Agrawal, Altamash advance

18.12.2014

Shivam Arora

Altamash Saifi of Delhi and Aditya Agrawal of Railways registered contrasting wins to enter the knock out pre-quarter-finals of NSCI All India 9-Ball Open Pool tournament.

Saifi of Malviyanagar, overcame Hitesh Kotwani of CCI and Chetan Chabbra of Hyderabad via exciting 5-4 margins before prevailing over Faisal Khan of Railways 5-3 to qualify from Group D as the topper, while Khan finished second.

While Shivam Arora of Khar Gymkhana made it from Group F with three straight wins, Aditya Agrawal pipped Vinit Ahuja of NSCI and Sumit Devgan of Lions Sports Club, Mulund with a better aggregate to finish second in the group.

Also advancing were Siddharth Parikh of Railways and Deepak Khubchandani of Khar Gymkhana from Group E, and Laxman Rawat of Triace and Rishabh Thakkar of Khar Gymkhana from Group G.