Nay Thway Oo managed to step in knockout

03 April 2013

Nay Thway Oo from Myanmar stepped into the knockout Quarter Finals of ONGC 12th Asian Billiards championship being held in Indore Tennis Club, Indore, Madhya Pradesh in India.

Today in the match to qualify despite having lead of 3 games to 1 against India's Dhvaj Haria, Nay Thway Oo faced threat of losing when Dhvaj put in all efforts and pulled him into decider game.

After taking initial two games, Dhvaj scored a break of 92 points in third to narrow the deficit but Nay replied with a century break to maintain the lead. After that, Dhvaj fought extremely well and clinched the fifth game by mere 4 points and then in next game produced a break of 74 to level the match. His all efforts went in vain when in the decider game Nay Thway Oo produced a break of 71 points to close the doors for Dhvaj.

On the other side, B. Bhaskar from India won his match against Fan Kian Sang from Singapore 4-1. Bhaskar started well in the first game producing a break of 86 points but the next game Fan played a much controlled game and to level 1-1.

Knowing the importance of this match, Bhaskar did not give any loose string and produced back to back two breaks of 91 and 100 points to raise the lead by 3-1. By that time Fan left with nothing to do and lost the last game too against Bhaskar.

In Under-21 Snooker event, Rahul Sachdev remained unlucky and lost the decider frame. This is his second consecutive defeat in the championship.

Rahul played against player from Hongkong, Wan Nansen Sin Man and from 0-2 down, Rahul fought well and leveled the match 2-all. Wan claimed the fifth frame but again Rahul proved his skills and leveled 3-all. In the decider Wan bettered him over Rahul and walked away with match win.

The shocking upset was of former Under-21 World Champion, Noppon Saengkham, who lost to Lu Ning of China 2-4. Though Noppon produced an 83 points break in third frame, but Lu Ning controlled throughout the match and produced a century break of 106 points to shatter Noppon.

Hamza Akbar from Pakistan played his first match today and faced a defeat against Ko Htet of Myanmar 2-4. Though he bettered him in the evening session and defeated India's Malkeet Singh 4-1. During the journey he produced back to back breaks of 78 and 96 points to seal the match.