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
