Chowdhary kick starts event with a magic 75

Snooker 6-red National meet: Karnatakas Alphonso, Das a win away from main draw

 
Chowdhary registered the maximum 75-point break in the second frame as he breezed past Nehul 59-05, 75-0, 39-8, 49-5 at the Karnataka State Billiards Association Hall.

Meanwhile, Karnataka’s Karl Alphonso, Kanan Das and T Srinivas scored contrasting victories over their respective opponents to march into the second qualifying round.

In all-Karnataka battles, Alphonso eased past Dipen Raghwani 4-3, Das hardly broke a sweat in his 4-0 thumping of Vijay Nirani while Srinivas ousted Harish BS 4-2.

Results, first qualifying round: Akshay Kumar (Del) bt Srikanth (TN) 4-0; Santosh (TN) bt Ramakanth (AP) 4-2; Nizel Lazar (TN) bt Manjot Singh (Pun) 4-0; G Sreedhar (AP) bt Sandeep Yadav (MP) 4-0; Sunny Chowdhary (Del) bt Nehul (Kar) 4-0; Karl Alphonso (Kar) bt Dipen Raghwani (Kar) 4-1; Yogesh Sharma (Mah) bt HS Neelkanta (Kar) 4-1; Md Shazaan (Kar) bt Peter Paul (TN) 4-3; Naveen P (Kar) bt P Hemanth Kumar (Rlys) 4-2; Siddharth (Kar) bt HN Naveen (Kar) 4-2; Aditya Deshpande (Mah) bt Sharath (TN) 4-0; Ravi Shankar (AP) w/o Hemanth (Kar); Joginder Singh (Kar) w/o Anmol Deepsingh (Pun); Tulsik Thukral (Del) bt Sharvanan R (TN) 4-1; Jayakrishna R (Kar) bt Niranjan K (Kar) 4-3; Vinay Kothari (TN) bt Rohan Nirani (Kar) 4-0; Pranav Jain (TN) bt Aditya Singh Rajavat (MP) 4-1; Vasanth D (Kar) bt Vybhav Joshi (Kar) 4-0; Arun (TN) bt Suraj (Kar) 4-0; Ramesh Muddareddy (Kar) w/o Rahul (AP); Shashank Gupta (MP) bt Pratish (TN) 4-1; Chetan Chabra (Har) bt Nikhil Rehan (Kar) 4-0; Lalit Dahiya (Del) bt Deepesh R Goel (Kar) 4-0; Salil Deshpande (Mah) bt Raghavendra (Kar) 4-0; Vishal Malhothra (Mah) bt Naveen (TN) 4-3; Manoj MK (TN) bt Manjunath NG (Kar) 4-2; Anthony (TN) bt Ramanan (Kar) 4-1; M Sujith Kumar (AP) bt Zubin Lelinwalla (TN) 4-3; Laxman Rawat (Del) bt Khizar Raoof (AP) 4-3; Md Shoaib Khan (WB) bt Amit J (Kar) 4-0; Hariharan KB (Kar) bt Harish Mirchandani (Mah) 4-3; Prashanth Shinde (MP) bt Arjun Hegde (Kar) 4-1; Yogesh M (Kar) bt Aditya Deshpande (Mah) 4-3; Mithil Shinde (Mah) bt Vishal Nirani (Kar) 4-0; Freddy (TN) bt Neelesh Patnakar (Mah) 4-1; Kannan Das (Kar) bt Vijay Nirani (Kar) 4-0; G Mukhyopadhyay (WB) bt Arjun Thakkar (Kar) 4-0; Santosh R (Kar) w/o Sharanjit Singh (Pun); Prathamesh Sawant (Mah) bt Harris (TN) 4-2; Sameer Shroff (TN) bt Siddharth Subramaniam (Mah) 4-1; Vijay Goel (Del) bt Abilash Shankeren (MP) 4-1; T Srinivas (Kar) bt Harish BS (Kar) 4-2; Md Arshad (Kar) bt R Loganathan (TN) 4–0; Rajeev Singh (Mah) bt Abhijit (Kar) 4-3; Anand Raghuvanshi (Mah) W/O Aneesh Saini (Har); Vaibhav Sharma (Del) bt Chetan Chabra (Har) 4-1; Pushparaj (TN) bt Lalrinsanga (Miz) 4-2; Rajesh (Kar) W/O Nayan Narshi (Guj); Aseem (Har) bt Avinash (Kar) 4-0; Magesh S (TN) bt Sheshank (Kar) 4–0; Abhishek Saporkar (Mah) bt Kusha K (Kar) 4–2; Rajiv Shah (Kar) W/O Harpreet Singh (TN).