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Amee Kamani of Madhya Pradesh defends her National 6Reds title.
Amee Kamani, the Indore based International cueist of Madhya Pradesh covered herself with glory here at the Sports Club of Gujarat even as the curtain came down on the last day of the 13 days Casa Copenhagen 6 red snooker championship 2020 jointly organized by the Gujarat State Billiards Association & the Sports club of Gujarat under the auspices of the Billiards & Snooker Federation Of India which concluded on Wednesday evening
Amee won the National 6 red Ladies snooker championship defeating her good friend, the multiple times national champion, Vidya Pillai of Karnataka by 4 frames to 2.
The Ladies final never rose to any great height as Vidya played well below par to allow Amee to cruise home, a 4-2 frames victor by 48-60, 41-00, 46-09, 39-17, 18-28 and 30-17 points.
Amee potting, to a nicety, began in a whirlwind fashion to pocket the second, third and fourth frame after Vidya had taken the first frame with commendable ease.
Amee down by 0-1 came to the billiards table with an aggressive manner just outpotting Vidya before even Vidya could consolidate on her good start.
However, Vidya did get one back by wresting the fifth frame in a battle for ” the safety first ” tactics. In the end Amee faltered on the colours stage, capitalising on which Vidya was able to stage a comeback of sorts.
Leading by 3-2, Amee played a trifle cautiously in the process of scoring well on the opportunity which presented herself.
Potting confidently on the colours stage, she contrived a situation where Vidya gave her a chance.
Pouncing on it, Amee completed the formality of winning the frame and match thereafter.
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Pankaj Advani Retains his 6Red National title
News – Men, s final which had begun along with the Ladies final.
It was actually Ishpreet who set the tenor of the match by winning the cagey first frame. Pankaj came back wresting the second frame only to find Ishpreet playing well enough in an identical percentage game battle taking the third and fourth frame to gain an invaluable lead by 3-1 frames.
In the fifth frame too Ishpreet was well poised to pocket the fifth frame but a costly lapse on the colours stage allowed Pankaj to wrest the initiative and take the frame narrowing the gap to 2-3.
In the following two frames Pankaj was on a roll easily taking the sixth and seventh frames to forge ahead by 4-3 frames for the first time in the best of 13 frames tie.
Yet it was the super fluke on the colours stage of the eighth frame which actually helped Pankaj to claim the honours.
Had that fluke not come at the nick of time, Ishpreet was still in with a good chance to make a match of it.
However as they say the Champion always have the edge in matters of luck so be it.
What followed in the last two frames was a mere formality thereafter as Pankaj was his fluent self while Ishpreet seemed to lose the motivation.
Pankaj completed the formality with consummate ease eventually to lift the beautiful glass trophy and the title.
Ishpreet was also not shamed while ending up the runner – up in the almost two weeks of packed snooker action.
Report 9
A true champion is one who performs to his potential when it matters most. The Golden Boy of Cue Sports, Padam Bhushan Pankaj Advani was certainly that on Tuesday here at the Sports club of Gujarat on the penultimate day of the Casa Copenhagen 6 red snooker championship organized jointly by the Gujarat State Billiards Association & the Sports club of Gujarat.
Up against the strong challenge of his PSPB compatriot, Brijesh Damani, Pankaj mixed his calculated and precision potting with some very intelligent safety tactics. Brijesh had no clue to counter the near perfect percentage snooker displayed by the Champion.
On the other table, Ishpreet Chadha of Maharashtra who is a complete snooker package was relentless in his onslaught as he outclassed his rival from Railways Sports Promotion Board based in Mumbai, Nitesh Madan to set up a Titanic clash in the snooker final on Wednesday afternoon.
A 57 points break earned Pankaj the first frame of the best of eleven frames semi final. Brijesh wrested one back by taking the second frame with the next two being shared by the players.
Came the cagey fifth one, Brijesh missed a good chance with only one red remaining and Pankaj completed the clearance of the red and colours to forge ahead. A classic break of 64 fetched Pankaj the sixth to consolidate his lead by 5-1 frames.
Brijesh executed a fine clearance break of 65 in the seventh to close the gap but it was here that Pankaj closed shutter.
Applying his tactical superiority in safety play, Pankaj just snatched the match on the eighth frame to win by 57-07,15-30, 39-11,57-16, 35-29, 64-00, 00-69, and 39-18 to enter the final.
On the other table, Nitesh. Madan of RSPB found the going very tough against Ishpreet as the latter kept up constant pressure to take three frames on the trot against one on the stage of the fourth frame.
Sharing the fifth and sixth, Ishpreet was potting with aplomb, controlling his cue ball adroitly to pocket the seventh frame for a crucial 5-2 frames lead needing just another frame to win.
Nitesh did well to snatch the eighth frame. However that limited success was nullified when Ishpreet outpotted Nitesh in the vital ninth frame to achieve victory by 35-24, 39-29, 01-58, 42-28, 43-00, 17-43, 42-03, 15-39 and 40-19 points, setting up the Titanic clash with Pankaj in what promises to be a very closely contested snooker final at 3 pm.
Meanwhile in the Ladies section, Vidya Pillai, a multi times national winner from Bengaluru romped home against her much younger city mate, Varsha Sanjeev without a bother while Amee Kamani of Madhya Pradesh had to wage a very tough fight before she could quell the rather strong challenge of the Pune based girl from Maharashtra.
In the Vidya- Varsha contest, one thought that the match would be a toss up between the two ladies but Vidya who is a role model for so many, was just on a high in her match with Varsha.
Vidya simply steam rolled her young opponent in four straight frames by 62-10, 58-16, 33-02 and 42-04 points to sail into the final.
Whereas the Amee- Aranxta encounter was a treat for the audience as both players exhibited their class, matching each other in potting as well as in safety play.
With both the lady cueists tied at three all after six frames, the seventh frame became a tense battle of attrition before Amee exhibited her superiority in potting under pressure to emerge a winner by 08-35, 47-19, 42-00, 07-53, 27-29, 34-14 and 43-13 points to set up a final showdown with her great friend Vidya which should be a humdinger of a finale.
In the matches for minor placings in Ladies, Anupama Ramachandran of Tamil Nadu emerged as the no. 5 player beating Keerath Bhandaal of Delhi in straight frames by 2-0 Keerath finished sixth .
Earlier Keerath beat Chitra Maghimairaj of Karnataka by 2-1 frames to relegate Chitra to seventh position while Revanna Uma Devi Nagaraj ended last on the eighth position.
In the Men’s category, Sourav Kothari beat Akshay Kumar by 3-2 frames and Pushpinder by 3-0 frames to finish fifth. Pushpinder finished sixth. Akshay ended up at seventh while Vijay Nichani finished as eighth.
Report 8
Even if the Men’s section of the Casa Copenhagen was attracting heightened excitement and tension, the Ladies section held the focus of the Casa Copenhagen 6 red snooker national championship here at the Sports club of Gujarat complex.
The eleventh day of the 13 day snooker carnival organized jointly by the Gujarat State Billiards Association & the Sports Club of Gujarat under the auspices of the Billiards & Snooker Federation Of India aroused a lot of interest, drama and snooker skills emanating from the high voltage matches on Monday.
Varsha Sanjeev, the high performing girl frm Karnataka was unshaken though she trailed her senior partner from Bengaluru, Chitra Maghimairaj, losing the first two frames of the best of five frames contest.
Chitra seemed to be on the ascendancy but Varsha got her act going to not only take the ensuing third and fourth frames but was right on top in the deciding fifth frame too to clinch the tie by 10-38, 23-46, 44-13, 37-15 and 55-19 points to March into the semi finals.
On the other table, Indore based International, Amee Kamani was waging a valiant battle against Veteran International from Bengaluru, Revanna Uma Devi Nagraj.
Uma was right on cue leading by two frames to one after the third frame.
Nevertheless, Amee struck good form here at this stage, potting with alacrity and assurance to not only win the fourth frame but also wrest the decisive final frame without much bother and sail into the semis.
National snooker champion, Vidya Pillai had no difficulty in her quarter final match against Delhi’s Keerath Bhandaal as she scripted a straight three frames victory by 64-05, 49-26 and 32-17 points.
Aranxta Sanchis of Maharashtra, the Pune based International was at the same time, on another table having a gala time as she easily won the first frame of her match with TamilNadu’ young star, Anupama Ramchandran.
However Anupama gave a tough fight to Aranxta in the second and third frame but failed to prevent her Senior rival from winning the two frames for a 47-00, 35-23 and 32-23 points victory and entry into the last four of the ladies competition.
Earlier on, in matches which finished late on the tenth night of the tournament, Keerath Bhandaal had blanked out Indira Gowda by 3-0 frames, Vidya had defeated R Uma devi by3-0 frames, and Anupama Ramchandran and Amee Kamani had recorded identical 3-1 victories over Chitra Maghimairaj and Aranxta Sanchis to complete the last eight line up in the ladies section.
Meanwhile in the Men’s section, showing his calibre and solid match temperament, the Golden Boy of Cue Sports, Pankaj Advani downed the only Professional star snooker player of the country, Aditya Mehta in seven frames in the best of nine quarter final tie which showcased the quality of the game of the two top notch cueists, the pride of the country.
Although it was Aditya who set the tone in the very first frame of the contest with a classy break of 65 to take the frame, Pankaj in a determined display of tight safety play mixed with precision potting wrested the next three frames on a trot to lead by 3-1 frames. Aditya got one back by winning the fifth frame but that was as far as he could go
Pankaj executed his tactical percentage game to a fault in an all most perfect manner.
Executing his strokes with deadly accuracy he snatched the sixth and seventh frames to win the contest by 00-65, 42-00, 37-31, 45-07, 05-48, 34-00 and 50-23 points and emerge victorious to enter the quarter finals to be played on Tuesday morning.
Pushpinder Singh, the present no. 4 in Indian snooker coasted to a well deserving seven frames victory over former Asian gold medalist in team event, his compatriot from RSPB, Malkeet Singh who seemed to be weary after his long 5 hours match with Rupesh Shah earlier.
Pushpinder appeared to be the more assured player in potting as well as in playing safe as he prevailed over Malkeet by 45-22, 34-13, 53-05, 67-04, 04-46, 11-27 and 49-13 points to set up a clash with Ishpreet Singh Chadha of Maharashtra.
Ishpreet registered an identical five frames to two victory over Varun Madan of Delhi beating him by 38-34, 40-28, 00-63, 33-26, 52-14, 08-25 and 51-01 points.
Akshay Kumar, the star player of Uttar Pradesh who finished as No. 1. In the India camp before the IBSF world 6 red snooker championship held last year in Turkey put paid to the hopes of the Telengana youngster, Himanshu Jain in eight grinding frames.
Akshay won by 40-07, 14-42, 37-05, 09-40, 50-20, 13-32, 45-06 and 46-18 points.
Akshay faces Pankaj Advani now.
In another match “Mr Style” The PSPB player from Kolkata, Sourav Kothari won his match against the RSPB player, Mohammad Husain in seven frames outplaying him by 15-27, 20-32, 51-01, 48-11, 61-00, 40-13 and 49-00 points to enter the last eight where he now plays another PSPB player based in Kolkata, Brijesh Damani.
Brijesh Damani won his match against Piyush Kushwaha of Madhya Pradesh by five frames to one in an almost one sided match which saw Brijesh take no chances against the aggressive Piyush.
In his over anxiety to get on with the game, Piyush over tried and Brijesh capitalized to secure the frames one by one, eventually winning the match with a degree of comfort at 49-27, 44-28, 31-13, 54-08, 05-56 and 43-06 points.
The last to qualify for the last eight stage was Delhi’s Nitesh Madan employed by the Central Railway in Mumbai. Nitesh beat his Delhi city mate, the present Indian snooker Master’s champion Anuj Uppal in six frames in another one sided encounter.
Nitesh beat Anuj by 49-16, 32-29, 36-08, 18-37, 00-40 and 47-40 points to face Tamil Nadu star, Vijay Nichani.
Vijay playing on the other table coming out unscathed in a nine frames scorcher with the local Gujarat hero, Dhvaj Haria.
At one stage Dhvaj was sitting pretty after pocketing the first three frames of the best of nine frames battle but Vijay, true to his name rallied back magnificently to stage a brilliant comeback and emerge on the top with a splendid victory over Dhvaj by 00-63, 11-56, 07-60, 34-23, 06-66, 48-14, 55-18, 61-00 and 39-01 frames.
Ishtmit Singh Malik
Media Coordinator,
BSFI. Net
Report 6
The Casa Copenhagen 6 red snooker national championship jointly organized by the Gujarat State Billiards Association & the Sports club of Gujarat under the auspices of the Billiards & Snooker Federation Of India had a colour to the proceedings as the LDies event also began along with the Main Draw of the Men’s section.
The Ladies have been drawn in two league groups to start with four qualifying from each group playing on a round – robin basis.
Promising Ishika Shah of MP based in Indore stArted off very well taking the first frame agInst Tamil Nadu champion, Anupama Ramchandran and was also poised for the second frame but a wrong choice of the available red, playing with the spider even when she had a chance to avail of a red available to be potted in the cente pocket brought her down fall as not only did Anupama snatch the se ond frame but she followed it up by wresting the third and fourth frame to win by 3-1 frames in the best of five frames battle at 22-33, 47-46, 41-00 and 60-06 points.
In another tie, indira Gowda of Karnataka took one frame off before going down to International lady player from MP,Mee Kamani by 17-55, 36-06, 44-09 and 00-61points.
Also taking off a frame from Pune based International, Aranxta Sanchis, Neeta Kothari of West Bengal went down fighting in four frames. Amee won by 55-17, 06-36, 44-09 and 61-00 points.
Neeta Sanghvi of Maharashtr was another player showing off a gutsy performance before losing to Karnataka International Revanna Uma Devi Nagraj who won by 22-49, 41-04, 49-08 and 51-18 points.
In other matches,
Vidya PillI beat Neeta Sanghvi by 3-1 frames.
Aranxta Sanchis beat Sanvi Shah by 3-1 frames.
Uma Devi beat Aanya Patel by 3-1 frames.
Amee Kamani beat Neeta Kothari by 3-0 frames.
Varsha Sanjeev beat indira Gowda by 3-0 frames.
Keerath Bhandaal beat Neeta Kothari by 3-0 frames.
Chitra Maghimairaj beat Neeta Sanghvi by 3-0 frames.
Vidya Pillai beat Aanya Patel by 3-0 frames.
Vidya PillI beat Anupama Ramchandran by 3-0 frames.
Meanwhile in the Men’s section some interesting matches were witnessed as the Main draw league matches commenced.
Indore based MP cueist, ketan Chawla created a flutter as he downed fancied Sundeep Gulati of Delhi in seven frames winning the seven frames engrossed by 35-30, 27-38, 19-40, 44-11, 34-03, 14-43 and ₹6-18 points.
However Sundeep’s state mate, former 2014 six red champion, Varun Madan was right on cue as he quelled the challenge of Manav Panchal of Maharashtra winning by 41-20, 05-36, 00-35, 29-28, 68-00, 20-34 and 51-13. The turning point of the match when Varun compiled a well crafted break of 68 in the fifth frame to gain a vital lead.
Another former champion ., Shivam Arora also was in great form as he dkwned Dhruv Sitwala in six frames by 17-34, 39-00, 16-33, 44-10, 45-10 and 38-08 points.
In other matches:-
Rupesh Shah beat Rafath Habib by 4-1 frames.
Alok Kumar beat Dhruv Agarwal by 4-1 frames.
Himanshu Jain beat Paras Gupta by 4-1 frames.
Pushpinder Singh beat ML LKshman by 4-2 frames.
Vinay Nichani beat Joy Mehra by 4-1 frames.
Hrithik Jain beat Malkeet Singh by 4-2 frames.
Karthick BC beat jaison Malhotra by 4-2 frames.
Shahbaz Adil Khan beat S Shri krishna by 4-2 frames.
R Girish beat Het Patel by 4-2 frames.
Siddarth Parikh beat Nilesh Chauhan by 4-3 frames.
Akshay Kumar beat Hasan Badami by 4-2 frames.
Kamal Chawla beat MMohd. Husain Khan by 4-3 frames.
anuj Uppal beat Abhishek Ahuja by 4-1 frames.
Subrat Das beat Soubhagya Behra by 4-2 frames.
Faisla Khan beat Saad Sayed by 4-1 frames.
Abhimanyu Gandhi beat K Srinu by 4-3 frames.
Ishtmit Singh Malik
Media Coordinator,
6 red snooker nationals
Report 5
The Casa Copenhagen 6 red snooker national championship 2020 jointly organized by the Gujarat State Billiards Association & the Sports Club of Gujarat under the auspices of the Billiards & Snooker Federation Of India even as it entered the sixth day of the 13 days snooker extravaganza saw the advent of the lading lady cueists of the country at the premises of the Sports Club of Gujarat here on Thursday.
Besides the pretty damsels of the “green Baize ” being seen in action on the day, this also happens to be the day when all the 40 qualifiers from the double elimination qualifying stage of the national competition of the limited edition of snooker will be decided by late evening.
From the contests of the match to qualify section, played from noon time today some high quality action was witnessed to the satisfaction of the appreciative audience gathered to watch good snooker.
Host state’s, Oswald Massey was one of the heroes in the process of qualifying for the last 64 players main round of the competition. Oswald up against the talented youngster from his very state, Johnson Narsidani was equal to the task and more as quelled the challenge of Johnson in six frames of the best of seven frames enounter winning by 45-11, 18-54, 40-23, 05-39,26-18 and 32-11 points in a match which was marked for its ” safety first ” tactics by both the cueists as they seem to know each other’s style of play well. Eventually, Oswald was the more adroit in potting effectively at crucial stages of the match to emerge victorious and qualify for the main draw.
Dhruv Agarwal of West Bengal was engaged in a tough battle of attrition with Siddarth Parikh of RSPB in a match which lasted the full distance of seven frames before Dhruv showed exemplary temperament to remain focussed even when there was a greater pressure situation, finally winning the longish tie by 01-39, 31-39, 44-08, 35-06, 32-22, 28-39 and 42-30 points to also enter the main round stage.
Suraj Rathi of Maharashtra also made it to the main round with a fine victory over Arvind Kumar of RSPB another seven frames contest. With both players tied at 3-3 it was Suraj who broke the shackles to display flowing strokes in the clinching decider potting with consummate ease to down Arvind by 43-18, 41-08, 45-22, 37-40, 01-38, 17-42 and 73-08 points. Arvind trailing by 0-3 frames rallied brilliantly to take the next thrre frames on the trot to restore parity at 3-3 but when it mattered , his nerve mattered most, he failed to deliver and Suraj capitalized well on the chances offered to win.
Parthiv Jhaveri of Gujarat played out a stellar game of snooker while getting the better of his state mate, Purvang Patel in six frames to also make the main round grade winning by 41-01, 44-01, 35-22, 16-33, 33-00, 00-41 and 40-01 points.
Het Patel also of the host state of Gujarat continued to impress as he toppled Abhinav Sharma of Punjab in five frames to join the other victors of the day in the main round. Het came out on top by 50-38, 53-18, 32-29, 28-53 and 40-13 points.
Abhishek Ahuja of Delhi proved too strong for Satyam Shivhare of MP as he also registered an emphatic victory in six frames by 32-31, 54-17, 21-41, 36-20, 23-29 and 40-10 points to qualify for the last 64 main round .
Subrat Das of Odisha was engaged in a well contested seven frames tie with Bhadresh Panchal of Gujarat before snatching victory by 28-23, 23-29, 02-33, 00-45, 45-14, 39-30 and 32-08 frames to also qualify for the main rounds. Bhadresh who plays a open game missed some key shots in the decider and Subrat made the best of the situation to emerge out unscathed.
Hasan Badami of Maharashtra was in good form as he unsettled Udit Rai of MP in four straight frames to make the main round stage winning by 34-29, 52-02, 42-12 and 47-27 points.
Even so, the one player to really steal the show in the process of qualifying for the main stage was Joy Mehra of Punjab as he trounced Taaha Khan Of Maharashtra in five frames by 20-32, 32-10, 41-00m 41-25 and 54-40 points.
Joy who plays with a ‘no nonsense “style was extremely impressive as he came back strongly
in the second frame after losing the first to level scores at 1-1 in the best of seven frames match.
A steady approach, fluent cueing, uncluttered planning of strategy and the immaculate execution of his plan were the hall marks of this seasoned campaigner as he rattled his younger opponent.
Taaha should have won the fifth frame but he wilted under the pressure built up by Joy as the victor had no difficulty to come out twice from a position where needing snookers, not only he forced Taaha to give penalty points , but also clear the needed colour balls from the yellow to the pink ball to complete the rout.
In other matches 
Partiv Jhaveri beat Shoumik Mistry by 4-0 frames.
Hrithik Jain beat Sanchit Gupta by 4-2 frames.
Het Patel Beat Rohit Ravindran by 4-0 frames.
Ranveer Singh Marwah beat Ayush Mittal by 4-0 frames.
Soubhagya Behra beat Himanshu Patel by 4-0 frames.
Midhun M beat Mohsin Achhava by 4-2 frames.
Bhadresh Panchal beat Rovin D’Souza by 4-3 frames in a cliff hanger.
Sumehr Mago beat Sanket Mutha by 4-2 frames.
Abhimanyu Gandhi beat George Fernandez by 4-1 frames.
Hasan Badami beat Monu Chaudhary 4-2 frames.
Saad Sayed beat Mohd. Shoaib Khan by 4-2 frames.
Pandurangiah beat Atit Shah by 4-1 frames.
Arvind kumar beat Kashyap Shah by 4-1 frames.
Anish Parikh beat Shreyash Pednekar by 4-1 frames.
Taaha Khan Beat Rajat Khaneja by 4-3 frames in a see-saw battle.
Lakshman beat Chintamani Jhadav by 4-1 frames.
Ishtmit Singh Malik
Media Coordinator,
6 red snooker nationals
Report 1
The Casa Copenhagen 6 red snooker national championship jointly organized by the Gujarat State Billiards Association & the Sports Club Of Gujarat under the auspices of the Billiards & Snooker Federation Of India which is being played here at the Sports club of Gujarat complex as it entered its fourth day saw the advent of unheralded players take centre stage.
If seen from sideways, one may mistake him as the Indian version of a Sumo wrestler, but giving a pleasing display of his prowess in snooker, potting the balls with cracking precision, Rishi Khosla of Punjab making light of his heavy weight, was a treat to watch as he overcame Gujarat youngster, Siddhant Patel down from 0-2 frames rallying well to win the 6 red snooker battle in six frames which extended to 130 minutes.
Rishi emerging victorious by 18-37, 11-25, 35-13, 38-03, 28-27 and 44-16 points in a double elimination match of the losers side of the draw.
Local cueist, Oswald Massey was another player to impress as he won two matches on the trot. First he surmounted the tough challenge of West Bengal player, Aamer Husain in six frames by 26-18, 65-00, 23-47, 31-24, 11-58, and 35-01 chalking up a solid break of 61 in the second frame, and then up against his state mate from Gujarat, Hemendra Jadeja, he came out on top by four frames to two by 32-20, 60-01, 45-06, 21-40, 01-40 and 50-18 points.
In a very well contested seven frame affair, Gujarat player, Dhruv Patel overcame the stiff fight put up by Gaurav Malhotra of Haryana before cruising home four frames to three by 42-14, 47-51, 54-42, 41-13, 40-47, 21-35 and 50-09 points to move up in his league group.
Dhruv led by 3-1 frames but Gaurav came back strongly to pocket the fifth and sixth frames restoring parity at 3 frames all.
Here Dhruv came up with a show of some very good potting to outpoint his rival and win.
Jharkhand’s Snehanshu was another player to score a well merited four frames to three win over Ratul Pambahar in a tussle which saw a intense contest till the sixth frame.
Snehanshu unleashing some fine long pots in the deciding frame to subdue Rutul winning the tie by 18-28, 32-23, 50-25, 37-15, 12-42, 29-38 and 40-07 points.
Rohit Ravindran of Karnataka was another notable victor of the day when he prevailed over Maharashtra player Abhishek Bora by 31-02, 20-32, 37-00, 51-06, 15-26 and 45-08 points while Mittal Patel of Gujarat bowed out a four frames to two loser against Saad Sayed of Maharashtra by 12-45, 36-22, 31-09, 10-52, 24-26 and 21-48 points. Saad kept his poise when under pressure on the colours stage of the sixth frame to come out unscathed.
In other matches of the day :-
Het Patel of Gujarat beat Ayush Sinha of Bihar, a BSFI entry by 4-0 frames.
Siddarth Patni of Madhya Pradesh beat Rajiv Sahni of Gujarat by 4-1 frames.
Mohsin Chhava of Gujarat beat Varun J Kumar of Karnataka by 4-2 frames.
Abhi Patel of Gujarat beat Shivam Madan of Uttarakhand by 4-0 frames.
Anand Sheth of Gujarat beat Yateenhraj of Tamil Nadu by 4-0 frames.
Mitthun. M of Kerala beat Dhawal Makwana of Gujarat by 4-1 frames.
Madhav Joshi of Maharashtra beat Rohit T of Karnataka by 4-1 frames.
Vikrant Magoo of Punjab beat Gunjan Patel of Gujarat by 4-0 frames.
Yogesh Sharma of Maharashtra beat Honey Shah of Gujarat by 4-0 frames.
Pandurangiah of RSPB beat Ayan Shah of Gujarat by 4-0 frames compiling good breaks of 50 in the first and a 41 in the fourth.
Shreyash P. of Goa beat Sharan D of Punjab by 4-1 frames.
Anish Parikh of Jharkhand beat Neeraj Vasava of Gujarat by 4-1 frames.
Mitang Sono of Gujarat beat Omkar Naik of Goa by 4-0 frames.
Anand Tiwari of Uttar Pradesh beat Kamal Kerera of Gujarat by 4-0 frames.
Tushar Sahay of Gujarat beat Srijan Singh of Uttar Pradesh by 4-3 frames.
Naimesh Jhadav of Gujarat beat Raunaq Vajirani of Gujarat by 4-2 frames.
Ranjit Mannava of TElengana beat Vipul of Telengana by 4-1 frames.
Ishtmit Singh Malik
Media Coordinator
6 red snooker nationals
For, Gujarat State Billiards Association,
Abhishek J Shah
President
Meherzad Bhagwagar
Hon. Treasurer
Amee Kamani Bags the 2020 Senior Billiards Title
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.
