<p> In a not-so-good start to his World Billiards Championship campaign, Indian ace Pankaj Advani lost his opening game against defending champion Peter Gilchrist but later made up with two straight wins, here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Former champion Advani lost his way after winning the first two frames to go down 2-3 against the Singaporean ace in a keen battle.<br /><br />Advani, however, ouplayed Adian Murray and Brain Harvey with a 3-0 scoreline respectively.Former Asian Billiards champion Alok Kumar had a clinical day winning all his matches 3-0.Ahmedabad cueist Dhvaj Haria also won all his matches, losing only a frame. <br /><br />All Indians in the fray cruised along with easy wins in the league stages and are half way through to qualifying for the last-32. <br /><br />The World Championship, which started on Monday, has invited 55 entries from eight countries with cueists having been divided in to 11 groups of five each.<br /><br />Results (150-up, Indians only): Peter Gilchrist (Sin) bt Pankaj Advani 3-2 (5-150 (101), 48-150 (89), 150 (107) –108 (62), 150 (75) -43, 150 (83) –97 (55); B Bhaskar bt Christopher Taylor (Eng) 3-0; D Rajkumar bt Todd Hayward (Aus) 3-2; Jaiveer Dhingra bt Arthur Winn (Eng) 3-0; Dhvaj Haria bt Gaye Jones (Eng) 3-0; Ashok Shandilya bt Mark Hill (Eng) 3-0; Alok Kumar (Ind) 3 bt Peter Atkinson (Eng) 3-0; Sourav Kothari bt Devendra Joshi 3-2; Siddharth Parikh bt Eddie Fielding (Eng) 3-0; S Venkateswaran bt Adam Clarke (Eng) 3-0; Dhruv Sitwala bt Jonathan Marwood (Eng) 3-0; Rupesh Shah bt Carl Walter Steiner (Aut) 3-0; Arun Agrawal bt Sushrut Pandia 3-1; Arun Agrawal bt Phil Davis (Eng) 3-0; David Causier (Eng) bt Aditya Agrawal 3-1; V Subramanian bt Jamie Barker (Eng) 3-2.</p>
<p> In a not-so-good start to his World Billiards Championship campaign, Indian ace Pankaj Advani lost his opening game against defending champion Peter Gilchrist but later made up with two straight wins, here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Former champion Advani lost his way after winning the first two frames to go down 2-3 against the Singaporean ace in a keen battle.<br /><br />Advani, however, ouplayed Adian Murray and Brain Harvey with a 3-0 scoreline respectively.Former Asian Billiards champion Alok Kumar had a clinical day winning all his matches 3-0.Ahmedabad cueist Dhvaj Haria also won all his matches, losing only a frame. <br /><br />All Indians in the fray cruised along with easy wins in the league stages and are half way through to qualifying for the last-32. <br /><br />The World Championship, which started on Monday, has invited 55 entries from eight countries with cueists having been divided in to 11 groups of five each.<br /><br />Results (150-up, Indians only): Peter Gilchrist (Sin) bt Pankaj Advani 3-2 (5-150 (101), 48-150 (89), 150 (107) –108 (62), 150 (75) -43, 150 (83) –97 (55); B Bhaskar bt Christopher Taylor (Eng) 3-0; D Rajkumar bt Todd Hayward (Aus) 3-2; Jaiveer Dhingra bt Arthur Winn (Eng) 3-0; Dhvaj Haria bt Gaye Jones (Eng) 3-0; Ashok Shandilya bt Mark Hill (Eng) 3-0; Alok Kumar (Ind) 3 bt Peter Atkinson (Eng) 3-0; Sourav Kothari bt Devendra Joshi 3-2; Siddharth Parikh bt Eddie Fielding (Eng) 3-0; S Venkateswaran bt Adam Clarke (Eng) 3-0; Dhruv Sitwala bt Jonathan Marwood (Eng) 3-0; Rupesh Shah bt Carl Walter Steiner (Aut) 3-0; Arun Agrawal bt Sushrut Pandia 3-1; Arun Agrawal bt Phil Davis (Eng) 3-0; David Causier (Eng) bt Aditya Agrawal 3-1; V Subramanian bt Jamie Barker (Eng) 3-2.</p>