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IBSF World Snooker Championship 2009
News & Updates
REPORT OF 20.11.2009
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16 Indians qualified for the knock-out stage of last 64 of men’s event at
the ONGC-IBSF World Snooker Championship 2009 being held in Hall 3 of
Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad. Out of eight Indians
who played their Round of 64 matches this afternoon, 4 moved up to Round of
32.
 Indian
Maestro Pankaj Advani, with the help of a perfect blend of aggression and
defence, completely outwitted Bobby Cruickshanks of Scotland by 4-0. It was
quite a blow for Bobby who is an old time buddy and practice partner of a very
high ranked professional player Stephen Maguire. Inspite of having a personal
best of 143 in competition, Bobby today could not live up to the expectation
as he went on to make a number of unforced errors during the match. Down 0-3,
Bobby came back strongly in the fourth and fought neck to neck to arrive at
the black-ball decider. A sitter black miss saw him ruining his chances of
snatching the fourth frame from Pankaj. A brilliant safety play by Pankaj
thereafter on the black ball forced Bobby commit a blunder as in an attempt to
return the safety on a cushion stuck black, Bobby ricochet his white ball into
the corner pocket and lost the match 0-4.
In
an all Indian affair, former Asian Snooker champion and top seed at the
knock-out round, Alok Kumar blanked Faisal Khan by 4-0. Kamal Chawla too
posted a commendable win against his compatriot Rupesh Shah by 4-1.
Another Indian Yasin Merchant who had an advantage of 3-1 lead, squandered a
golden chance on the last black on the fifth frame to win the best of 7
encounter, had to go through some anxious moments in the following frames
against Chris Maltby of New Zealand. Yasin eventually won the match by 4-3.
The
others who reached their appointed berth of Round-32 are Tian Pengfei of
China, Supoj Saenla of Thailand, Igor Figueredo of Brazil, Patrick Einsle of
Germany, Alex Borg from Malta and Yu Delu of China.
In
the ladies section, India’s Meenal Thakur edged passed her sister Anuja
Chandra by 4-3 in a closely fought battle to move up to the Quarter Finals.
In
Master’s category Darren Morgan of Wales continued his fiery display of
snooker to reach the round of 16 by demolishing Frank Schroder of Germany 4-0
with breaks of 71, 50 and 59 in second, third and fourth frames respectively.
Chuchart Trairattanapradit of Thailand and Glen Wilkinson of Australia were
the other masters who showed impressive performance by defeating S.A. Saleem
of India and Stevie Baillie of Scotland respectively to move up to the next
round.
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