Akshay Gohad 6Reds Snooker Challenge 2015 :: Pune

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06.06.2015 :: Mangat Shocks Devendra Joshi, Sanchez topples Nichani

It was a day of shocks as two international stars Devendra Joshi and Vijay Nichani were toppled at the First ever Akshay Gohad Six Red Snooker championships which will be hosted jointly by the PYC Hindu Gymkhana here today.

New Mumbai based Karan Mangat out potted former Asian Champion Devndra Joshi 4-1(01-32, 32-13, 35-22, 33-25, 37-19), while lone woman player in the draw former national champion Aranxta Sanchez shocked former India no.3 player Vijat Nichani of Tamil Nadu 4-5 in a close encounter Nichani led 3-1 before the Pune girl comeback to level scores at 3-3 and win the last frame 31-16 to leave the spectators shell shocked and make it to the third round.

Following are the results: Knockout round:
Mukund Bharadiya(Borivali) bt Rohan Sakalkar (Apex Sports) 4-3 (43-09, 07-39, 20-39, 49-16, 47-18, 35-09);
Manoj Gadgil (Deccan) bt Rana Kaadolkar (PYC) 4-2 (41-18, 31-26, 43-06, 27-31, 17-38, 52-07)
Rajwardhan Joshi (PYC) bt Ninad Ghag (Tables) 4-0 (40-37, 24-22, 49-32, 48-18)
Kankan Samshi (Lukhnow) bt Salil Deshpande (PYC) 4-0 (39-10, 30-16, 27-24, 43-08)
Nimish Kulkarni (PYC) bt Sameer Bidwai 4-2 (20-55, 52-12, 25-36, 44-30, 38-01, 33-02)
Abhinay Edke (Dombivali) bt Sachin Sancheti (PYC) 4-2 (32-40, 32-04, 41-07, 27-30, 42-00, 37-07);
Yogesh Lohiya (PYC) bt Omar Farooqui (Aurangabad) 4-2 (35-13, 44-27, 09-30, 19-32, 34-32, 26-35, 31-01)
Yogesh Sharma(Poona Club) bt Vedant Joshi(Deccan) 4-0 (39-21, 36-26, 32-07, 32-07);
Karan Mangat(Washi) bt Devendra Joshi 4-1(01-32, 32-13, 35-22, 33-25, 37-19);
Arantxa Sanchez(Turf Club) bt Vijay Nichani(TN) 4-3(18-44, 67-55, 07-48, 09-50, 38-26, 35-30, 31-16);

Knock Out round:
Mandeep Singh(Lukhnow) bt Chintamani Jadhav(Corner Pocket) 4-2(34-18, 46-17, 31-40, 40-09, 26-40,45-13);
Sahil Gadiya(Deccan) bt Avinash Gaikwad(Kalyan) 4-1(08-44, 33-20, 29-13, 29-02, 43-02);
Satish Karad bt Adwait Lohkare 4-0(32-19, 33-19, 48-00, 37-11);
Samar Khandelwal(Deccan) bt Amey Tilak(Aurangabad) 4-3(19-33, 61-04, 39-02, 35-06, 00-32, 24-32, 46-06);
Liyakat Ali(Solapur) bt Sunil Algude(Deccan) 4-2(30-18, 43-20, 30-44, 20-48, 45-25, 36-15);
Kaiwalya Chavan(Satara) bt Chetan Chhabra(Hyderabad) 4-1(38-11, 44-45, 37-15, 35-22, 38-04);
Abhijeet Ranade(PYC) bt Ganesh Jadhav(Satara) 4-0(49-08, 38-09, 42-02, 64-34)