Germain Girish scored a hard-fought 3-2 (51-56, 62-33, 56-63, 69-40, 63-30) win over Mandeep Singh in the Junior snooker semifinal league of the Indian Oil Servo State-ranking billiards and snooker championship at the KSBA hall on Monday.
Results:
Junior snooker (semifinal league): Nikhil Pise bt M L Lakshman 3-0 (48-42, 48-27, 77-25); Germain Girish bt Mandeep Singh 3–2 (51-56, 62-33, 56-63, 69-40, 63-30).
Knockout round: M L Lakshman bt P Manish 3-1 (72-15, 48-53, 70-3, 60-51); Mandeep Singh bt Arjun Mehta 3-1 (68-43, 46-40, 27-41, 60-26); Germain Girish bt Asif Altaf Jaffery 3-0 (41-22, 67-31, 65-8); Nikhil Pise bt Atif Altaf Jaffery 3-0 (65-18, 69-25, 75-17).
Senior billiards (qualifying): Md Ali bt Srihari Parthasarthy 3-0 (100-44, 100-22, 100-62); Jasim Tawin bt Pramod Raj 3-0 (101-66, 101-45, 106-33); L Nagaraj bt Joginder Singh 3-1 (102-72, 102-55, 36-102, 100-97); K S Naveen Kumar bt G Nischal 3-0 (100-36, 100-48, 102-38); Bharath Chugh bt Ekalavya 3-0 (100-33, 100-57, 102-44); S N Bharath Kumar bt Y G Supreet 3-0 (101-53, 100-53, 100-36);
G Vishwanath bt R Santosh 3-2 (86-100, 100-71, 87-100, 101-30, 101-88); Anand H E bt L J Saldhana 3-2 (63-100, 95-102, 101-26, 101-87, 101-67); M L Lakshman bt Satish Kulkarni 3-0 (100-16, 100-27, 100-19); Suffiyan Ahmed bt Ninad Pise 3-1 (100-62, 100-29, 87-100, 100-56); Chetan S bt H S Neelakanta 3-1 (100-54, 45-100, 103-94, 100-87); V K Sadarangani bt P Dinakar 3-1 (100-83, 76-100, 100-11, 100-98); Michael Rebello bt N Praveen Rao 3-0 (100-3, 100-49, 100-46); Nikhil Pise bt Rohit Ravindran 3-1 (24-100, 100-52, 100-54, 100-21); B S Suresh bt Shams Khan 3-0 (100-86, 101-55, 101-32).
