Thursday, April 14, 2011

Billiards News
At 2011 Asian Billiards and U-21 Snooker, Kish Island, Iran

Final
Alok Kumar (IND) bt Praput Chaithanasakun (THA) 6-0 (101(93)-02, 101(84)-02, 100(85)-06, 100(40)-72, 101(73)-18, 101(76*)-57)

Semi Finals
Alok Kumar (IND) bt Peter Gilchrist (SIN) 5-2 (102(67)-71(62), 101-87, 100(100)-0, 14-102(77), 102(98)-34, 00-101(83), 100(72)-13)

Quarter Finals
Alok Kumar (IND) bt Pankaj Advani (IND) 4-3
Dhruv Sitwala (IND) l Peter Gilchrist (SIN) 2-4
Geet Sethi (IND) l Praput Chaithanasakun (THA) 3-4

Alok Kumar easily defeated Thai Praput Chaithanasukan 6-0 to win the Asian Billiards title and take revenge of losing against Praput in group stage ... With this win Alok become the 1st player to achieve the rare feat of winning both the Billiards and Snooker Asian titles ... In 2004 in Jordan, Alok Kumar won the Asian Snooker title by defeating his compatriot Pankaj Advani in the finals.

In his dream run to win title Alok Kumar defeated 3 former World Champions Pankaj Advani, Singapore's Peter Gilchrist and Thailand's Praprut Chaithanasukan in the quarter final, semifinal and final respectively.

In a best of 11 games - 100 points format, Alok from the start showed great form ... On his first visit to the table he scored a break of 93 to go ahead 1-0 ... Then in next 2 games with breaks of 84 and 85 respectively he went ahead 3-0 in just 25 minutes of play ... After that Praput never recovered though he tried to fight in 4th and 6th frames but Alok kept his focus to won it without losing a frame.

Alok Kumar participated in this event with regaining Asian Billiards Champion Pankaj Advani, Dhruv Sitwala and Geet Sethi ... Pankaj qualified for knockout stage winning Group D and others qualified on second place from their groups ... Alok defeated Pankaj in well fought match in quarters ... Geet and Dhruv also failed to qualify for semis.

In u-21 Snooker Asian championship our all 3 players; Zubin Leninwala, Vipin Premi and Rovin D'Souza; failed to qualify for knockout stage.

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