India’s Veer Chotrani has booked his place in the quarter finals of a Silver-level event for the first time after axing No.8 seed Yannick Wilhelmi in straight games at the Squash in the Land 2026 in Detroit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chotrani, who’s appearing in his first Silver tournament on the PSA Squash Tour, followed up his round one 3-0 success with another straight games victory against Wilhelmi to advance to the last eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The World No.52 delivered an impressive display to win 11-6, 11-8, 11-3 and earn himself a quarter-final clash with the tournament’s No.2 seed Leonel Cardenas on Friday evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I feel amazing,” he said post-match. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s first my Silver tournament and my first Silver quarters and I’m stoked to be through today because Yannick [Wilhelmi] has been playing so well lately and I’m proud of myself for performing like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’ve had a good month of training coming into this event and I’m very happy with the way I showed up today. I had a positive mindset and I wanted to execute my gameplan and it worked well so I’m happy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, World No.23 Greg Lobban avoided a shock defeat to World No.77 Muhammad Asim Khan, winning 3-2 in the final match of the day at Urban Squash Cleveland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the women’s side of the draw, Lucy Beecroft produced a sensational comeback from 2-1 to beat No.7 seed Georgia Adderley 3-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beecroft, who’s through to her first Silver quarter-final since the New Zealand Open in 2023, saw her great attacking verve rewarded with a 11-8, 8-11, 10-12, 11-7, 12-10 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It was a tough one and I knew coming in it was going to be a physical battle,” she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’ve been working on that and I’m trying to get more confident in that side of my game and being able to control the pace and play to my strengths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I was able to do that a lot of the time today and Georgia [Adderley] is such a tough player, she’s almost top 20 in the world, she’s an incredible athlete and she’s added a lot of things to her game. It was a tough one but I’m very pleased to get over the line.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Egypt’s Malak Khafagy produced a remarkable fightback of her own to advance to the last eight, recovering from 2-1 down to overcome Alicia Mead 3-2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Women’s Round Two: <\/strong>[1] Olivia Weaver (USA) bt. Nour Aboulmakarim (EGY) 3-0: 11-3, 11-4, 11-3 (22m); [6] Marina Stefanoni (USA) bt. Tomato Ho (HKG) 3-1: 11-1, 8-11, 11-4, 11-2 (29m); [5] Malak Khafagy (EGY) bt. Alicia Mead (ENG) 3-2: 11-8, 4-11, 6-11, 11-5, 11-7 (43m); [3] Jasmine Hutton (ENG) bt. Marta Dominguez (ESP) 3-0: 11-2, 11-7, 11-4 (27m); Sabrina Sobhy (USA) bt. [4] Rachel Arnold (MAS) 3-1: 11-5, 9-11, 11-6, 11-5 (37m); [8] Hollie Naughton (CAN) bt. Saran Nghiem (ENG) 3-1: 11-6, 9-11, 11-5, 11-6 (36m); Lucy Beecroft (ENG) bt. [7] Georgia Adderley (SCO) 3-2: 11-8, 8-11, 10-12, 11-7, 12-10 (59m); [2] Nele Gilis (BEL) bt. Grace Gear (ENG) 3-0: 11-9, 11-4, 11-4 (31m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men’s Round Two:<\/strong>[1] Paul Coll (NZL) bt. Melvil Scianimanico (FRA) 3-0: 11-7, 11-4, 11-5 (39m); [6] Bernat Jaume (ESP) bt. Ivan Perez (ESP) 3-1: 11-6, 12-14, 11-8, 11-5 (61m); Nathan Lake (ENG) bt. [5] Auguste Dussourd (FRA) 3-0: 11-4, 12-10, 11-6 (33m); [3] Gregoire Marche (FRA) bt. Toufik Mekhalfi (FRA) 3-1: 11-9, 11-9, 8-11, 11-6 (61m); [4] Greg Lobban (SCO) bt. Muhammad Asim Khan (PAK) 3-2: 11-3, 11-3, 9-11, 0-11, 11-5 (68m); [7] Raphael Kandra (GER) bt. Perry Malik (ENG)3-0: 11-9, 11-8, 11-5 (26m); Veer Chotrani (IND) bt. [8] Yannick Wilhelmi (SUI) 3-0: 11-6, 11-8, 11-3\u00a0(32m); [2] Leonel Cardenas (MEX) bt. Mazen Hesham (EGY) 3-0: 11-5, 13-11, 11-7 (31m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India’s Veer Chotrani has booked his place in the quarter finals of a Silver-level event for the first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-squash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-scaled.jpg",2560,1709,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-768x513.jpg",640,428,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-1024x684.jpg",640,428,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-1536x1025.jpg",1536,1025,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-2048x1367.jpg",2048,1367,true],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Veer-Chotrani_compressed-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7988,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/7988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}