Friday, April 11, 2014

Snooker News

At Dafabet World Championship Qualifiers 2014, Sheffield, England

[QR2] Pankaj Advani (IND,62) bt Li Hang (CHN,93) 10-9 (60-27, 58(52)-70, 2-100(67), 62-25, 0-140(116), 56(55)-67(67), 28-70(52), 62-51, 1-128(120), 72-42, 72-59, 7-68(61), 1-100(85), 78-54, 87-0, 73(67)-1, 20-82, 73-12, 64-1)

[QR2] Aditya Mehta (IND,59) bt (a) Christopher Keogan (ENG) 10-4 (90(53)-13, 85-22, 64-44, 10-80, 33-70, 90(70)-0, 7-61, 97(81)-4, 103-12, 94-6, 54-70, 111(72)-2, 83-9, 74-20)

[QR3] Pankaj Advani (IND,62) vs Robbie Williams (ENG,68)
[QR3] Aditya Mehta (IND,59) vs Jamie Jones (WAL,47)

Aditya and Pankaj r first time playing in World championship of pro tour ... As per their current ranking they received first qualifying round bye ... In the second qualifying round Aditya faced British amateur player Christopher Keogan, who scored upset win over #92 ranked Scottish player in the first round ... Keogan troubled Aditya and early but from 4-3 frames Aditya won 6 out of next 7 frames for victory in this best of 19 frames match ... His third qualifying round opponent is top-50 Wales player Jamie Jones.

Pankaj faced Chinese opponent Li Hang and he really needed to dig deep for this hard fought win ... On the break Pankaj was down 3-5 frames ... Hang was scoring big breaks in this match, he scored two hundred plus and five fifty plus breaks in 8 frames ... On 6th frame Pankaj was leading 56-0 but Hang scored 67 points break and won this frame 67-56 ... Match continues with see-saw but each time Hang takes lead and Pankaj tried to catch him ... Hang take 8-5 frames lead but this time Pankaj won next 3 frames to make it 8-all ... Hang again won 17th frame to lead 8-9 but this time also Pankaj fought back and won next two frames for exciting win ... Next he is facing similar ranked British player.

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