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Asian
Championship
2011
10th English
Billiards
Kish
Island
- Iran
09
- 14 April 2011
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Final Match:
Alok
Kumar of India blanked Praput Chaithanasukan of Thailand 6-0 to win the
coveted Asian Billiards title here at the Olympic Stadium of Kish Island.
Alok thus
become the 1st player to achieve the rare feat of winning both the Billiards
and Snooker Asian title. Earlier back in 2004 in Jordan, Kumar lifted the
Asian Snooker title by defeating his compatriot Pankaj Advani in the finals.
In a best
of 11 games - 100 points format, Alok from the beginning showed great grit and
determination and on his first visit to the table compiled an immaculate break
of 93 to go ahead 1-0. Kumar was fast and furious in the following two frames
too as he completely rattled his opponent with breaks of 84 and 85 in the 2nd
and 3rd games respectively to go ahead 3-0 in just 25 minutes of play.
It was
amazing to see the man who had won the 8-ball and 9-ball National Pool title
only a week back adjusting so well in a completely different game that
requires touch play.
Inarguably the best all-round player of the country, Kumar once again showed
his versatility in the 4th game as he prevailed over his opponent with
tactical play.
The 5th
saw Kumar unfolding a vast repertoire strokes to recover from most difficult
situation and completely outwitted Praput by compiling yet another good run of
73 points to go ahead 5-0. In the 6th though Praput raised some sign of
recovery by scoring 57 points , it was too little as Kumar gave the icing on
the cake with a clinically precise 'postman's knock’ break of 76 played at the
top of the table to win 6-0.
In his
dream run Alok Kumar fought hard to brush aside challenges of 3 former World
Champions Pankaj Advani (India), Peter Gilchrist (Singapore) and Praprut
Chaithanasukan (Thailand) in the quarter final, semifinal and final
respectively.
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Semi Final Match: Alok Kumar,
the reigning National Billiards Champion of India Stormed into the Finals of
the Asian Billiards championship defeating Peter Gilchrist, a former Asian and
World Champion from Singapore. Alok Won 5-2. From the beginning Alok had a
complete stranglehold in the game and exhibiting high qulity top of the table
play went ahead 3-0. Peter came back strongly in the fourth and reduced the
the deficit by winning the 4th. However at the end though he took the 6th also
, it was not enough to stop a highly spirited alok who eventually won the
match with an unfinished break of 72 in the 7th game.
Alok earlier
defeated his Compatriot and 7 times World Champion Pankaj Advani in the
quarter Finals.
Alok will be
meeting the winner of the match between Kyaw Oo of Myanmar and Praprut C. of
Thailand in the finals to be played tomorrow.
Quarter Finals
(Best of 7 Games) |
Semi Finals
(Best of 9 Games) |
FINAL
(Best of 11 Games) |
WINNER |
|
Pankaj Advani
India |
3 |
Alok Kumar
India
102(67); 101; 100(100) 14; 102(98); 00; 100(72) |
5 |
Alok Kumar
India
101(93), 101(84), 100(85),
100(40), 101(73), 101(76) |
6 |
Alok Kumar
India |
|
Alok Kumar
India |
4 |
|
Dhruv Sitwala
India |
2 |
Peter Gilchrist
Singapore
71(62 ); 87; 00; 102(77); 34;
101(83); 13) |
2 |
|
Peter Gilchrist
Singapore |
4 |
|
Kyaw Oo
Myanmar |
4 |
Kyaw Oo
Myanmar |
4 |
Praput
Chaithanasakun
Thailand
02, 02, 06, 72, 18, 57 |
0 |
|
Soheil Vahedi
Iran |
1 |
|
Geet Sethi
India |
3 |
Praput
Chaithanasakun
Thailand |
5 |
|
Praput
Chaithanasakun
Thailand |
4 |
Frame Scores
FINAL
Semi Finals
Quarter Finals
League Stage Matches
|
GROUP A |
|
S.
# |
Player |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
MP |
MW |
GW |
GL |
GD |
AVG |
POS |
|
1 |
Peter Gilchrist
- Singapore |
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
12 |
5 |
7 |
1.75 |
1 |
|
2 |
Arman Dinarvand
- Iran |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
-12 |
-3.00 |
. |
|
3 |
Geet Sethi
- India |
1 |
3 |
|
3 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
10 |
4 |
6 |
1.50 |
2 |
|
4 |
Nay Thway Oo
- Myanmar |
2 |
3 |
1 |
|
3 |
4 |
2 |
9 |
8 |
1 |
0.25 |
. |
|
5 |
Thawat Sujaritthurakarn-
Thailand |
2 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
|
4 |
1 |
7 |
9 |
-2 |
-0.50 |
. |
|
Game
Scores
|
|
GROUP B |
|
S.
# |
Player |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
MP |
MW |
GW |
GL |
GD |
AVG |
POS |
|
1 |
Praput
Chaithanasakun - Thailand |
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
12 |
2 |
10 |
2.50 |
1 |
|
2 |
Alok Kumar - India |
2 |
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
11 |
3 |
8 |
2.00 |
2 |
|
3 |
Malek Berjawi
- Lebanon |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
-12 |
-3.00 |
. |
|
4 |
Hesam Pouyanfar
- Iran |
0 |
0 |
3 |
|
2 |
4 |
1 |
5 |
9 |
-4 |
-1.00 |
. |
|
5 |
Syawash Mozayeni
- Iran |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
|
4 |
2 |
6 |
8 |
-2 |
-0.50 |
. |
|
Game
Scores
|
|
GROUP C |
|
S.
# |
Player |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
MP |
MW |
GW |
GL |
GD |
AVG |
POS |
|
1 |
Kyaw Oo
- Myanmar |
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
12 |
3 |
9 |
2.25 |
1 |
|
2 |
Sasan Lashkari
- Iran |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
12 |
-10 |
-2.50 |
. |
|
3 |
Alan Puan Teik Chong
- Singapore |
1 |
3 |
|
0 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
7 |
6 |
1 |
0.25 |
. |
|
4 |
Dhruv Sitwala
- India |
2 |
3 |
3 |
|
3 |
4 |
3 |
11 |
3 |
8 |
2.00 |
2 |
|
5 |
Mohsin Khamis
- Qatar |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
4 |
1 |
3 |
11 |
-8 |
-2.00 |
. |
|
|
|
GROUP D |
|
S.
# |
Player |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
MP |
MW |
GW |
GL |
GD |
AVG |
POS |
|
1 |
Pankaj Advani
- India |
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
12 |
1 |
11 |
2.75 |
1 |
|
2 |
Saeid Abolesani
- Iran |
0 |
|
3 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
0.00 |
. |
|
3 |
Mohammad Berjawi - Lebanon |
0 |
0 |
|
3 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
9 |
-6 |
-1.50 |
. |
|
4 |
Hani Addoura
- Palestine |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
-12 |
-3.00 |
. |
|
5 |
Soheil Vahedi
- Iran |
1 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
4 |
3 |
10 |
3 |
7 |
1.75 |
2 |
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Game
Score
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