Kolkata :: 4 January 2015
Ishpreet-Krishna set
stage for Sub-Junior billiards final
Ishpreet Chadha of Maharashtra in action
The top seed, Ishpreet Chadha of Maharashtra, reached the final of Sub-Junior Billiards discipline of nationals. Today in BRC-Gloster National Billiards and Snooker Championship here at Bengal
Rowing Club, Kolkata, he defeated Hritik Jain of Maharashtra by 79 points
to step into final.
In the semi final match, Ishpreet was trailing by nearly 40 points against
Hritik Jain of Madhya Pradesh but set himself for a high break and
produced 96 points break to recover and maintain decent lead.
However, Hritik once againt tried to overcome the pressure and brought
down his trail to 30 points but Ishpreet did not give him much chances and
sealed the one hour duration match by 79 points (296-271).
Ishpreet will meet Tamil Nadu player, S. Shrikrishna, who defeated Suraj
Rathi of Maharashtra 334-198 to confirm his berth for the final. Suraj had
chances at few occasions, but he failed to get into right position and
every time he missed, Shrikrishna utilized the chance and kept increasing
his lead in gradual manner to enter in the final.
The final will be played tomorrow (5th January) at 3:00 PM.
S.
Shrikrishna of Tamil Nadu
in action
Earlier today, Hritik Jain had easy win in his last-16 and quarter-final
matches. He defeated Kewal Mahadeshwar of Maharashtra 371-61 (in Last-16)
and Johnson Narsidani of Gujarat 166-78 (in quarter finals).
Identically, Shrikrishna also won his earlier matches by good victory
margin. In last-16, he defeated Rohit Yadav of Assam 369-100 and Kreishh
Gurbaxani (Maharahstra) 394-189 in quarter finals.
The last-16 match between Johnson Narsidani and Kaavya Bharath was very
close where Johnson registered 7 points win in one hour match.
Sub-Junior Snooker
The prelim round of Sub-Junior Snooker matches also started today. There
was no major upset but the match between Rishabh Gulati (Delhi) and Nikesh
Ranjan (Bihar) falls into decider that Rishabh won on pink ball game.
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Results and Other Details
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