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India confirmed
the Asian snooker title as Aditya & Pankaj
both reached into final
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Aditya made his
third appearance in the Asian Snooker final today in Doha where
eight Days long Asian Snooker Championship reached final day.
Aditya started
the Semi Final session confidently though despite playing against
current World Snooker and Asian Under-21 Snooker champion Hossein
Vafaei from Iran. Quickly Aditya obtained 2-0 lead over Hossein as
he was not interested to give any loose string to Hossein, third
frame went much tighter but at the stage where it was suppose to go
in favour of Aditya, last black ball wobbled in the jaws and Hossein
got his first frame.
Soon Hossein
took next two more to put Aditya one frame down. Those were the only
frames, Hossein grabbed as Aditya broke with 75 to level the match
3-all. Already shifted the gear, Aditya thereafter kept wrapping
frame after frame and sealed the match 6-3 leaving no option for
Hossein.
Where Aditya
had already made his presence into final, Pankaj, on next table, was
on the job for confirming title for India and he did the same
despite having some challenges in between.
Pankaj started
with 1-1 against Noppon Saengkham from Thailand and went down 1-2
where Noppon was playing exceptionally well. Noppon controlled the
fourth frame too and had a good start to gain the lead but he missed
on 47 and Pankaj without wasting time sealed the frame with a
clearance of 49 points to level it at 2-all. Again Noppon troubled
Pankaj by winning the next but Pankaj replied him in 6th
frame with a 60+ break to come at par. Both the cueists took
alternate frames to reach at a score of 5-4 in favour of Pankaj.
In 10th
frame, Pankaj shown his class for which he is best known. Noppon
took initial lead of 49 points and in the single chance that Pankaj
got, he chased brilliantly noppon’s score but on 43 points he landed
for a tricky green to pot which he did and went misplaced for brown
as his cue ball landed near the cushion behind brown. Leaving the
option to play safe, he brilliantly potted the brown in top pocket
and placed correctly for blue to seal the match and confirmed title
for India.
Final is
between Aditya Mehta and Pankaj Advani at 4:30 PM Qatar Time.
New Delhi ::
28 April 2012
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