Bhaskar shocks world billiards champion Advani

In a dramatic end, B. Bhaskar of India won the 8th game of his quarter-final match by one point to edge out multiple time world champion Pankaj Advani from the Asian Billiards championship 2016 at Colombo.

This was an interesting match to watch that swung like a pendulum till seventh game where both had won alternate games and the eighth game that was about to go in favour of Advani, he missed it on 99 and Bhaskar did the justice by scoring the match point and caused biggest upset of the competition. Bhaskar will now take another world champion Peter Gilchrist in the semis.

The next semi will be played between two Indian players Dhruv Sitwala and Siddharth Parikh. Dhruv registered 5-2 win over Marlando Sihombing of Indonesia and Siddharth Parikh knocked out his compatriot Sourav Kothari 5-2.


Ishpreet confirms medal for India in Junior Snooker



In Juniors category, Ishpreet Chadha has confirmed medal for India by reaching in the semi final round of Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship which is being played at Colombo. In addition to this, he also crafted the highest break (130 points) earlier today in pre-quarter finals.

Today Ishpreet knocked out Kok Leong Lim of Malaysia in pre-quarters and after that pulled the decider frame from Ka Wai Cheung of Hong Kong to win 5-4 to reach in semis where he will now take on Wang Yuchen of China.

The other junior player Ashutosh Padhy lost to Yuan Sijun 1-4 in pre-quarter stage and out from the competition.