Naveen Kumar posts huge win

KS Naveen Kumar posted a facile 5-0 win over Kevin Lambastya in their round-of-32 encounter to march into the quarterfinals of the 8-Ball pool State-ranking tournament at the KSBA hall on Wednesday.

Promising youngster Nikhil Pise also scored a lop-sided win, blanking Manish P 5-0 while R Santosh also beat Ninad Pise by the same margin.

Results: Round of 32: KS Naveen Kumar bt Kevin Lambastya 5-0; Nikhil Pise bt Manish P 5-0; R Santosh bt Ninad Pise 5-0; K Niranjan bt L Nagaraj 5-3; D Raj Kumar bt Manjunath NG 5-4; Eugin Victor bt Maharishi Rajnikanth 5-0; T Srinivas bt Partibhan 5-0; Michael Rebello bt Shams Khan 5-3; Pratik Prasad bt KR Srinivas 5-3; Sufiyan Ahmed bt Supreeth YG 5-4; Sean Davis bt Vivan Sequira 5-2; Aditya Navalkar bt Pranav Prabhakar 5-3; M Prabhakar bt M Natraj 5-1; Jasim Tawin bt ML Lakshman 5-4; Anand HE bt V Anand 5-2; Pramod Kumar Jain bt Ravi Varma 5-4.
League results: Group ‘A’: Aditya Navalkar bt Manjunath NG 5-0.
Group ‘C’: D Raj Kumar bt Krishna Bhat 5-0; Vivan Sequra bt Krishna B 5-1; Raj K bt Vivan S 5-1.
Group ‘D’: M Natraj bt Anand Paul 5-4; K Niranjan bt Natraj 5-4; Niranjan bt Anand P 5-3.
 ‘E’: Pratik Prasad bt Divij Kadde 5-3; Anand HE bt Divij K 5-1; Anand bt Pratik P 5-2; Sean Davis bt Devesh Dhanuka 5-0; Sean D bt Jasim Tawin 5-1; Jasim T bt Devesh D 5-0.
Group ‘F’: KS Naveen Kumar bt Shubham Bishnoi 5-0; Maharishi Rajnikant bt Shubham B 5-3; Naveen K bt Maharishi R 5-0.  
Group ‘G’: Ninad Pise bt Fenil DH 5-0, M Prabhakar bt Fenil 5-0, Prabhakar bt Ninad P 5-2.
Group ‘H’: P Manish bt Prince VK 5-0; R Santosh bt Prince 5-0; Santosh bt Manish 5-2.