05 February 2013:
Manan back into Billiards
Manan Chandra (PSPB)
who represents Bharat Petroleum has returned to the game of
Billiards and significantly defeated India No.6 Siddharth
Parikh of Railways 3-1 in the game of Billiards in Manisha
National Billiards & Snooker Championship 2013 being held at
Gymnasium Hall of Jiwaji University, Gwalior (Org. by Gwalior
District Billiards and Snooker Association). Manan is well
known for his performances in the field of snooker and pool.
He played the last National Billiards championship in the year
2006 (Chennai).
Today in his
match against Siddharth and won first two games comfortably
scoring 101-31 and 101-78. Siddharth attempted a comeback and
managed to win the next game 100-21 but in the fourth game
Manan did not give much chance to India No.6 and sealed the
match 3-1 by winning the game 100-32. Though Manan lost one
match yesterday while playing against Simachalam (AP) but won
the next against Gunjan Patel from Gujarat.
With this loss,
Siddharth has already put himself under difficult situation
whether to qualify from the group for knock out stage as
yesterday he had also lost against Ishpreet Chadha from
Maharashtra. In the points tally so far, Simachalam is leading
in the group with +6 points followed by Manan +2 points.
Alok Kumar (PSPB)
also suffered a shock defeat by the hands of Aditya Agarwal
representing Railways. The match went till the decider frame
where Aditya scored a break of 94 points to register match
win. Before that the entire match swung either side where both
the players kept winning alternate games or landed for the
decider.
Player from Jammu
& Kashmir, Umar Humanyun also registered his first win in this
national by defeating local player Rahul Agarwal (MP) 3-1.
Prior to this he lost initial two match V. Subramanian (MH)
and Mahesh Jagdale (MH).
In the last night
match, Local player Rajneesh Bansal (MP) gave a tough fight to
Aditya Agarwal and pulled him to play the decider where in the
last moments luck did not favoured him and he lost 2-3 to
Aditya.
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