Chennai: Alok Kumar was on fire as he posted two consecutive wins without losing a single frame in the National Masters snooker championship here on Thursday. Alok got past V.S. Prabhu and later defeated Gajendran 3-0.
Also winning two matches was Karnataka’s Manudev. Tamil Nadu’s S.H. Kamaraj, S.A. Saleem, Siddharth Rao, and West Bengal’s Rajesh Tulshian too posted victories even as former Asian Games gold medallist Rafath Habib too got off to a winning start.
The results:
League: Group H: Alok Kumar (PSPB) bt V.S. Prabhu (TN) 3-0; bt Gajendran (TN) 3-0; Manu Dev (Kar) bt Nelson (TN) 3-0; bt Sajiv Mathews 3-0; S.H. Kamaraj (TN) bt M. Baskaran (TN) 3-1; H. Venkatesh (TN) bt K. Natrajan (TN) 3-0; Rajesh Tulshian (WB) bt V.S. Prabhu (TN) 3-1; M.C. Manoj (TN) bt P. Vijaykumar (TN) 3-0; V.S. Prabhu (TN) bt Nadeem Aziz (Kar) 3-2; V. Anand (Kar) bt E. Sivakumar (TN) 3-1; Rajesh Tulshian (WB) bt Gajendran (TN) 3-2; Dhruv Agarwal (WB) bt Sharat Kumar (Del) 3-2.
Rafath Habib (RSPB) bt Sivakumar (TN) 3-0; L. Nagaraj (TN) bt M. Baskaran (TN) 3-2; R.S. Krishnan (TN) bt K. Natarajan (TN) 3-0; Sharat Kumar (Del) bt George Selvakumar (TN) 3-1; M.C. Manoj (TN) bt Bharath (TN) 3-0; Siddharth Rao (TN) bt E. Sivakumar (TN) 3-0; Easwara Murthy (TN) bt Subramaniam (Mah) 3-2; S. Surendran (TN) bt Nelson (TN) 3-1; Gajendran (TN) bt Nadeem Aziz (Kar) 3-0; Joy Mehra (Pun) bt Mohamed Arshad (Ker) 3-2; S.A. Saleem (TN) bt Mohamed Arshad (Ker) 3-1; Prem Prakash (TN) bt George Selvakumar (TN) 3-0; Shyam Jagtiani (WB) bt P. Vijaykumar (TN) 3-2.