10th Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship 2009 PYC Club - Pune 11-19 April 2009

Daily Reports

11.04.2009

Delhi youngster Pushpinder shocks second seed Thanawat on Opening Day

Ms. Reshma Rewale of Rewale Group inagurated the event

Pushpinder Singh (IND), Mansoor Mogaddam (Referee from Iran), Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon (Thailand)

Delhi youngster Pushpinder Singh pulled up the sensational upset To own number two seed Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon of Thailand by 3-2 in an opening round league match of the Rewale Group Asian Under 21Snooker Championship At the PYC (Hindu) Gymkhana here today.

In another interesting match of the day China’s Cao Yupeng was stretched to the full distance by Mahanaa Nasser KALObaidili of Qatar before going down to him 60-30,67-23, 326-66, 20-64, and 55-13; The top Chinese seed Li Yuan played a safe game to conquer local wild cart entrant Adiitya Deshpande, and Anda Zhang another Chinese cueist got the better of  Ali Nasser of Qatar, by 3-nil margin to give the visitors a rousing start in this 10th edition of the championship being played on a league-cum-knock out basis.

The Indian spearhead Shahbaz Khan, made short work of  his Saudi Arabian challenger Albaqshi Nidhal by registering a 3-0.

Down in the first frame the Delhi youngster Pushpinder won the next two frame at a trot only to see his rival level up the score. He however maintained his cool and gave no chance to Thanawat to wrap up the final frame and the match 49-56, 57-51,60-53, 51-59 and 54-28.

Ms Reshma Rewale, director of Rewale Group of Industries, sponsors of the meet, inaugurated the  championship. Mr. Shashi Vaidya, president PYC (Hindu) Gymkhana welcomed and Mr Rajan Khivansara, vice president of Billiards & Snookers Federation of Indian, presided over the function.

Ms. Reshma Rewale of Rewale Group lightening the Inauguration Lamp