Times Inspiring Men, Maharashtra 2021 Award.

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There’s nothing like being appreciated for your efforts!
We’re extremely proud to congratulate our very own president and also the president of BSAM Mr. Rajan Khinvasara for winning the Times Inspiring Men, Maharashtra 2021 Award, for his impeccable contribution towards cuesports in India!!!

Many Congratulations on such a milestone!

Pondicherry Cue Sports Association

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Pondicherry Cue Sports Association
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Pondicherry – 605 001

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Amee Kamani of Madhya Pradesh defends her National 6Reds title.

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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

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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.

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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.