Indian games wrap, July 30: Advani, Sitwala to highlight in Western India Billiards and Snooker Title

Numerous time title holder Pankaj Advani and the ongoing Asian and public billiards champion Dhruv Sitwala will be among the contenders at the Western India Billiards and Snooker Title beginning here on August 3.

The rivalries will highlight three classifications: senior billiards, senior snooker and junior snooker.

It will likewise include the ongoing public snooker champion Sourav Kothari, Aditya Mehta, Laxman Rawat, Rupesh Shah, Dhvaj Haria, Alok Kumar, Siddharth Parikh and S Srikrishna.

The senior snooker champion will get an award cash of Rs 2 lakh and the second place will get Rs 1.2 lakh.

The senior billiards victor will get Rs 1 lakh and the next in line will get Rs 50,000. The victor and sprinter up in the lesser classification will get a measure of 40,000 and Rs 20,000 separately.

“There will likewise be prizes in the senior occasions for players who arrive at the last 16 and money grants for the top breaks,” said the coordinators in a delivery, adding that the competition is coordinated by Khar Gymkhana alongside the Billiards and Snooker Relationship of Maharashtra (BSAM) and the Billiards and Snooker Organization of India

In the wake of securing the billiards title, Chennai’s Anupama Ramachandran (MCC) raised the stakes to overcome L. Shruti (Amigos) 3-1 for the snooker title in the TNBSA 40th Tamil Nadu State-positioning billiards and snooker title for ladies at the PBSA here on Tuesday.

Shruti began well to take the initial casing with a break of 23. In any case, Anupama, an Asian snooker champion, figured out how to win a distinctly challenged second edge on a repudiate. From there on, she controlled the following two casings with little breaks to wrest the title.

Prior, Neena Praveen (TNBSA) scored a 2-0 win over Sreenidhi Anbarasan (Mates) for the third space.