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Joshi, Sitwala miss out on History
 

Cue sports history just missed being made on  Sunday. Of  two players entering the finals of both billiards and snooker. The players are both close friends and sparring partners Devendra Joshi and Dhruv Sitwala. They had contested the national billiards final a couple of years ago which Joshi won.


On Monday they may have  played both the finals of the  Rosy Blue Hindu Gymkhana-Wilson Jones All India Open handicap billiards/snooker championships. But for Dhruv losing the snooker semi-final on the black ball decider against Manish Adnani Devendra, had breaks of 140, 183 and 69 while beating Nikhil Ootam 250-204 in billiards and blanked  Rohan Mirchandani in snooker.

 

Joshi said: "The handicap was a little generous to me just minus 130. I got that raised to minus 275 yet I won. I am happy that I beat Yasin Merchant in snooker." Joshi was not to play this event as it clashed with a Pune event. But he got Geet Sethi to play in his place and kept his date with a tournament which commemorates his mentor, the late Wilson Jones.


Dhruv, another Jones, protege,  got past the in-form Arun Agrawal 250-68  margin. In the snooker semi-final he was down 2-0 but made it 2-all only to  lose on the black.

 

Pradeep Vijayakar @ Mumbai

Sunday 21 December 2008

 

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