Advani makes winning start at Asian Billiards C’ship

Advani dumped Singapore’s Yeo Teck Shin 4-0 in the opening match of the men’s event.

Published : Mar 19, 2018 14:29 IST , Yangon

Advani barely broke a sweat as he dumped Shin with the help of a 98 break and three consecutive centuries in the best-of-seven 100-up encounter. (File Photo)
Advani barely broke a sweat as he dumped Shin with the help of a 98 break and three consecutive centuries in the best-of-seven 100-up encounter. (File Photo)
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Advani barely broke a sweat as he dumped Shin with the help of a 98 break and three consecutive centuries in the best-of-seven 100-up encounter. (File Photo)

Multiple-time world champion Pankaj Advani made a rampaging start to his title defence at the 17th Asian Billiards Championship, outclassing Singapore’s Yeo Teck Shin 4-0 in the opening match of the men’s event, here on Monday.

Advani, who has won the world champion 19 times, barely broke a sweat as he dumped Shin with the help of a 98 break and three consecutive centuries in the best-of-seven 100-up encounter.

Rupesh Shah too came up with an identical win against Indonesia’s Marlando Sihombing but with one century and a 53 break.

The other men’s players participating from India are Nationals runner-up Dhvaj Haria and B. Bhaskar.

Contrasting wins

In the women’s snooker individual event, India’s Vidya Pillai and Amee Kamani came up with contrasting wins against Myanmar cueists.

While Pillai scored a 2-1 win against Thandar Maung, Kamani notched up a facile 2-0 victory in the league stage versus Ngwe Hlaing. Keerath Bhandaal, on the other hand, got the better of compatriot Varshaa Sanjeev 2-1 in a closely fought battle.

In the under-21 snooker category, the only Indian to play on the first day was Sparsh Pherwani who defeated Myanmar’s Thaw Zain Htet in the deciding frame 4-3.

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