Mumbai: Top-ranked Pankaj Advani of ONGC was in scintillating form as he showed his class with a magnificent 131 clearance break, and went on to record a comprehensive 4-0 win against local challenger Manav Panchal of Mumbai, in the All India CCI Open Snooker Championship, at the CCI’s Sir Wilson Jones billiards room, table here on Friday.
His century break in the third frame is the best in the competition and has now qualified for the highest break prize of Rs 25,000. The qualifying mark was 130 and above. He rolled in another decent run of 53 in the fourth frame to script a 78-24, 65-4, 131-0 and 73-22 scoreline.
It was bad day in the office Indian No. 4 Kamal Chawla of Railway as he was potted out with 1-4 defeat at the hands of Telangana’s Lucky Vatnani in another encounter. Following Chawla was Sourav Kothari of PSPB also crashed out as he stumbled to a 3-4 defeat by Malkeet Singh in a tense match. Malkeet came up with a timely break of 60 in the decider to snatch a deserving 83-12, 27-68, 1-86, 59-8, 1-69, 69-27 and 74)-34 win.
National women champion Varsha Sanjeev of Karnataka went down fighting to Mumbai’s flamboyant Vimal Mariwala losing 3-4. Mariwala playing in his usual free-flowing fashion cashed in on the chances to clinch a 80-9, 45-51, 52-39, 19-49, 62-63, 43-39 and 50-29 victory to progress to the round of 32.
Results
Pankaj Advani (ONGC) bt Manav Panchal (Mum) 4-0 (78-24, 65-4, 131 (131) -0, 73 (53) -22);
Divya Sharma (Har) bt Pushpinder Shingh (Del) 4-1 (22-72, 54-43, 56-28, 77-17, 72 (52) -29); R Girish (Rlys) bt Hitesh Kotwani (Mum) 4-0 (65-31, 56-27, 62-37, 80 (58) -0); Monu Choudhry (Del) bt Shahbaaz Adil Khan (ONGC) 4-2 (44-58, 1-67 (67), 70 (54) -23, 75-37, 74-15, 84-42); Rupesh Shah
(Guj) bt Sundeep Gulati (Del) 4-3 (34-64, 61-6, 61-7, 45-61, 69-59, 50-60, 86 (86) -60); Varun Madan (Del) bt Bharat Sissodia (MP) 4-2 (81-42, 52-65, 73-38, 49-78, 60-28, 71-28); Vimal Mariwala (Mum) bt Varsha Sanjeev (Kar) 4-3 (80 (49) -9, 45-51, 52-39, 19-49, 62-63, 43-39, 50-29);
S Dilip Kumar (Rlys) bt Kaniskh Janjaria (Mum) 4-2 4-2 (68 (47)-30, 68 (54) -49, 54-60, 63-53, 50-62, 70-36); Manan Chandra (BPCL) bt M.S. Arun (Kar) 4-1 (72-24, 70-12, 44-76, 94 (63) -22, 75-40); Lucky Vatnani (Tel) bt Kamal Chawla (Rlys) 4-1 (55-57, 73-8, 65-8, 61-53, 75-2); Malkeet Singh (Rlys) bt Sourav Kothari (ONGC) 4-3 (83-12, 27-68, 1-86 (86), 59-8, 1-69, 69-27, 74
(60) -34)
