02 February 2013: Rahul and Vishal entered into top 4 via qualifications

Outstanding performance been given by Maharashtra players Vishal Vaya and Rahul Sachdev in Junior Snooker category of Manisha National Billiards & Snooker Championship 2013 being held at Gymnasium Hall of Jiwaji University, Gwalior (Org. by Gwalior District Billiards and Snooker Association) where both of them reached into Top 4 Round Robin after qualifying from qualification round and then knockout of Last 64 Main stage.

Vishal took on Junior Billiard champion Dhvaj Haria in Quarter final match. First frame went long where both the players struggled to win that but in the last Vishal managed to pocket the frame on black ball game. In the subsequent frames, Vishal played much controlled shot and succeeded to knockout Dhvaj 3-Nil. Vishal’s state-mate Rahul Sachdev also joined him into Top 4. He defeated Nitin Sharma from Chandigarh 3-1.

Malkeet Singh from UP defeated his state-mate Mark Menezes 3-NIL. Mark had few chances but failed to capitalize them and lost.

In another marathon match Nitesh Madan from Delhi also confirmed his berth into Top 4 of Junior Snooker. He knocked out Ishpreet Chadha (Maharashtra) in the decider frame.

After winning first frame Nitesh went down to two frames and was at a scare of losing the match but perfectly on time he managed to pull the fourth frame and forced Ishpreet to play the decider. The decider had also seen some good safe-shots from both the players and finally Nitesh closed the proceedings and stepped into top 4 defeating Ishpreet 66-30, 38-54, 22-85, 52-32, 68-39.

Earlier today in Last 16 round match between Nitin Sharma of Chandigarh against Ashutosh Padhy (Orissa) went to the decider frame and had a nail biting finish where Nitin just defeated Ashutosh by a mere two points on black ball game.

Both the players from Mizoram, Lalsangzela and Zothan Tlunga got out in Last 16 stage. Lalsangzela lost to Vishal Vaya (Maharashtra) in the decider frame whereas Mark Menezes (UP) knocked out Zothan Tlunga in straight set of frames 3-NIL.

Today the Qualifying round of Senior Billiards has also begun where 47 players are taking part for 4 slots available in main round.