03 February 2013: Malkeet Singh stepping towards title

Malkeet Singh from Uttar Pradesh won back to back two matches in Round Robin stage and will play tomorrow last league match eyeing for winning the Junior Snooker title of Manisha National Billiards & Snooker Championship 2013 being held at Gymnasium Hall of Jiwaji University, Gwalior (Org. by Gwalior District Billiards and Snooker Association).

In the morning session match Malkeet Singh got tough fight from Nitesh Madan of Delhi but Malkeet replied on every challenge set by Nithesh. Throughout Malkeet played exceptionally well kept winning frame over frame to register 4-Nil win first Round Robin match.

Later he repeated the same story but this time against Rahul Sachdev from Maharashtra and defeated him 4-Nil. Unlike Nitesh, Rahul failed to deliver any tough challenge and had no other option rather bowing down to Singh. Before that Rahul had defeated his state-mate Vishal Vaya in the decider frame 4-3.

Tomorrow last match of Round Robin will be played between Malkeet Singh vs. Vishal Vaya; and Nitesh Madan vs. Rahul Sachdev.

In Senior Billiards category, Rafath Habib (Railways), Dugra Prasad (Railways), Ishpreet Chadha (Maharashtra) and Jaiveer Dhingra (Maharashtra) have qualified for the main round.
 

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