Advani, Bhaskar continue to win

The seasoned pro, who had scored a 100-11, 101-44, 101-5 win over Arun Chhabra in his only match on the opening day,  strolled past Tamil Nadu R Kartik 101-56, 102-2, 101-30 in the day’s first match, and put aside Railways’ Simachalam 100-97, 100-94, 100-26 in his second encounter. Seven-time world champion Pankaj Advani of Karnataka, representing the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board, scored his third win against Delhi’s Amit Sharma to lead the pack in Group ‘A’

Results: Group A: Sourav Kothari bt Amit Lath 100-59, 102-84, 100-19; Pankaj Advani bt Amit Sharma 76-100, 102-38, 102-0, 102-13; Pamin Shah bt MS Reddy 101-93, 100-73, 19-100, 38-100, 101-20.

Group B: Geet Sethi bt Arif Akhtar 100-10, 102-16, 101-15; D Rajkumar bt Prem Prakash 101-99, 101-19, 100-18; Anuj Bhargava bt Aayush Kumar 101-44, 101-90, 101-59.

Group D: Subrat Das bt Shravan Mohta 100-70, 101-73, 100-10; Siddharth Parikh bt Vijay Goel 100-5, 100-31, 100-53.

Group E: Shakeel Ahmed bt Aman Goel 102-20, 101-50, 104-31; Ashok Shandilya bt Kanishk Jhanjaria 101-50, 101-33, 77-100, 101-88; Arun Agarwal bt Aman Goel 101-80, 101-30, 102-89; Shakeel Ahmed bt Khizar Raoof 100-39, 101-92, 101-0.

Group F: K Venkatesham bt Durga Prasad 102-5, 100-2, 102-27; Alok Kumar bt Durga Prasad 101-85, 102-55, 100-0; K Venkatesham bt Divya Sharma 84-100, 101-27, 101-36, 100-94.

Group G: Rupesh Shah bt Dhvaj Haria 101-2, 101-69, 100-10; V Subramaniam bt Rafath Habib 100-48, 41-101, 100-12, 100-98; Rupesh Shah bt Rafath Habib  102-83, 100-0, 100-0; V Subramaniam bt IV Rajeev 59-101, 103-61, 100-11, 102-65.

Group H: Shahbaz Khan bt Simachalam 100-41, 102-30, 18-103, 100-37; B Bhaskar bt R Kartik 101-56, 102-2, 101-30; D Mukhopadhyay bt Arun Chhabra  100-60, 100-61, 102-17; Shahbaz Khan bt Arun Chhabra 100-9, 102-34, 101-52; B Bhaskar bt Simachalam 100-97, 100-94, 100-26; R Kartik bt D Mukhopadhyay 100-81, 101-51, 30-102, 102-96.