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Lucknow :: 25 Feb 2014
Alok marched into the
semi-finals
Defending champion Alok Kumar of PSPB marched into the semi-finals of the
senior men billiards of the Manish National Billiards & Snooker
Championship 2014 Nationals, defeating Malkeet Singh of Railways 4-Nil
here at Lucknow.
Sourav Kothari, Dhruv Sitwala and B Bhaskar also joined him in last four
stage. Where Sourav and Dhruv scored similar as Alok's score, Bhaskar had
to fight hard against Rupesh Shah to beat him in decider game.
Former Asian champion in both disciplines, billiards and snooker, Alok who
hails from Punjab, proved too superior to local cueist Malkeet, who never
looked in command against the experienced campaigner. Malkeet though tried
to catch up with Alok in the first and the third games, it was Alok at the
end with 150-119, 152-37, 150-110, 151-58 win.
Sourav Kothari was also very confident against Brijesh Damani while
scripting 152-89, 150-32, 151-82, 150-23 win, where as 2010 world
professional billiards runners-up Dhruv of PSPB also had no difficulty to
brush aside young Jaiveer Dhingra of Maharshtra 150-9, 150-55, 151-05,
150-43.
But the day’s lengthiest match was between B Bhasker of Karnataka and
Rupesh Shah of PSPB. In the best of seven games, the two got locked in 3-3
draw but after losing the sixth game by 82-150, no one had expected
Bhasker to come up with scintillating performance in the decider. Playing
cautiously, he potted the ball with elegance and won the game 150-21.
Semi final
matches of Senior Billiards will start at 1000 Hours on 25 February 2014
and the final will take place at 1800 hours.
Semi Final line up is:
Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB)
v/s.
Sourav Kothari (PSPB)
Alok Kumar (PSPB)
v/s.
B. Bhaskar (Karnataka)
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Results and Other Details
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News Desk
Cue Sports India
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