Friday, October 18, 2013

Snooker News

At £300K Indian Open, New Delhi, India

[SF] Aditya Mehta (IND,72) bt (5) Stephen Maguire (SCO,5) 4-3 (84-0, 137(81)-0, 132(132)-0, 0-72(68), 10-53, 6-67(61), 67-45)

[F] Aditya Mehta (IND,72) vs (4) Ding Junhui (CHN,4)

Aditya is in the final of Indian open with another thrilling win over top-5 player Scottish Stephen Maguire ... Aditya played exceptionally well and didn't give chance to Stephen on the table in first few frames ... Stephen Maguire failed to score a single point in first 3 frames on his visit ... Aditya won the first frame with substantial small breaks ... In the second frame he scored 81 points break for winning this frame ... Aditya continued with his good form and scored this match's only century break and take 3-0 lead ... At this point it was looking like Aditya was going to steamrolled Stephen Maguire in one-sided match ... But Stephen used all his experience and then played very tactical game on the table ... He started to gave very few chance to Aditya and suddenly Aditya was under pressure ... Stephen won 4th frame with 68 points break ... In 5th frame both players played with very safe approach and again Stephen won this low scoring frame ... Stephen was looking dangerous and he was successfully kept Aditya under pressure ... Stephen scored 61 points break in 6th frame and catch Aditya 3-all ...In the final frame momentum was with Stephen but Aditya kept his nerve and waited for opportunity ... Whenever Aditya got opportunity he was building small breaks to open up the lead ... His this strategy worked wonderfully and that put extra pressure on Stephen ... Aditya kept lead throughout this frame for his first final of ranking tournament of pro-tour ... In the final he is facing Chinese sensation WR #4 Ding Junhui, who is already win 2 tournament in 2013 including big Shanghai Masters.

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