Aditya Mehta bows out of the World Snooker Qualifiers

Leading Indian cueist Aditya Mehta’s professional season (2013-14) campaign came to an end on Saturday following a 5-10 loss to Jamie Jones, world ranked 47 in the third round of Dafabet World Championship qualifiers being played at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield.

The 59-ranked Indian expressed disappointment and not making the main draw in a tweet. "So that's that. end of season for me .. poor display today so pretty disappointed to finish off like that. But life goes on.... I'll be back".

Aditya had a great season where he started as 73rd ranked player and after China Open his rank bettered by 14 positions to land at 59. His best performance was in front of his home crowd in Indian open where he reached the final and finished runner-up against the World No.2 Ding Junhui of China.

Meanwhile, Pankaj Advani notched up a 10-9 win to set up a third round clash against 68th ranked Robbie Williams on Sunday.

At one stage, Advani was trailing 2-5 and was also down by few frames to Li Hang but when only two frames away from defeat, Advani responded under pressure and won the next three to enter the round three. (Frame: 60-27, 58(52)-70, 02-100 (63), 62-25, 00-140 (116), 56 (55)-67 (67), 28-70 (52), 62-51, 01-128 (120), 72-42, 72-59, 07-68 (61), 01-100 (85), 78-54, 87-00, 73 (67)-01, 20-82, 73-12, 64-01).

In round three, Pankaj is now leading 5-4 against Robbie Williams at the end of Session 1.

Sheffield :: 13 April 2014