Indore based Internationally famed lady cueist of Madhya Pradesh,Amee Kamani did her state and herself proud when she bagged the Senior Ladies billiards crown in the ongoing Manisha Vascon 2020 National billiards & snooker championship being organized, so very well under the auspices of the BSFI here at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana on Wednesday morning.
Amee outclassed the young Delhi lady player, Keerath Bhandaal by three games to one in the best of 5 75 up games contest.
In a match between players of contrasting style. Keerath being very deliberate and mehodical and Amee who likes to get on with the game, it was Keerath who began well using her unusual way of taking alignment for her shots. Amee seemed to be in a state of bother due to the slow pace of the game.
However, once she got going Amee fired in breaks of a 21 and a 22 unfinished to wrest the first game.
Keerath potting well and mixing some ” Long loser” In – offs to advantage struck back to take the second game and level scores at 1-1. Reorganizing her game plan in the third, Amee notched up an unfinished break of 21 to take a 2-1 games lead.
Keerath seemed to wilt under this pressure and Amee completed the formality of taking the fourth game with a fluent nine hazards break of 27 to finish the game with a flourish.
Amee won by 76-66, 55-75, 78-39 and 75-32 points to lift the final and the title.
In the match for the third and fourth place between Revenna Uma Devi Nagraj of Karnataka and Aranxta Sanchis of Maharashtra, the young talented Aranxta was right on cue scoring with a soft touch and precision shots, especially potting from the red spot to seal the third place, a worthy winner by 75-62 and 75-54 points.
Uma who seemed a bit off colour today was content to secure the fourth place.
In the Senior Ladies snooker event which also began Renu Barkatiya beat Mayura Yolekar of Maharashtra by 2-0.
Vidya Pillai of TN beat PS Angel of AP by 2-0
Anupama. R of TN beat Sharmila Devi of Pondichery by 2-0.
Indira Gowda of Karnataka beat Shiveena Thakur of MP by 2-0 and Varsha Sanjeev beat Aanya Patel of Gujarat.
Coming over to the Men’s Senior snooker round robin league, in a match to decide the topper from their particular group, the tie which cornered all the attention of the spectators was the battle between the defending national snooker champion, Pankaj Advani and the Star snooker player of Uttar Pradesh, Paras Gupta.
The match began on a normal note as Pankaj chalked up a break of 78 to easily wrap up the first frame of the best of seven encounter, but suddenly Paras came alive with superb potting in the second helped by a break of 57 to level match score at 1-1.
Pankaj came up with a quick fire break of 57 to snatch the third frame, only to find Paras rallying very well with a break of 54 in the fourth to restore parity at 2 all.
Then came the drama in the fifth, Paras needing all the three colours left on the table, the blue, pink and black, potted the blue struck the pink a little too hard to see the ball being refused by the jaw and Pankaj, heaving a sigh of relief completed the formality to go up by 3-2 frames.
It was a disheartened Paras who lapsed into a couple of errors and Pankaj did the needful to pocket the frame and match.
Nevertheless some satisfaction came the way of Uttar Pradesh when their star 6 red snooker exponent, Akshay Kumar beat Odisha, s promising player, Asutosh Padhy by 38-43, 18-63, 64-45, 71-48, 59-58 and 60-57 points in a virtual she saw match.
Akshay trailing by 0-2 frames grinded Asutosh in the next four frames to pip him at the post winning the gripping tie on the decisive black ball. With this victory, Akshay alone with his state mate, Paras qualified for the last 32 Knock out round.
The remaining player of Uttar Pradesh in the league,Anuj Bhargava, after the losses of their other players, Vinayak Agarwal and Vishwajeet Mohan, also made his exit when he was beaten by Nitesh Madan of RSPB by 1-4 frames.
In other matches:-
Malkeet Singh of RSPB beat Suraj Rathi of MH by 4-0 frames.
Sumit Talwar of CH beat Avinash Kumar of DEL by 4-3 frames.
Manan Chandra of PSPB beat Rovin D’Souza of RSPB by 4-0 frames.
Manish Jain of WB beat Aditya Agarwal of RSPB by 4-1 frames.
Ishpreet Singh Chadha of MH beat Dig Vijay Kadian by 4-3 frames.
Varun Madan of DEL beat Mohd. Shoaib Khan of WB by 4-3 frames.
Dharminder Lilly of PUN beat IH Manudev of KAR by 4-1 frames.
AnmoldeepSingh of PUN beat Rahul Sachdev of MH by 4-1 frames.
Himanshu Jain of TLGN beat Lalrina of MIZ by 4-2.
Alok Kumar of PSPB beat Arshad Zama of WB by 4-1 frames.
Brijesh Damani of PSPB beat Mohammad Husain of RSPB by 4-0 frames.
R. Girish of RSPB beat Shivam Arora by 4-1 frames.
Divya Sharma of HAR beat Pushpinder Singh of RSPB by 4-1 frames.
Anurag Giri of MP beat Anuj Uppal of DEL by 4-1 frames.
Neeraj Khemka of WB beat Rafath Habib by 4-0 frames.
Shahbaz Khan of PSPB beat Taaha Khan of MH by 4-1 frames.
Evenso, the performer of the day was S. Shri krishna who struck breaks of 98 in the fifth and a century, a classic break of 111 in the seventh deciding frame to beat back the challenge of Khizar Raof of TLGN by 4-3 frames.
