The CCI Open Snooker Tournament 2018
Top seed Advani and Mehta win easily to stroll into CCI Snooker 2nd round
15-Feb-2018
Pankaj Advani (PSPB)
Mumbai, February 15: The top two seeds Pankaj Advani and Aditya Mehta, both of PSPB straight away got into cracking form and both recorded emphatic 4-0 first round victories in the Rs 12.25 lakh prize-money CCI All India Open Snooker Championship 2018, and played at the CCI’s Wilson Jones Billiards Room on Thursday evening.
The holder 18 world titles, snooker and billiards, Advani brooked little opposition from the railway cueist Aravind Kumar and romped to victory. Advani started with a 71 break in the first frame as he cruised to a facile 91-1, 70-9, 77-8 and 78-39 triumph to progress to the second round.
On the side table, Aditya Mehta the lone Indian cueist playing the professional circuit got down to business instantly and sidelined the challenge from Akshay Kumar of Uttar Pradesh winning in four straight frames. Aditya stormed to a
Manan Chardra of PSPB also scored an easy 4-0 win against Maharashtra’s Abhimanyu Gandhi. The former National champion potted well and with a break of 59 in the second wen on to clinch a 54-37, 94-17, 91-29, 73-26.
Results – First round:
Divya Sharma (Har) bt Aditya Agarwal 4-2 (60(53)-11, 27-73, 72-59, 55-28. 35-84, 72-59);
Shahabaz Adil Khan (PSPB) bt Sidraj Shah (CCI) 68-26, 89-0, 25-68, 27-60, 65-2, 75-67);
Rahul Sachdev (Mah) bt Alok Kumar (PSPB) 4-2 (62-18, 6-91, 3-75, 66-42, 80(53)-16, 70-25);
Ishpreet Singh Chadha (Mah) bt Aayush Kumar (UP) 4-0 (96-52, 81-34, 62-60, 56-47);
Sundeep Gulati (PSPB) bt Malkeet Singh (Rly) 4-3 (43-82, 40-70, 60-42, 9-61, 70-35, 66-15, 70-58);
Sourav Kothari (PSPB ) bt Manav Panchal (Mah) 4-1 (91(77)-25, 46-67, 60-13, 88-62, 99(99)-0);
Manish Jain (WB) bt Dilip Kumar (Rly) 4-3 (23-92, 53-61, 72-21, 63-24, 70(64)-21, 30-90, 61-56);
Himanshu Jain (TLGN) bt R. Girish (Rly) 4-1 (75(66)-15, 78-65, 15-70, 55-18, 55-9);
Kamal Chawla (Rly) bt Nitesh Madan (Rly) 4-1 (81-5, 86-0, 86-6, 6-86(86), 86(60)-10);
Pankaj Advani (PSPB) bt Aravind Kumar (Rly) 4-0 (91(71)-1, 70-9, 77-8, 78-39);
Sumit Talwar (Puj) bt Taaha Khan (Pune) 4-3 (72-41, 13-74(73), 66-13, 73(51)-8, 57-64, 47-63, 77-23);
Manan Chandra (PSPB) bt Abhimanyu Gandhi (Mah) 4-0 (54-37, 94(59)-17, 91-29, 73-26);
Aditya Mehta (PSPB) bt Akshay Kumar (UP) 4-0 (68-18, 69-63, 74-61, 95-0);
Yasin Merchant (Mah) bt Siddharth Parikh (Rly) 4-3 (54-57, 67-56, 73-19, 09-74, 74-9, 44-71, 56-45);