PUNE: Petroleum Sports Promotion Board’s S Srikrishna won the junior billiards title after topping the pool of the round robin rounds at the Manisha-Vascon National Billiards and Snooker Championship being played at PYC Hindu Gymkhana on Thursday.
After potting the highest break of the tournament (211 points) against Rayaan Razmi of Maharashtra on Wednesday, Srikrishna got the better of Sparsh Pherwani 989-338 in the last round robin match. Srikrishna managed breaks of 130 and 126 points which took the game away from Pherwani.
“I won the junior billiards. Next I will be playing junior snooker, after that senior billiards main draw. The tournament was quite decent,” said Srikrishna.
RESULTS
Sub-Junior Snooker:
Quarterfinals:
Ranveer Duggal (Chd) bt Rayaan Razmi (Mah) 3-2 (53-48, 16-52, 07-66, 74-41, 54-46); Sumer Mago (Mah) bt Vibhas Kadiyan (Tel) 3-2 (16-57, 61-21, 43-56, 67-30, 60-16); Digvijay Kadian (Har) bt Shahyan Razmi (Mah) 3-0 (53-34, 58-40, 63-29);
Kreishh Gurbaxani (Mah) bt Priyansh Jain (WB) 3-1(93(93)-01, 69-66, 47-55, 63-31);
Junior Snooker:
First Qualifying Round: Arshnoor Singh (Har) bt Aman Kumar (Jkd) 3-0 (57-14, 53-15, 56-09);
Vaibhav Chougule (TN) bt Mayank Rana (Del) 3-0 (53-26, 55-43, 77-65); Mahendra Chouhan (MP) bt Sahab Singh (Pub) 3-1 (22-48, 66-62, 72-06, 74-09); Barun Singh (Pub) bt Dran Panchal (Guj) 3-1 (26-58, 54-43, 72-17, 66-27); Sayed Mohammed Maaz Ali (Tel) bt Hari Prasad (AP) 3-2 (51-70, 27-59, 62-17, 66-44, 50-21); Aadesh Kothari (TN) bt Parth Shah (Guj) 3-0 (61-42, 59-14, 72-20); Sai Nikhil (AP) bt Sourav Srelam (Tel) 3-0 (71-15, 65-36, 68-58).