Sundeep Gulati emulates Rehani and Alok Kumar

Delhi based , Sundeep Gulati, becomes the third player from India ever to reach the last 64 of a World Pool Championship by deafting Artem Koshovyi in Doha, Qatar.

He is the third Indian to do so and before him, Late Mukesh Rehani had been into Last-64 of 2003 World 9Ball Pool Championship and in 2011 World 8Ball Pool Championship Alok Kumar had qualified for knockouts and further moved till Last-32 stage.

In Double Elimination Format, Gulati had lost his first match to Omran Salem of UAE but in the losing bracket he defeated Bashar Hussain of Qatar 9-3 and Artem Koshovyi 9-7 to qualify.

The match to qualify was not so easy and he had to fight hard being 4-1 down. From that point he climbed up to make it 7-5 down but eventually won 9-7 to enter Last-64.

Doha :: 25 June 2014