Manisha National Billiards & Snooker Championship 2017
Double crown for S Srikrishna
16-Jan-2017
S Srikrishna of Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu cueist bags sub-junior snooker title
Pune: Defending champion and top seed S Srikrishna of Tamil Nadu justified his seeding by bagging a double crown in the Manisha National Billiards and Snooker Championship at PYC Hindu Gymkhana on Monday.
Srikrishna had already won sub-junior billiards title and then came up with equally brilliant game to win sub-junior snooker title. In the final, he defeated Haryana’s Digvijay Kadian 63-23, 55-30, 82-41.
In the second frame, Digvijay put his best efforts to equalise the scores but he couldn’t do much against Srikrishna’s accurate potting and cleaver tactics.
Earlier, in the semifinals, Srikrishna registered one-sided win over Chandigarh’s Ravneer Duggal. The 11-year-old had created sensation by beating higher ranked Sparsh Pherwani of Maharashtra in the quarterfinals. But, he was totally dominated by Srikrishna, who closed down the encounter with a 65-18, 68-12 win.
Ranveer also failed to perform in the clash for the third place and went down tamely to Maharashtra’s Kreishh Gurbaxani 61-68, 53-68.
Meanwhile, Srikrishna also marched ahead in the junior category and have entered last four in the billiards section. He along with Maharashtra’s Sparsh Pherwani, Madhya Pradesh’s Hritik Jain and Ashutosh Padhye of Orrisa will play a round-robin format to decide the winner.
Results: sub-junior snooker final: S Shrikrishna (TN) bt Digvijay Kadian (HAR) 63-23, 55-30, 82-41 (3rd place) Kreishh Gurbaxani (MH) bt Ranveer Duggal (CHG) 68-61, 68-53.
Junior billiards: Sparsh Pherwani (Mah) bt Digvijay Kadian (HAR) 359-328; S Shrikrishna (TN) bt Sumehr Mago (MH) 547-221; Hritik Jain (MP) bt Loukik Pathare (MH) 384-276; Ashutosh Padhye (Orissa) bt Kreishh Gurbaxani (MH) 413 (60) – 236.
Junior Snooker (Qualifiers) Mark Menezes (UP) bt Ibrahim Ali (MH) 54-22, 70 (57)- 33; Abhinav Diman (HAR) bt Piyush Khattar (UP) 55-5, 43-55, 70-4; Himanshu Kukreti (UP) bt Suhel Ansari (UP) 60-49, 53-59, 47-73, 70-33; Sandee Behl (PUB) bt Japneet Singh (PUB) 33-64, 29-54, 67-25, 60-21, 50-8; S Sethi (PUB) bt Arjun Mahajan (KAR) 70-34, 50-60, 12-50, 71-29, 78-14.