The Casa Copenhagen 6 red snooker national championship 2020 jointly organized by the Gujarat State Billiards Association & the Sports Club of Gujarat Ltd under the auspices of the Billiards & Snooker Federation Of India which is currently in progress here at the Sports club of Gujarat premises witnessed two high quality breaks in the limited version of snooker on Sunday.
The first to break the ice block of a seventy plus points break was the PSPB star from the city of Kolkata, Brijesh Damani even as he unfurled his class on the ” Green baize” In a match against Raunaq Vajirani of Gujarat as he outclassed him in four straight frames winning with consummate ease by 55-08, 40-34, 46-09 and 72-00 points in a double elimination league outing.
Brijesh having taken an unassailable lead of three frames to nil touched peak form to pocket all the 6 red balls covering it with continual pots of the required colours following on by potting the entire colour sequence from yellow to black for a break of 72 on way to his fine victory.
But former 6 red national championship, Shivam Arora, the mercurial player who is based in Pune bettered the performance of Brijesh by one point in his match with Ranjit Mannava of Telengana when leading by an identical margin of 3-0 frames finally touched his nadir to deliver a break of 73 in the fourth frame, clearing tthe entire gamut of 6 reds, covering it with the required colours and then sweeping the table by pocketing all the balls from the yellow to the black at the colours stage chipping in a superb 73 points break.
Shivam won by 47-24, 29-09, 32-24 and 73-00 points to move up in his league group.
Harpreet Singh of Delhi playing purposefully in a show of good concentration, trounced a tough opponent in Aamer Husain of West Bengal in another match.
With the score tied at two frames all after the fourth frame in the best of seven frames match, Harpreet matched all the moves of Aamer, whether it be the tactics of safety play or it maybe prowess in potting, keeping his head down, fully focussed on the job in hand to eventually win by 34-21, 13-39, 10-56, 31-13, 32-13 and 40-20 points to come out on top in the closely contested encounter.
Veteran Kan Kan Shamsi of Uttar Pradesh had to use all his experience to get the better of the Gujarat boy, Jenil Patel In six well fought out frames. With the score at par after four frames at two all, Kan Kan played good percentage snooker to quell the challenge of Jenil who failed to cope up to the pressure of the occasion, wilting under at the end of the match.
Pony tailed, strong potting machine from Maharashtra, Manav Panchal had to strain his nerve, experience and his knowledge of snooker before he could overcome Ravish Arora of Punjab. With the match evenly poised at three frames all, Manav finally struck form in the deciding seventh frame to put paid to the hopes of his rival winning by 41-19, 41-20, 18-28, 00-45, 25-39, 51-00 and 56-17 points.
Shoaib ur Rehman from Tamil Nadu showed a lot of grit and determination in the process of recording a fine 4-2 frames victory over local boy, Hemant Jadeja putting him out by 07-38, 45-27, 36-13, 24-28, 40-21 and 30-07 points. It was an evenly matched contest even though Shoaib proved that he was the better player when he got all his crucial pots in the vital stages of the tussle.
In another match, Divyansh Shukla of Madhya Pradesh accounted for another local competitor from Gujarat, Sahil Radhani beating him in six frames by 37-39, 39-45, 40-08, 31-17, 42-17 and 52-18 points.
In other matches of the day:-
Dhruv Sitwala of PSPB beat Ayush Sinha of Bihar by 4-1 frames;
Nitesh Madan of Delhi beat Paresh Choksi of Gujarat by 4-1 frames with a break of 50 in the third frame;
Soubhagya Behra of Odisha beat Rinkesh Pathak by 4-0 frames;
S. Shri Krishna of PSPB based in Chennai beat Ayush Mital of Uttar Pradesh by 4-0 frames;
Siddarth Parikh of RSPB beat Prashant Soni of Gujarat by 4-0 frames;
Rutul Pambhar of Gujarat beat his state mate Kavin Shah by 4-1 frames;
Dhruv Agarwal of West Bengal beat Naumil Patel of Gujarat by 4-0 frames;
Ketan Chawla of Madhya Pradesh beat Himanshu Patel of Gujarat by 4-0 frames;
Faisal Khan of RSPB beat Abhishek Bora of Maharashtra by 4-0 frames;
Rohan Sakalkar of Maharashtra beat Het Patel of Gujarat by 4-1 frames;
Dhruv Singh of Telengana beat Dhawal Makwana if Gujarat by 4-1 frames;
Sanchit Gupta of Delhi beat Rohit Tirkarradi of Karnataka by 4-1 frames;
Rupesh Shah of Gujarat beat Madhav Joshi of Maharashtra by 4-0 frames;
Hrithik Jain of Madhya Pradesh beat Kaval Panchal of Gujarat by 4-0 frames.
Ishtmit Singh Malik
Media Coordinator
2020 six red snooker nationals
