Match
1: The
first match on day two was between B. Bhaskar (India) and Kyaw Oo (Myanmar),
which Bhaskar lost by 479 points. Till the 9th visit both the cueists were
level smashing two century breaks each, but in the 12th visit with a 220
Kyaw Oo stepped ahead and sealed the match with a break of 103 in the 19th
visit.
Match 2: Billiards
maestro from India, Geet Sethi refreshed today’s morning session with his
two breaks of 547 and 501 (unfinished) in the 14th and 29th visits before
winning by a victory margin of 1701 points against the Korean challenge. Tae
Hoon Jung could not do anything except watching Geet playing top-table
postman’s knock. Geet also scored 190 and 198 in the 15th and 19th visits
respectively.
Match 3: In
a very close match Ashok Shandilya (India) managed to defeat Nay Thway Oo (MYN)
by only 28 points. In the 3rd and 4th visit, Ashok managed to score breaks
of 90 and 115 respectively, which were countered by Nay scoring 66 and 71.
In the 20th visit, Nay sitting in the driver’s seat moved ahead with a break
of 202. Trailing Ashok waited for right opportunity and in the 38th visit
managed 193 followed by 43 in the 46th visit to inch ahead of Nay. With
three wins he has already secured his place for the knockout stage.
Match 4:Thrilled
with last night’s victory in India vs. Rest of World, Pankaj carried his
style in the match against Aidan Murray (Ireland). Aidan failed to challenge
Pankaj’s 119, 266 and 146 in the 8th, 9th and 24th visits and Pankaj wins by
a margin of 577 points.
Match 5:A
medley of 700+ remains ON for Mike Russell as in third consecutive match, he
smashed a 700+ break. Playing Devendra Joshi (India), Mike instantly reached
top-table in his 2nd visit to score 110 followed with 753 in the 4th.
Already trailing by 850 odd points, Joshi managed to get a 198 break in the
12th visit. Mike also smashed 177, 243 and 165 in the 8th, 12th and 14th
visits.
Match 6:Rupesh
had nothing to prove against Abdul Omar (Sri Lanka) and he played freely
scoring multiple century breaks including a break of 334, in the 7th visit.
Abdul scored 294 with 52 in the 14th visit before losing by 1288 points.
Match 7:In
a thrilling match, Dhruv Sitwala upset former world champion from Singapore
Peter Gilchirst. Dhruv settled himself down with two meager breaks of 61 and
64 initially and then dominated the match with 331 and 198 in the 5th and
6th visits. This was countered by Peter by smashing 408 in next visit.
Smashing 162 in the 9th visit, Dhruv got a lead which was again countered by
Peter with 257 but that was not sufficient as Dhruv finished the match in
the 10th visit scoring 146 unfinished.
Match 8:The
last match of morning session was easy sailing for Gary Oliver as he took on
Min Hu Baek of Korea. Gary scored a few 50+ breaks to defeat the Korean by
324 points.
Session
2
Match
1: Billy
Bousfield got a comparatively easy match compared to the last two he lost,
scoring decent below century breaks to register his win over Min Hu Baek of
Korea with a total of 70 visits to the table. Min scored 488.
Match 2:After
defeating Peter in the first session, Dhruv was in full form and carried on
in a similar vein in the second session against New Zealand’s Gary Oliver,
scoring back-to-back breaks of 287 and 344 in the 24th and 25th visit. Gary
managed one century break in his 12th visit. Winning all matches in the
league stage, Dhruv sailed into the knockout.
Match 3:The
third match of the session was again one sided, as Rupesh Shah defeated
Korean Chul Ho Hwang with a winning margin of 1136 points. The 13th visit
saw a break of 306 by Rupesh and one in the last 238.
Match 4:Mike
is not interested in anything less than 500, which was reflected on his face
when he missed four breaks on 105, 139, 308 and 109. Finally in the 39th
visit playing restlessly he smashed 622 to get some satisfaction from his
own performance. Finally he defeated Abdul Omar by 1274 points.
Match 5: After
losing two matches, Phil Mumford managed to register his win over Irishman
Aidan Murray with a margin of 184 points. His 57 visits had no century
break.
Match 6: Reigning
world champion (time format) Pankaj Advani took his own countryman Ashok
Shandilya on challenge, who earlier had won all three matches and was
looking to grab the top slot in Group A. But Pankaj was not interested in
giving anyone that place and defeated Ashok by 604 points. Pankaj had 6
century breaks and only one double century break in the 27th visit. Ashok
managed to score 138 and 143 in the 26th and 29th visit.
Match 7: Alok
Kumar of India got easy sailing against Tae Hoon Jung (Korea) and registered
a win by 1126 points.
Match 8: Geet
Sethi of India continued his winning streak, defeating B. Bhaskar by 955
points. Geet playing consistently scored big breaks in almost every visit
with 264 in the 9th and 309 in the 14th visit. Bhaskar managed only 150 in
the 32nd visit.
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