Advani posts easy win

Chandra, Mehta too make squad for Asian Indoors

At the selection camp here on the final day of snooker action, Advani posted a thumping 4-0 (72-17, 82-1, 72-35, 86-14) victory over Chandra to finish on top of the overall rankings.

Despite the loss, Chandra ended runner-up, while Mehta, who completed his engagements on the green baize on Thursday itself, finished third.

Veteran Geet Seethi started with a 3-0 victory over Sourav Kothari in billiards camp.

DH News Service

Results: Men: Snooker: Brijesh Damani bt Sourav Kothari 4-1 (65-60, 59-19, 45 (45)-75 (56), 76 (59)-10, 94 (54)-23); Pankaj Advani bt Manan Chandra 4-0 (72 (72)-17, 82 (24, 41)-1, 72 (58)-35 (22), 86 (56, 30)-14); Kamal Chawla bt Shahbaaz Adil Khan 4-3 (57 (47)-46, 2-100 (80), 93 (42, 25)-35 (22), 66 (33, 27)-52 (32), 00-92 (30, 30, 32), 9-71 (34, 37), 97 (69)-9).

Overall ranking: P Advani 1; M Chandra 2; Aditya Mehta 3; B Damani 4; K Chawla 5; S Kothari 6; SA Khan 7.

Masters snooker: Syed Habib bt Nadeem Azeez 3-2 (35-69, 37-71, 53-52, 57-24, 57-22); K Ranjan bt V Anand 3-0 (65-53, 74-49, 68-3); Prabhakar bt L Nagaraj 3-2 (32-44, 54-47, 52-47, 31-63, 58-56).

Billiards: Geet Sethi bt Sourav Kothari 3-0 (100-2, 102-4, 101-37); B Bhaskar bt Dhruv Sitwala 3-1 (25-104, 101-53, 100-21, 101-7).

Women: Snooker: Meenal Thakur bt Neena Praveen 3-2 (29-6, 38-1, 16-35, 12-33, 44-21); Chitra Magimairaj bt Meenal T 3-0 (33-12, 35-23, 46-16); Neena P bt Neeta Sanghvi 3-2 (39 (22)-8, 33-32, 30-54, 34-39, 31-18); Anuja Chandra bt Sangeetha Hemchand 3-1 (56 (20)-6, 32-4, 28-38, 30-28); Vidya Pillai bt Suniti Damani 3-0 (32-14, 27-15, 35 (25)-2); Vidya Pillai bt Neeta Sanghvi 3-0 (37-16, 46-15, 29-4); Anuja Chandra bt Meenal Thakur 3-0 (36-12, 28-19, 38-1); Neena Praveen bt Suniti Damani 3-1 (50-14, 23-43, 38-8, 26-24); Chitra Magimairaj bt Sangeetha Hemchand 3-0 (30-16, 39-14, 35-09).