICL Academy courts in Chennai on Wednesday.

Dipika lost only six points in her second round match and she raced away with the match against Natasha by 11-5 11-1 11-4 in just 20 minutes.

This was first match for Dipika in the tournament as she got bye in the first round along with three other players including second seeded Heba El Torky of Egypt, third seeded Laura Gemmel of Canada and fourth seeded Nour El Tayeb of Egypt

The campaign of the Indian players came to a halt in the World Games squash competition when National champion Sourav Ghosal lost his match against the top seed Brit Nick Matthew of England on Wednesday at the Chung Cheng Martial Arts Stadium, Kaohsiung.

The eight seed Ghosal was outclassed by Matthew in a four setter quarterfinal match of the men's singles by 4-11, 13-11, 9-11, 6-11.

Earlier, Ritwik Bhattacharya of India also went down to Frenchman Julien Balbo 2-11 21-23 6-11 in the first round of the men’s single event.