Elphinstone Cricket Club

Sohrab Gandi & Naval Tata Open Handicap Billiards & Snooker Tournament 2010

28 May 2010

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Saboo, Tengra shocked

Title contenders Amit Saboo and Farhad Tengra were among the favourites that crashed out on another dramatic day of upsets, in the All India Sohrab Gandhi Open Handicap Billiards & Naval Tata Open Handicap Snooker Tournament, organised and hosted by Elphinstone Cricket Club, VT, on Friday.

Anonymous Jayesh Salvi of Kalyan set the ball rolling for an ominous day for the seeds when he subdued Saboo of Bombay Gymkhana 2-0 to storm into the snooker pre-quarter-finals.

Likewise, CCI rookie Abhinav Kripalu came up with an impressive performance to shock Goldfilled Open runner-up Farhad Tengra of Elphinstone Cricket Club by a similar margin in the second round.

In another upset, Col. Sanchis of US Club beat Vivek Wadhwa of Bombay Gymkhana 115-86, 86-97, 101-94 in a tight first round contest.

The trend continued in billiards as favourites Siddharth Sogani of Radio Club, Deepak Khubchandani of Khar Gymkhana and Sunil Ghadge of Central Railway Mumbai Institute made premature exits.

Dark horse Aditya Agrawal of Bombay Gymkhana once again lit up a disappointing day for the fancied cueists with the tournament’s highest break of 90 that bettered his own 88, en route to a 200-167 second round win over PJ Hindu Gymkhana’s Samay Wadhwan.
 

Result

Snooker (4th Round)

Jayesh Salvi (+50, Kalyan) bt Amit Saboo (+20, Bombay Gym) 91-49, 77-34

Snooker (3rd Round)

Kartikeyan Sharma (+45, Vashi) bt Ramesh Sadarangani (+60, Matunga Gym) 111-108, 88-62

Rishabh Jain (+40, Dadar Club) bt Pawan Kohli (+50, Khar Gym) 98-89, 105-65

Snooker (2nd Round)

Abhinav Kripalu (+55, CCI) bt Farhad Tengra (+35, Elphinstone CC) 103-56, 105-97

Gaurav Prabhu (+45, MIG) bt Mehernosh Captain (+60, Elphinstone CC) 89-104, 113-79, 124-83

Snooker (1st Round)

Col. Sanchis (+60, US Club) bt Vivek Wadhwa (+50, Bombay Gym) 115-86, 86-97, 101-94

Chetan Dalal (+55, PJ Hindu Gym) bt Rajit Mehta (+55, North Indian Assn) 104-99, 107-71

Billiards (3rd Round)

Mahadeo Bhogle (+30, JVPG) bt Sachin Lokare (+70, Vashi) 200-181

Dinesh Dhumal (+70, Matunga Gym) bt Sunil Ghadge (+20, Central Rly Mumbai Inst) 200-179

Raj Khandwala (+60, CCI) bt Shailesh Rao (+70, Matunga Gym) 200-137

Billiards (2nd Round)

Clyde Affonso (+70, Catholic Gym) bt Siddharth Sogani (+30, Radio Club) 200-144

Aditya Agrawal (-50, Bombay Gym) bt Samay Wadhwan (+70, PJ Hindu Gym) 200(90)-167

Harold Sylvester (+70, Catholic Gym) bt Hemant Kotekar (+70, Chembur Gym) 200-185

Roshan Mirchandani (+50, Khar Gym) bt Keku Nicholson (+50, CCI) 200-131

Harish Mirchandani (+50, Khar Gym) bt Deepak Khubchandani (+20, Khar Gym) 200-101

Billiards (1st Round)

Nikhil Ghadge (+60, Khar Gym) bt Rajesh Rathod (+70, MbPT Reynolds) 200-137