Billiards News
At World Professional Billiards Championship 2010, Leeds, England

Group A
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Devendra Joshi (IND) 818 -469
Sourav Kothari (IND) bt Martin Goodwill (ENG) 718 - 262
Sourav Kothari (IND) bt Sushrat Pandia (IND) 1152 - 189
Martin Goodwill (ENG) bt Devendra Joshi (IND) 500 - 493

Group B
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Rupesh Shah (IND) 461 - 441
Matthew Sutton (ENG) bt Siddharth Parikh (IND) 385 - 351
Siddharth Parikh (IND) bt Bem French (ENG) 964 - 201
Geet Sethi (IND) bt Matthew Sutton (ENG) 1199 - 223

Group C
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt David Causier (ENG) 593 - 498
Phil Mumford (ENG) bt Mark Hirst (ENG) 599 - 347
Mark Hirst (ENG) bt Ashok Shandilya (IND) 560 - 386
David Causier (ENG) bt Phil Mumford (ENG) 1150 - 289

Group D
Mike Russell (QAT) bt Peter Gilchrist (SIN) 719 - 393
Robert Marshall (ENG) bt Gary Rogers (ENG) 730 - 148
Gary Rogers (ENG) bt Ian Williamson (ENG) 368 - 277
Peter Gilchrist (SIN) bt Robert Marshall (ENG) 674 - 422

In the final session Geet scored another dominating win against Matthew Sutton to complete group stage winning all matches ... Again on consecutive second day he scored highest break of 507 in this match ... Sourav Kothari also confirmed his place in quarters with his 3rd win in three matches ... Now he and Pankaj face to decide group winner ... Rupesh and Dhruv need to win their last matches to qualify for quarters ... David Causier and Mike Russell r also qualified ... Group D becoming interesting after Mike's win over Peter ... Robert Marshall need to win last match against Ian Williamson with more than 304 pts to qualify for quarters otherwise Peter Gilchrist will qualify.

Geet won exciting match as he was 108 pts down when last 8 mins were remaining, he scored unfinished 128 pts in remaining time to won by 20 pts.