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Lucknow :: 17 Feb 2014
Ashutosh Padhy wins
National Sub-Junior Billiards title
Ashutosh Padhy
- Odisha
Odisha’s Ashutosh Padhy won the sub-junior billiards title, defeating
Arjun Mehta of Karnataka by a good margin here at the National Billiards
and Snooker Championship 2014.
The State Bank of India powers the event being organized by the Uttar
Pradesh Billiards and Snooker Association at Lucknow.
Young Padhy, who scored a thrilling 251-203 win against ML Laxman also of
Karnataka in the semi-final earlier in the day, showed no mercy to Mehta
while crushing him by 251-121 during the 60-minutes final. He had a break
of 49 followed by another break of 59 during the play that helped him to retain decent lead throughout the
match.
"It was like a dream come true for me," Ashutosh said after his win. "In
the final, I didn’t want my rival even to think about a comeback once I
took a handsome lead," he added.
Though Mehta lost in the final, he had the honour of outplaying the
defending champion Ishpreet S. Chadha of Maharashtra in other semi-final
186-168.
In Sub-Junior snooker, 2 out of 3 Uttar Pradesh lads entered into semi
finals. Unfortunately, Mark Manenzes, though he fought hard, had to be
content by being in the top 8 only as he went down to Ashutosh Padhy 2-1.
The other two, Shobit Chandra and Mandeep Singh, both students of Lucknow
Cue Sports Academy, stormed into the semi finals. This is the first time
since sub juniors began that 2 players from U.P. have reached the semis.
The other semi finalists are Ashutosh Padhy of Odisha and Johnson
Narsidani of Gujarat.
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News Desk
Cue Sports India
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