Thursday, October 17, 2013

Snooker News

At £300K Indian Open, New Delhi, India

[QF] Aditya Mehta (IND,72) bt Pankaj Advani (IND,70) 4-3 (29-70, 70-0, 68(51)- 82, 58-43, 65(55)-24), 45-66, 72-0)

[SF] Aditya Mehta (IND,72) vs (5) Stephen Maguire (SCO,5)

Aditya become first Indian to reach in the semi-final of big snooker professional ranking event ... He defeated compatriot Pankaj Advani in exciting match which lasted more than 5 hours ... This match was played with lot of passion, both players started with attacking game ... Pankaj won the first frame making less mistakes ... From the second frame both players played highly tactical and safe game ... Aditya won this frame with timely small but significant breaks ... In the third frame Aditya scored first 50 break of the match but he made silly mistake and after that Pankaj produced superb comeback when he was more than 40 points behind ... In end both players playing safe shots and wasn't giving chance to their opponent ... In end Pankaj won this an hour long frame ... The fourth frame was against very complicated and tactical ... This closely fought frame won by Aditya and made score 2-all ... In fifth frame Aditya scored his second fifty break and this time kept advantage to won this frame ... First time in the match Aditya take lead 3-2 ... Sixth frame was another closely fought and Panakj used his all experience to won in the end to made it 3-all ... In the final frame Aditya played flawless snooker and didn't give any chance to Pankaj and scored timely couple 30s for deserving win ... Next he is facing WR #5 Scottish Stephen Maguire.

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