Mixed day for India in Cue Sports discipline in Asian Games 2010

English Billiards (Individual), Team Snooker (Men & Women) and 8Ball Pool (Men) were the events played today. Pankaj Advani, Alok Kumar, Sumit Talwar and team comprises of Yasin Merchant, Brijesh Damani and Aditya Mehta won their matches; disappointment as Geet Sethi lost his first Pre-Quarter Final match to Nay Thway Oo of Myanmar 1-3. Ladies Indian Team also won the prelim match but lost to Taipei in Quarter Final 1-3.

Results (13.11.2010)

English Billiards:

Pre-Quarter Finals

Pankaj Advani beat Ricky Yang (Indonesia) :: 3-0 (101-27, 102-25, 100-26)

Geet Sethi lost to Nay Thway Oo (Myanmar) :: 1-3 (53-100, 87-100, 101-50, 79-100)

Quarter Final

Pankaj Advani beat Praput C. (Thailand) :: 3-2 (100-00, 101-45, 29-101, 00-101, 102-58)

Snooker Team (Men)

Pre-Quarter Finals:

India (Yasin Merchant, Aditya Mehta, Brijesh Damani) Beat Afghanistan (Saleh Mohammed) :: 3-2 (46-51, 68-16, 62-00, 36-82, 80-00)

8Ball Pool (Men)

Prelim Round

Alok Kumar beat Fiquiri Bahauddin (Afghanistan) :: 7-1

Sumit Talwar beat Berjaoui Mazen (Lebanon) :: 7-5

Round of 32

Alok Kumar beat Efren Reyes (Philippines) :: 7-3

Sumit Talwar beat Roberto Gomez Jr. (Philippines) :: 7-5

6-Red Snooker Team (Women)

Prelim Round:

India (Anuja Chandra, Chitra Magimairaj, Vidya Pillai) Beat Singapore (Shu Wah Hoe, Zeet Huey Charlene Chai) :: 3-0 (35-02, 19-07, 39-27)

Quarter finals:

India (Anuja Chandra, Chitra Magimairaj, Vidya Pillai) Lost to Taipei (Hui Shan Lai, Shin Mei Liu, Ya Ting Chan) :: 1-3 (10-38, 36-21, 29-30, 08-50)