Whistling Properties Asian Qualifying National Camp 2011

Snooker & English Billiards

28 February - 07 March 2010 @ Sports Club, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

 

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The third day of Whistling Properties Asian Qualifying National Camp 2011 Organized jointly by Gujarat State Billiards Association and Sports Club of Gujarat, Aditya Mehta put Pankaj Advani on dart and defeated him 4 frames to 1. The initial frame, Aditya missed on a score of 12, which Pankaj utilized and smashed a break of 62 to won the frame but then onwards, Aditya capitalized and by winning next four frames in a row demonstrating superb cueball control and outplayed the national champion. His all four winning frames had 50+ breaks.

 

In the second match of morning session, Kamal Chawla of Railways beat National runner up, Lucky Vatnani. The same story repeated here too. Winning first frame on with a close margin, Lucky could not do anything big in the remaining frames and bowed down to Kamal 1-4.

 

Bad phase continued for Manan on third day also, as today he could not even won a single frame and lost to Alok NIL-4. This was his consecutively fifth loss in a row.

 

In the evening match Lucky Vatnani dominated Aditya Mehta since the beginning and with the breaks 80 and 78 in second and third frames he took instant lead of 3-0 over Aditya. Though Aditya tried to comeback by winning fourth frame but that was not enough as Lucky sealed the match 4-1 by winning fifth match comfortably.

 

On other table, Pankaj saved himself from giving an upset against Kamal Chawla. Kamal while playing in terrific form, capitalized first two frames. However, Pankaj reduced this deficit by winning the third frame, a counter by Kamal put Pankaj again in pressure. Fifth frame remains turning point of the match where Pankaj gave a chance to Kamal on 44 points. Kamal in a hurry to make it make an upset, missed a simple centre pocket pink, which eventually cost him the match loss. From there Pankaj not only won the frame, but saved the match also winning next two frames.

 

Finally the former World No.3 Manan Chandra managed to score first win of the camp after five continuous loss. In the late evening match, he beat I.H. Manudev in decider frame 4-3. Down 1-3 Manan kept his cool and registered a much awaited win.