<p>India's Arantxa Sanchis continued on her winning streak in the preliminary league of the IBSF World snooker championship here Sunday when she defeated Polish player Dalia Alska 3-0 for her fourth win.<br /><br /></p>.<p>So far, Sanchis, the 23-year old from Pune, has lost only two frames that put her on top in Group E with an excellent chance to progress to the knock-out stage.<br /><br />Another Indian player Chitra Magimairajan managed to register her first win of the tournament after three outings when she defeated Nastya Toumilovitch of Belarus 3-0 to finally come out of a losing rut.<br /><br />However, there were some disappointments for India when Varsha Sanjeev and Neena Praveen lost their matches. Varsha went down to former World champion Ng On Yee of Hong Kong 1-3 while Amornrat Uamduang of Thailand had no problem in defeating Neena 3-0.<br /><br />Amornrat produced two breaks of 56 and 59 points in first two frames to shock Neena. By the time Neena could recover, it was already time to shake hands.<br />There were no Indian casualties in the Men's section as all three Indian players Manan Chandra, Brijesh Damani and Shahbaaz Adil Khan won their respective matches comfortably.<br /><br />Chandra has won all his three matches while Damani and Khan have lost one in four outings in their respective Groups.<br /><br />In the Masters category, Syed Saleem from India once again failed to win the decider frame and he lost to Bernard Ballestra of France 2-3 in a tightly contested match. However, Nigel Lazar registered a good win Peter Bertens of Netherlands 3-0.<br /></p>
<p>India's Arantxa Sanchis continued on her winning streak in the preliminary league of the IBSF World snooker championship here Sunday when she defeated Polish player Dalia Alska 3-0 for her fourth win.<br /><br /></p>.<p>So far, Sanchis, the 23-year old from Pune, has lost only two frames that put her on top in Group E with an excellent chance to progress to the knock-out stage.<br /><br />Another Indian player Chitra Magimairajan managed to register her first win of the tournament after three outings when she defeated Nastya Toumilovitch of Belarus 3-0 to finally come out of a losing rut.<br /><br />However, there were some disappointments for India when Varsha Sanjeev and Neena Praveen lost their matches. Varsha went down to former World champion Ng On Yee of Hong Kong 1-3 while Amornrat Uamduang of Thailand had no problem in defeating Neena 3-0.<br /><br />Amornrat produced two breaks of 56 and 59 points in first two frames to shock Neena. By the time Neena could recover, it was already time to shake hands.<br />There were no Indian casualties in the Men's section as all three Indian players Manan Chandra, Brijesh Damani and Shahbaaz Adil Khan won their respective matches comfortably.<br /><br />Chandra has won all his three matches while Damani and Khan have lost one in four outings in their respective Groups.<br /><br />In the Masters category, Syed Saleem from India once again failed to win the decider frame and he lost to Bernard Ballestra of France 2-3 in a tightly contested match. However, Nigel Lazar registered a good win Peter Bertens of Netherlands 3-0.<br /></p>