Colourful India in Asian Championships
Indian players have confirmed all
colour medals in the ongoing Asian Billiards championship 2016 at Colombo.
The defending champion Dhruv Sitwala has entered the final of Asian
Billiards and is just a match away from securing the title that he won
last year. Dhruv reached the final defeating current world no.3 and his
compatriot Siddharth Parikh 5-3.
Siddharth was in good form and obtained initial lead of 2-1 which he
raised to 3-2 but after that Dhruv bounced back heavily and showered three
breaks of 70, 100 and 66 to win next three games in a row to secure the
match.
He will now take on another Indian player B. Bhaskar, who reached the
final defeating weighty players like 15 time world champion, Pankaj Advani
in quarter-final and former multiple time world champion, Peter Gilchrist
in semi final.
With all these performances, Indian have secured all three medals i.e.
Bronze to Siddharth Parikh and Gold, Silver to either of them.
The icing on cake is another bronze medal which is secured by Junior
player Ishpreet Chadha who reached the semi final stage of Asian under-21
and lost to Wang Yuchen of China 1-5. |