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Brijesh shocks Aditya

By Our Sports Reporter

JAMMU DEC. 24. Snooker exponent Brijesh Damani bested the fourth seed Aditya Mehta and made it to the quarterfinal round of the junior National billiards championship at the Hari Niwas Palace here on Tuesday.

Bengal cueist Damani relied on his consistent breaks, though he had nothing extraordinary to show for. Damani's major breaks comprised 42 and 38, but his resolve to carry on with the two-hour game helped him for the surprise win.

Aditya had two breaks of 50 each, but he wasted many visits to the table, and paid the price.

While Damani took the centrestage, defending champion Pankaj Advani was at his best. Though Advani missed the century break by 14 points, it was he who mesmerised the audience with his show.

Playing against Sunil Rastogi of Uttar Pradesh, Advani took little time to break into his own class, and ended just three points from reaching the 1000 mark.

Advani, the double champion, had seven half-century breaks, highest being 86. He also had scores of 59, 82, 78, 66, 66 and 58, which was enough to carry him into the quarterfinals. Pankaj won 997-162. He now meets Ravinder Singh of Rajasthan in the quarters.

Elsewhere, Junior World number nine Vaibhav Punvatkar virtually psyched his opponent from Jammu and Kashmir, Ishan Sharma. Punvatkar, who represented India at the Sydney Worlds, was just about got into his groove and led 327-75 in 45 minutes when Ishan resigned the game.

Also making it to the last eight stage were third seed Sourav Kothari of Bengal, Vinay Katrela of Karnataka, Pamin Shah of Gujarat and second seed Rishabh Thakkar of Maharashtra, and qualifier Aparajit Mittal of Maharashtra.

Four players will make it to the final, which will be played on the league basis with the one with maximum wins taking the title.

The results:

Second round: Nishant Azad (J and K) bt Rohit Sharma (UP) 433-315; Dhruv Varma (Pun) bt Kiran Chawla (Kar) 529-429; Sagar Yadav (Guj) bye; Vaibhav Punvatkar (Mah) bt Ishan Sharma (J and K) 327-75; Chiranjeev Singh (Ori) bt Ankit Soni (Har) 443-281; Pankaj Advani (Kar) bt Sunil Rastogi (UP) 997-162; Ravinder Singh (Raj) bt Nitin Mehra (HP) 543-306; Sourav Kothari (Ben) bt Subrat Das (Ori) 725-149; Brijesh Damani (Ben) bt Aditya Mehta (Mah) 582-414; Rishabh Thakkar (Mah) bt Wasim Ahmed (TN) 603-139; Pamin Shah (Guj) bt Ravi Kant (UP) 478-157; V. Katerla (Kar) bt Sumit Talwar (Chd) 618-264; Ankur Nanda (Har) w.o Kamaldeep Singh (Del); Sunny Chaddha (Del) w.o Nitin Agarwal (MP); Aparajit Mittal (Mah) bt Sandip Sharma (Chd) 403-274; Deepak Bajaj (J and K) bt K. Jhanjarya (MP) 326-319.

First round: Sunil Rastogi bt J. Varun Kumar (TN) 373-335; Ishan Sharma bt Gaurav Joshi (Pun) 310-286; Brijesh Damani bt Lucky Vatnani (AP) 547-472; Sumit Talwar bt Farooq Ibrahim (AP) 447-426; Ravi Kant bt Akhil Kumar (Raj) 252-160; Wasim Ahmed (TN) bt Gagandeep Singh (HP) 460-396.

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