Top players cruise in Kolkata Open National Snooker
Kolkata boy and Arjuna Awardee Sourav Kothari was stretched to six games before finally prevailing over the reigning West Bengal State Champion BenayAgarwal.
Playing against Dharminder Lilly, Delhi cueist LaxmanRawat quickly won the first three games before the current World Champion (Masters) staged a comeback with a 08-62 win, but could not sustain the momentum,losing 49-47 to hand a 4-1 win to Rawat.
PankajAdvani and Aditya Mehta won their matches with identical scores of 4-0 over SreevardharPoddar and BenayAgarwal respectively. Aditya Mehta, the country’s only professional snooker player and the current National Snooker Champion, notched up the day’s biggest break of 102 in the third game.
The current India No. 2 in billiards, Sidharth Parikh, won a see-saw battle with SandeepGulati that went the full distance of seven games.
Gulati won the first two games even as Parikh drew level in the next two. Gulati and Parikh won the next two games respectively. It was only in the last game that Parikh managed to pull ahead 59-17, to seal the tie.
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