Billiards News
At World Professional Billiards 2009, Leeds, England

Final
Pankaj Advani (IND) bt Mike Russell (QAT) 2030-1253

24 yrs old Pankaj lifted his first World Professional Billiards title defeating 9 times World Professional Billiards champion and defending champion Mike Russell ... Before this match Pankaj never won match against Mike Russell ... So winning match on such a big stage is amazing feat for Pankaj.

Pankaj started well and take early lead in first session ... In first session he scored 5 hundred breaks, highest was 226 pts ... Mike Russell managed only 1 hundred break of 193 pts ... Pankaj's average per visit on board was 63.0 pts in first session and Mike managed only average of 23.2 pts .. Until end of first session Pankaj was leading by 650 points, 1070-418 ... In second session Mike Russell tried to fightback but Pankaj was in no mood to lose advantage and matched Mike's game ... In this session both scored 3 hundred breaks, Mike's highest was 219 and Pankaj's was 147 ... But again Pankaj was better on per visit average, Pankaj was 33.1 pts an Mike was 26.1 ... So in end Pankaj scored comfortable win by almost 800 pts.
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Boxing News
At the XV AIBA World Championships, Milan, Italy

81 Kg
[R2] Dinesh Kumar (IND) bt Vladimir Reznicek (CZE) 15-7

[R3] Dinesh Kumar (IND) vs Costantin Bejenaru (ROU)

91 Kg
Manpreet Singh (IND) l Oleksandr Usyk (UKR) 2-16

Dinesh Kumar made strong start in ongoing World Championship against Czech boxer ... In first round both boxers played attacking boxing but Dinesh managed more scoring punches to lead 8-4 ... Second round Dinesh Kumar won easily with 5-1 and as expected in final round he only defended his lead to score comfortable lead.

But in 91 Kg category match Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk crushed Indian challenge of Manpreet Singh in one-sided bout.