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Lucknow :: 22 Feb 2014
Rupesh and Dhruv faced
shock defeat on the day of upsets
On the day of upsets in the Manisha Billiards and Snooker nationals being
played here at Lucknow, the last session had seen biggest upset of the day
where twice World Champion Rupesh Shah lost to fancied I.V. Rajeev of
Andhra Pradesh in Senior Men's Billiards. Rajeev defeated him 3-1.
Rupesh had chances to recover and level the match in second game but
failed and went down 2 games. However, Rupesh recovered in the next game
and brought down the lead but couldn't save the 4th game and lost.
Earlier the day started where Karnataka's IH Manudev hogged the limelight
today as he defeated former world No.2, Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB) by 3-1.
Batter known as one the key players in snooker, Manudev today played
phenomenal game of billiards against Dhruv. Without giving many chances,
Manudev kept scoring slow but steady to pocket first two games. However,
Dhruv managed to recover by wining third game and narrowed the deficit,
Manudev conquered the next game again and sealed the match 3-1 in his
favour.
Dhruv regained his form in his second match of the day and defeated young
lad from Odisha, Ashutosh Padhy in the straight set of games 3-0. He also
scored an unfinished 101 points break in second game.
A sea-saw battle in the decider game of match between Manish Jain of West
Bengal and Durga Prasad of Railways ended in the favour of Prasad where he
registered an important win by mere two points.
Both the players were under pressure and gave multiple chances to each
other. The most important chance Manish got when Durga missed on 96 and
Manish started from 67. Playing each shot very precisely, Manish went
closer and when it was appearing clear win for him, he went out of
position on 98 leaving another dicey chance for Durga. After picking 2
more points Manish again got back to the table but had a dry shot leaving
another difficult position for Durga which he attempted for cannon but got
lucky white in-off to seal the match 3-2.
On the other table, Railway’s Kamal Chawala had a straight game win
against Deepinder Singh of Punjab3-0, while Jaiveer Dhingra of PSPB also
had a 3-0 win against Yash Rungta of Maharashtra.
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