Saturday, April 12, 2008

Billiards News -
At 7th Asian Billiards Championship 2008, Yangon, Myanmar

Geet Sethi, Pankaj Advani and Rupesh Shah participated in Asian Billiards Championship ... Geet challenge ended at group level ... But Pankaj and Rupesh showed excellent cueing to move into final.

Both reached in to the final in contrasting style ... Pankaj crushed Aung San Oo to scored emphatic victory ... Other hand Rupesh showed gritty performance to fought back from 1-3 deficits against Praprut, the current Indoor Asian Games Gold Medalist.


[QF] Pankaj Advani (India) bt Thawat Sujaritthurakarn (Thailand) 4-2
[QF] Rupesh Shah (India) bt Kyaw Oo (Myanmar) 4-1

[SF] Pankaj Advani (India) bt Aung San Oo (Myanmar) 4-0 (100-05, 100-68, 100-55, 100-75)
[SF] Rupesh Shah (India) bt Praprut Chaithanasakun (Thailand) 4-3 (100-35, 38-100, 0-100, 70-100, 100-91, 100-10, 100-15)

[Final] Pankaj Advani (India) vs Rupesh Shah (India)
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Golf News -
At the Masters, Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia - Second Round

1 Trevor Immelman -8
2 Brandt Snedeker -7
T3 Ian Poulter -5
T3 Steve Flesch -5
T3 Phil Mickelson -5
T11 Retief Goosen -2
T13 Tiger Woods -1
T13 Jim Furyk -1
T13 Vijay Singh -1
T21 Angel Cabrera +1
T21 Jeev Milkha Singh +1
T21 Padraig Harrington +1
T29 Justin Rose +2
T29 Adam Scott +2
T40 K.J. Choi +3
-------------------- Cut @ + 3 ---------------------
T58 Daniel Chopra +6

Cruel back 9 holes for Dan, where he scored 3 bogeys and couple of double bogeys ... But I really wish next year he will come here with motto to succeed.

In second round Jeev was struggling with his game but he managed to hold his nerve ... Congrats to Jeev for making 2 cuts 2 Masters.

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