Mumbai: Ishpreet Singh Chadha of Mumbai came out all guns blazing against Asutosh Padhy and breezed away with a 4-0 in the CCI All India Open Snooker championship, at the CCI’s Sir Wilson Jones Billiards room, tables here on Saturday. The Chadha fired in three breaks to sign off a 63-33, 69-14, 106-19 101-8 to move ahead in the championship.
Top-ranked Pankaj Advani of ONGC had a routine day in office as he strolled past India’s number two ranked woman cueist Arantxa Sanchis of Pune with a 4-0 margin. Pankaj, once again showed his class and compiled another century effort of 112 and two runs of 54 and 68 to post a 102-15, 89-4, 73-25 and 112-12.
Defending champion Brijesh Damani of Indian Oil maintained his impressive run as he got the better of Hasan Badami by a facile 4-1 margin. The Kolkata-based Damani played steadily and did not hit the high notes, but grabbed every opportunity to roll in some small tidy efforts which proved sufficient for him to comfortably cross the finish line, easing to 65-39, 44-74, 68-25, 96-3 and 66-10 success.
Results
Brijesh Damani (Indian Oil) bt Hasan Badami (Mum) 4-1 (65-39, 44-74(73), 68-25, 96-3, 66-10);
Mukund Bharadia (Mum) bt Nabil Lakdawala (Mum) 4-0 (68-55, 75-51, 61-1, 68-8); S Dilip Kumar (Rlys) bt Anand Raghuvanshi (Mum) 4-2 (80-53, 15-62, 69-43, 48-49, 72-37, 70-42); R Girish (Rlys) bt Alok Kumar (ONGC) 4-2 (82-71, 72-37, 44-60, 72-4, 18-58, 71-12); Rupesh Shah (Guj) bt Mohd Hussain Khan (Rlys) 4-3 (72-34, 65-66, 70-50, 72(48)-8, 54-69, 25-68, 61-23); Sumit Talwar (C’garh) bt Siddharth Parikh (Rlys) 4-1 (75-57, 27-59, 87-29, 87(61)-37, 66-8); Malkeet Singh (Rlys) bt Kreishh Gurbaxani (Mum) 4-3 (63(59)-21, 108(108)-0, 7-77(53), 27-80, 45-56, 60-59, 66-43); Pankaj Advani (ONGC) bt Arantxa Sanchis (Pu) 4-0 (102-15, 89-(54)-4, 73(68)-25, 112(112)-12); Anurag Giri (MP) bt Dhruv Sitwala (Mum) 4-3 (25-77(40), 76-19, 81-31, 54-56, 71-40, 35-60, 57-32); Laxman Rawat (Indian Oil) bt Dhvaj Haria (ONGC) 4-3 (103(95)-8, 25-63, 83(68)-13, 69-54, 60-38); Brijesh Damani (Indian Oil) bt Devendra Joshi (BPCL) 4-0 (53-46, 87(47)-30, 64-29, 74-26).