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At World Professional Billiards Championship 2010, Leeds, England

Quarter Finals
Pankaj Advani (IND) vs Dhruv Sitwala (IND)
Geet Sethi (IND) vs Peter Gilchrist (SIN)
David Causier (ENG) vs Sourav Kothari (IND)
Mike Russell (QAT) vs Rupesh Shah (IND)

Group A
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Sourav Kothari (IND) 965 - 457
Martin Goodwill (ENG) bt Sushrat Pandia (IND) 906 - 239

Group B
Siddharth Parikh (IND) bt Rupesh Shah (IND) 416 - 252
Matthew Sutton (ENG) bt Bem French (ENG) 705 - 242

Group C
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) bt Mark Hirst (ENG) 430 - 429
Ashok Shandilya (IND) bt Phil Mumford (ENG) 566 - 554

Group D
Mike Russell (QAT) bt Gary Rogers (ENG) 1070 - 338
Ian Williamson (ENG) bt Robert Marshall (ENG) 375 - 321

Pankaj won comfortably by 500+ points to won Group A ... Sourav Kothari joined him in quarters from Group A on second position.

Geet Sethi already won Group B with dominating performance in his all matches ... Young Siddharth Parikh surprised seasoned and 2007 IBSF World Billiards Champion (Points) Rupesh Shah ... Both finished with 2 wins in this ... Siddharth Parikh's points tally was +409 and Rupesh Shah's point tally was +583 ... So Rupesh qualified on second position.

In Group C, David Causier won this group ... Dhruv Sitwala won match of the championship ... When time finished Dhruv was ahead by only 1 point against Mark Hirst ... This win helped Dhruv to qualify on second position.

In Group D as expected Mike Russell qualified on top despite losing one match on the opening day ... Peter Gilchrist joined him in quarters in second position.

In quarters Geet and Pankaj r in same draw with Peter Gilchrist to grab place in the final.