1st Asian Billiards Sport 2016

24 September - 02 October 2016 :: Al Fujairah - UAE

 

REPORT :: 26 September 2016

 

Manan, Ishpreet crashes out from the Men’s Snooker at Asian Billiards Sports 2016
 

Former World No.3 Manan Chandra and current Asian Junior No.3 Ishpreet Chadha made an exit from the Men’s Snooker discipline of Asian Billiards Sports 2016, which is being played at Al-Fujairah, UAE.
 

Manan Chandra had won the morning session match against Khalid Fakhouri of Jordan 4-1, but in the pre-quarter finals tonight, he couldn’t save the decider against Arman Dinarvand of Iran and lost 3-4.

Manan was down 3 frames but he made an outstanding recovery to come at par. In fact he was leading 51-42 in the decider with one red on table, but couldn’t hold till the end and lost the deciding frame 51-60.

 

Although there are no space of excuses in sports, but it is worth mentioning that Manan's cue lost during air-travel to Al-Fujairah. He played with a borrowed cue in the competition and facing all these odds, he performed, is itself commendable. It is easily understandable, how difficult to adjust with a gazette with which a player is not used to.


The other Indian player Ishpreet Chadha failed to open his account in the competition and lost his first match against Khalid Kamali of UAE 2-4.

With this the Indian challenge in Men Snooker (Individual) discipline ends. They both will now play together in the doubles snooker event, which will start on 29th September.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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