PUNE: City cueist Sanket Mutha scored two wins in a day in the double elimination round format in the BSAM 6-Red Snooker State Selection tournament being played at Poona Club tables.
Both the matches were well contested--first he defeated Poras Shah of Mumbai Gymkhana 39-3, 48-23, 12-36, 50-21, 14-31, 32-21 and then edged past Yogesh Lohiya 9-37, 43-32, 31-21, 37-21, 26-33, 40-63, 49-1.
On the other table, Siddharth Tembe scored a 4-1 victory over Omkar Gore from Chiplun.
RESULTS
Double Elimination Round: Sanket Mutha (Pune) bt Poras Shah (MG) 4-2 (39-3, 48-23, 12-36, 50-21, 14-31, 32-21); Ashwin Palnitkar (Pune) bt Chintamani Jadhav (Corner Pocket) 4-2 (33-22, 34-1, 25-36, 16-48, 36-25, 34-1); Sanket Mutha bt Yogesh Lohiya (Pune) 4-3 (9-37, 43-32, 31-21, 37-21, 26-33, 40-63, 49-1); Pinak Anap (Pune) bt Shubhojit Roy(Mumbai) 4-3 (37-10, 49-11, 57-16, 8-41, 1-48, 30-39, 40-30); Poras Shah (Mum) bt Prashant Natu (Pune) 4-2 (24-29, 52-21, 43-15, 48-20, 16-33, 44 (40)-0); Suraj Rathi (Mum) bt Amardeep Ghodke (Pune) 4-0 (46-32, 54-25, 37-21, 36-5); Shahyan Razmi (Mum) bt Madhav J (Pune) 4-2 (50-19, 14-45, 37-4, 40-1, 32-38, 38-24); Siddharth Tembe (Pune) bt Omkar Gore (Chiplun) 4-1 (19-50, 42-21, 35-7, 39-21, 39-26); Chaitanya Dixit (Nagpur) bt Pankaj Parmar (Pune) 4-1 (51-33, 27-19, 27-32, 39-6, 56-13).