Reigning National champion Alok Kumar, despite a below par performance in the selection trials, made it to the Indian snooker team for the Macau Asian Indoor Games and the IBSF World Championships.

Alok will be joined by Yasin Merchant and Manan Chandra for the Macau bash. While the first two are confirmed for the World Championship, Cha-ndra’s participation will be known later. On the final day of trials, Chandra defeated Merchant 4-2.

Final standings: Overall: Alok Kumar 1; Yasin Merchant 2; Manan Chandra 3; Rupesh Shah 4; Kamal Chawla 5; D Rajkumar 6; Pankaj Advani 7; Sarang Shroff 8.

Camp: Manan 1; K Chawla 2; R Shah 3; Y Merchant 4; A Kumar 5; D Rajkumar 6.

Results: R Shah bt D Rajkumar 4-1 (85-40, 84-22, 65-24, 46-67, 60-12); M Chandra bt Y Merchant 4-2 (93-15, 66-44, 23-104, 66-9, 59-66, 63-39); K Chawla bt D Rajkumar 4-1 (66-79, 78-20, 62-42, 52-12, 75-42); Y Merchant bt A Kumar 4-3 (67-76, 101-08, 139-0, 14-75, 83-1, 42-95, 76-36).