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Sethi in knock-out stage

Avinash Nair

— Photo: K. Murali Kumar

PICTURE OF CONCENTRATION: Geet Sethi breezed past Gary Norman.

BANGALORE: Geet Sethi romped into the knock-out phase of the IBSF world billiards time format championship as the top seed with a revised seeding while Devendra Joshi who has shown renewed vigour emerging through the qualifying rounds is placed as the second seed in the bottom half of the draw and is likely to meet Peter Gilchrist in the semifinals, barring upsets.

If the matches go as per seedings, Geet could be meeting Pankaj in the last four in the top half of the draw.

The results: Group ‘A’: Pankaj Advani (Ind) 1483 (239, 138,109) bt S.M. Shaharwardi (SL) 655. Group ‘B’: Boon Aun Keith (Sin) 633 bt Darren Taylor (Nzl) 598; Devendra Joshi (Ind) 1171 (144, 109, 415) bt Thawat Sujaritthurakarn (Tha) 556.

Group ‘C’: Calum Hossack (Sco) w/o Philip Mumford (Eng); Sourav Kothari (Ind) 1231 (170, 394, 116, 115) bt Thanh Long Nguyen (Vie) 427. Group ‘D’: Dhruv Sitwala (Ind) 1312 (116, 193) bt Mohammed Aslam (SL) 505; Thanh Binh Nguyen (Vie) 852 bt Larry Drennan (Ire) 602.

Group ‘E’: Peter Gilchrist (Sin) 1007 (128, 146, 110) bt Shyam Jagtiani (Ind) 735 (120, 112); Md. Asim (Ind) 812 bt Raghoo Sinha (Ind) 698.

Group ‘F’: B. Bhaskar (Ind) 1236 (175, 116, 287) bt Gary Oliver (Nzl) 440; Praprut Chaithanasakun (Tha) 1015 (289, 100) bt Brijesh Damani (Ind) 497 (109).

Group ‘G’: Rupesh Shah (Ind) 1031 (118, 208) bt Arvind Savur (Ind) 637; Suriya Suwannasingh (Tha) 782 (130) bt Wayne Carey (Nzl) 431. Group ‘H’: Aidan Murray (Ire) 538 bt Tiek Chong Alan Puan (Sin) 426; Geet Sethi (Ind) 1544 (312,130,126, 308 unfinished) bt Gary Norman (Eng) 362.

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