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Lucknow :: 24 Feb 2014
Sitwala regained his
form in National Billiards
Former World No.2, Dhruv Sitwala of PSPB, returned to his great form and
entered into Top-8 of Indian Billiards ranking after a gap of 2 years. He
had a struggling phase during last two Nationals but this time despite
having a very tough opponent in the Last-16, he demonstrated outstanding
performance and made good breaks in all three games to knockout former
World Champion Ashok Shandilya of Railways in the Manisha National
Billiards Championship 2014 here at Lucknow.
A Chance was there for Shandilya to clinch second game in his favour but
he failed by mere 2 points and Dhruv capitalized to gain 2-Nil Lead over
Shandilya. In third game also Dhruv produced a break of 74 points to step
in Quarters.
Today two youngsters also performed exceptionally well and entered into
quarter finals. Where Malkeet Singh of Railway spend some extra time on
table to outplay I.H. Manudev 3-2, Jaiveer Dhingra of Maharashtra gave no
chance to veteran Devendra Joshi and knocked him out in straight set of
games 3-0.
After the match Jaiveer paid regards to Joshi by obtaining his blessings,
which remained 'Moment of the Day'.
Defending champion Alok Kumar of PSPB also registered thrilling win
against Aditya Agarwal of Railway at a cost of 1 game that Aditya won by
scoring a convincing break of 117 points.
Senior Snooker qualifying rounds also started today where more than 300
players are participating for 11 slots in the main draw which will start
from 1st March.
Quarter final
matches of Senior Billiards will start at 1400 Hours on 25 February 2014.
The line up is:
Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB)
v/s.
Jaiveer Dhingra (Maharashtra)
Sourav Kothari (PSPB)
v/s.
Brijesh Damani (PSPB)
Alok Kumar (PSPB)
v/s.
Malkeet Singh (Railways)
Rupesh Shah (PSPB)
v/s.
B. Bhaskar (Karnataka)
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Results and Other Details
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News Desk
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