India takes silver behind China

November 15, 2010 01:09 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 05:32 am IST - Guangzhou

Indian players Yasin Merchant, Aditya Mehta and Brijesh Damani won the team silver.

Indian players Yasin Merchant, Aditya Mehta and Brijesh Damani won the team silver.

Cue sports maintained the medal trickle for India as the snooker team won the silver behind China in the Asian Games here on Monday.

China was expectedly formidable and proved too good, though Aditya Mehta did well to beat Liang Wenbo 51-46.

The key to the contest lay with Ding Junhui, a professional snooker player based in England, who had accounted for three gold medals in the last edition in Doha in 2006.

“We would have liked to win the gold, but our opponents were too strong,” said Yasin Merchant, after the Indian team had lost to the host 1-3 in the final.

The Indian team had earlier beaten Pakistan 3-0 in the semifinals with Aditya Mehta beating Sohail Shehzad 84-8, Yasin Merchant recording a 75-45 victory over Imran Shehzad, and then combining with Brijesh Damani to stop Imran Shehzad and Shahram Changezi in their stride at 91-61.

It was an improvement for the Indian snooker team, that had won the bronze in the last edition in 2006. Yasin Merchant and Aditya Mehta had figured in that team as well.

Pankaj Advani had opened the gold account for India with the billiards individual honour on Sunday. He will also be competing in the individual snooker event from November 18.

The result (final): China bt India 3-1 (Ding Junhui bt Yasin Merchant 70-16; Liang Wenbo lost to Aditya Mehta 46-51; Ding Junhui and Tian Pengfei bt Yasin Merchant and Aditya Mehta 68-27; Liang Wenbo bt Yasin Merchant 96-4).

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.