Bhaskar in final qualifying round

B Bhaskar comfortably saw off Arun’s challenge 3-0 to ease into the fifth and final round of qualifying in the Karnataka State ranking snooker tournament here at the KSBA on Wednesday.

After Bhaskar came through against Sridhar C 3-1 (73-28, 51-61, 81-1, 93-0), he went one better and blanked Arun 75-16, 63-33 and 61-22 to progress. Mundir Sherazi reached the fifth round but in differenct circustances.

After edging past Kanik Raj 3-1, his fourth round opponent Sunil Nagrik, gave a walkover which enabled Sherazi to advance. All the fifth round matches will take place on Thursday.
Results: (Qualifying rounds) Fourth round: B Bhaskar bt Arun 3-0; Minhaj bt Aditya Singh 3-1; .S Naveen Kumar bt Suffyan Ahmed 3-1; Nikhil Pise bt Prabhakar M 3-2; R Santosh bt Kartick BC 3-2; Madhu Chandrabt Kunal TN 3-0; Rohan M  bt Kushal Aggarwal 3-1; Sheetal Kumar bt Joginder Singh 3-0; Kartick R bt Anil Kumar H 3-1; Deepak A bt  Sandip Patil 3-0; D Raj Kumar bt Nadeem Azeez 3-1; Majid Khan bt HD Vareesh 3-1; ML Lakshan bt Hemanth Kumar S 3-0; Mundir Sherazi bt Sunil Nagrik via a walkover.

Third round: Arun Pillai bt Arjun Mehta 3-1; B Bhaskar bt Sridhar C 3-1; Madhuchandra bt Rupesh ST 3-2; Kunal TN bt Rakesh 3-2; Kartheek  BL bt Aman Bajaj 3-2; D Rajkumar bt Kushal Chandrakar 3-1; Sheetal Kumar bt T Rajnish 3-0; Joginder Singh bt Manjunath 3-1; Anil Kumar H bt Syed Tayyeb 3-1; Kartick R bt Kshitj Garg 3-2; Hemath Kumar bt Girish PL 3-2; ML Lakshman bt Md Azhar 3-1; Sunil Nagraik bt Sridhar Manjnath 3-1; Mundir Sherazi bt Kanik Raj 3-1; Veeresh bt Kirees HR 3-1; Majid Khan bt Harish G 3-1; Nadeem Azeez bt Sajid Khan 3-0; Sean Davis bt A Santosh Kumar 3-0; Sandeep Patil bt Anil Kumar B 3-0; Vinay Katrela bt V Anand 3-0.