Pankaj Advani along with five others qualified for the Indian Open Championships after winning their respective knockout matches on Thursday.In the qualifiers, which concluded at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana tables, Advani blanked Rafat Habib 4-0. India No. 5 Faisal Khan shocked India No 2 Kamal Chawla 4-2 in a two-hour encounter.
India No. 3 Brijesh Damani, Neeraj Kumar, Dharminder Lilly and Sumit Talwar also qualified.
Asian snooker gold medal-winning team member Faisal won 4-2 (68-24, 131(103)-00, 25-75, 78-51, 13-77(72), 78(59)-12) In the deciding frame Chawla led 12-0.
In another interesting match, Lilly of Punjab blossomed late in the seventh frame to make a comeback and scrape past Laxman Rawat 4-3 (74-11, 60-34, 10-64, 61-03, 05-60, 00-83, 64-50).
Rawat was 8 point up after which he missed a brown. Lilly had a break of 22, after potting brown, blue, pink and black to turn the tide in a two hour 30 min thriller. In the last frame Lakshman was up 8 points and missed on the brown. Dharmendra played calmly to clinch a break of 22 points potting brown, blue, pink and black to win the match.
In another closely fought match, Sumit Talwar of Chandigarh upset seasoned Alok Kumar of PSPB for the top spot winning 4-3 (67-22, 51-69, 33-69, 15-51, 62-16, 59-47, 59-56).
In the decider frame Alok Kumar led 31-7, Sumit Talwar made a unbeaten break of 46 to come back a score a creditable 3 point win.
Pankaj Advani of PSPB secured a easy win over Rafat Habib od Railways winning 4-0(84-51, 62-21, 69-05, 75(75)-00); Advani's teammate Brijesh Damani scored a 4-2 (53-57,51-41,81-414,68-36,14-72,49-04) win over Delhi's Anuj Uppal, while Railwayman Neeraj Kumar stopped the winning run of PSPB's Manan Chandra 4-1(79-16, 70-55, 86-28, 41-55, 83-37).
By Pune Mirror
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