Chennai, Nov 26 (FN Agency) The Indian men’s and women’s teams will compete in the 20th Asian Squash Team Championship and the World Men’s Team event to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Top ranked players Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinnappa will lead the Indian challenge in the Men’s and Women’s section. While the Asian event will be held from November 30 to December 4, the World Men’s Team event will be at the same venue after a two day gap from December 7 to 12, a release from SRFI said here today.
In the Asian event, among the 12 teams in the men’s India has been given top billing, while among the 8 teams in the women’s event, the Indian team is seeded three. The seedings for the World Men’s Team event in which 25 countries are participating, is awaited. Following is the team : Men: (Asian and World Men’s Team event) : Saurav Ghosal, Ramit Tandon, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Velavan Senthilkumar. Women: (Asian event) : Joshna Chinappa, Sunayna Kuruvilla, Urwashi Joshi, Aparajitha Balamurukan.