Sherazi powers into semifinals

Results: Senior billiards: Group A: Pankaj Advani (PSPB) bt Jay Shankar Shaw (Jhar) 3-0 (101(73 unf)-10, 101(95, unf)-2, 100-35); Vishal Madan (Mah) bt IV Rajeev (AP) 3-0 (101(58)-39, 101(69 unf)-44, 101-51); Prem Prakash (TN) bt MS Reddy (AP) 3-1 (102-89, 71-101, 100-58, 100-46); P Prakash bt V Madan 3-0 (100-74, 100(55)-94, 100-55); MS Reddy bt JS Shaw 3-0 (100-53, 104-28, 103-44); P Advani bt IV Rajiv 3-0 (101(50)-47, 101(91)-51, 100-45).

Group B: Nitin Kohli (UP) bt Shankar Rao (AP) 3-1 (101-60, 93-100, 100-75, 101-64); Simhachallam (Rly) bt Ustav Ramani (Guj) 3-0 (101-33, 101-34, 103-57); Alok Kumar (PSPB) bt Anshul Mittal 3-0 (101-4, 101(72)-12, 102-37); Shankar Rao (AP) bt Simhachallam (Rly) 3-1 (101-23, 101(50)-29, 34-100, 101(52)-27); Utsav Ramani (Guj) bt Anushal Mittal (Har) 3-0 (100-72, 102-71, 100-32); A Kumar bt N Kohli 3-0 (102-39, 100(80)-5, 100(58)-45).

Group C: Siddarth Pariekh (Rlys) bt D Rajkumar (Kar) 3-1 (100(100 unf)-0, 95-103, 100-17, 101-86); Geet Sethi (Guj) bt Ketan Chawla (MP) 3-0 (100(83 unf)-24, 101(63 unf)-0, 101(92 unf)-39); Bhuvaneshwaran (TN) bt Saketh Sourab (Bih) 3-0 (101-11, 102-12, 101-72); S Pariekh bt K Chawla 3-2 (100-41, 84-102, 100(53)-0, 67(56)-100, 102-48); D Rajkumar bt D Bhuvaneshwaran 3-2 (73-101, 100-99, 15-100(72), 101-46, 100-65); Geet Sethi (Guj) bt Saketh Sourab (Bih) 3-0 (100(82)-5, 102(88)-28, 100-61).
Group D: Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB) bt Subrat Das (Ori) 3-0 (101-10, 101(66)-72, 100-47); Arun Agarwal (Mah) bt Abhineet Sharma (MP) 3-1 (100-26, 91-105, 100-43, 100(77 unf)-25); Akram Khan (Ch) bt Arif Akthar (Ch) 3-1 (69-100, 100(66 unf)-55, 100-60, 101-13); A Sharma bt S Das 3-0 (100-56, 101-74, 100(60 unf)-77); D Sitwala bt A Aktar 3-1 (102(63 unf)-24, 100-13, 83-100(59), 100(94)-0); A Khan bt A Agarwal 3-1 (101-36, 100-71, 9-100, 100(75 unf)-70).

Group E: Saurav Kothari (PSPB) bt Shivam Arora (Bih) 3-0 (101(80)-38, 101(74)-15, 101-4); A Agarwal (Rlys) bt K Shamsi (UP) 3-1 (82-103(67), 100-72(50), 101-97, 103-07); Rupesh Shah (PSPB) bt Abhishek Saini (Har) 3-0 (100(67 unf)-5, 100-15, 100(69)-14); R Shah bt K Shamsi 3-0 (101(54)-13, 101(64)-60, 100(83)-35); S Kothari bt A Agarwal 3-0 (100 (66 unf)-67, 100(63)-12, 100(52)-85); S Arora (Bih) bt A Saini 3-0 (100-91, 100-60, 100-30).

Group F: Manish Jagdale (Mah) bt Shakeel Ahmed (WB) 3-1 (69(69)-102(72), 101-99(56), 102-82, 100-51); Ashok Shandilya (Rly) bt Kunal Manchanda (Raj) 3-0 (101-17, 101-28, 101(63)-31); A Shandilya bt M Jagdale 3-1 (100(75)-48, 5-101, 100(86 unf) -0, 100-50); S Ahmed bt Amit Sharma (Del) 3-0 (101-26, 100(50)-21, 100-21); SA Saleem (TN) bt K Manchanda 3-0 (101-29, 102(54)-27, 100-47); S Ahmed bt K Manchanda 3-0 (101-61, 100-25, 101-36); A Shandilya bt SA Saleem 3-0 (101-29, 101(52 unf) -31, 100(59)-2); M Jagdale bt A Sharma 3-2 (102-30, 19-101(78), 51-100, 100(59 unf)-62, 100-57).

Group G: B Bhaskar (Kar) bt IH Manudev 3-0 (101(93 unf)-56, 100(54 unf)-31, 100-21); K Venkatesam (Rly) bt MC Manoj (TN) 3-0 (100-33, 100-66, 100-99); B Bhaskar bt MC Manoj 3-0 (101-35, 101-63, 101(62)-20); IH Manudev bt Varun Madan (Del) 3-0 (100-31, 102-09, 102-18); K Venkatesam (Rly) w/o Jayenth Meghanani; K Venkatesam (Rly) bt V Madan 3-1 (102-83, 102(67)-37, 63-101, 101-88(58)); B Bhaskar (Kar) bt V Madan 3-0 (100(62)-6, 101(93 unf)-33, 102-7); K Venkatesam (Rly) bt IH Manudev 3-0 (101(57)-94, 100(54)-15, 101(54 unf)-60).

Junior billiards: Quarterfinals: Mundir Sherazi (Kar) bt Himanshu Jain (AP) 466-384; Ustav Ramani (Guj) bt Ketan chawla (MP) 492-486; Malkeet Singh (UP) bt Kabil Badami (Mah) 408 (40, 48)-285; Dhvaj Haria (Guj) bt ML Lakshman (Kar) 677-404.