Snooker: Easy for fancied players at Indian Open wild-card entry

Fancied players registered convincing wins in the first round of the league stage of the Indian Open wild-card entry tournament at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana here on Monday.

Railways’ Kamal Chawla, one of the top guns in the snooker circuit, got off to a flying start, thrashing Maharashtra’s Hasan Badami 4-0 in a contest set to seven frames. 

Easy for Rajat

Rajat Khaneja was the other player to record a 4-0 victory, the result coming against West Bengal’s Manish Jain. 

The results:

Group A: Rajat Khaneja (Chd) bt Manish Jain (WB) 4-0 (77-32, 70-13, 56-26, 67-11); Pankaj Advani bt Neeraj Kumar 4-2 (42-71, 20-63, 60-49, 73-36, 56-35, 70-68).

Group B: Kamal Chawla (Rlys) bt Hasan Badami (Mah) 4-0 (62-54, 62-13, 69(61)-7, 75(58)-32).

Alok Kumar (PSPB) bt J. Varun Kumar (TN) 4-1 (79-27, 64-40, 50-64, 62-49, 64-22).

Group C: Varun Madan (Del) bt R. Girish (Rlys) 4-2 (73-36, 57-00, 43-75, 56-77, 73-37, 61-05); Brijesh Damani bt Rafath Habib 4-1 (63-26, 43-64, 68-35, 56-8, 68-8).

Group D: Pushpender Singh (Rlys) bt Siddharth Parikh (Rlys) 4-1 (67-12, 62-35, 82-51, 17-65, 95(95)-0); Dharminder Lilly (Pun) bt Anuj Uppal (Del) 4-2 (63-39, 71-17, 45-76, 38-56, 74-14, 62-35).

Group E: Manan Chandra (PSPB) bt Shivam Arora (Bihar) 4-1 (22-62, 69-62, 82-38, 83-29, 68-36); Faisal Khan bt Himanshu Jain 4-1 (57-17, 48-56, 83 (52)-31, 79 (79)-15, 58-31).

Group F: Sumeet Talwar (Chd) bt Laxman Rawat (Mah) 4-2 (41-65, 63-25, 61-38, 63-19, 28-71, 59-24), Sandeep Gulati (Del) bt Vijay Nichani (TN) 4-1 (59-50, 33-71, 63-28, 82-35, 59-35).