Date:13/05/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/05/13/stories/2005051307911800.htm

Sport - Billiards & Snooker

Vatnani recovers

Sports Reporter

HYDERABAD: The top-seeded defending champion, Lucky Vatnani, recovered to down a fighting Eashwar Sastry 33-67, 49-50, 70-9, 50-40, 58-21 in the quarterfinals of the seventh Nizam Club inter-club snooker tournament here on Thursday.

The results: quarterfinals: Lucky Vatnani bt Eashwar Sastry 33-67, 49-50, 70-9, 50-40, 58-21; Praveen Kumar bt Abhinay Reddy 58-13, 74-73, 63-37; Venugopal bt Arvind 55-27, 57-15, 60-32.

Second round: Nizamuddin bt Sridhar 44-59, 50-26, 68-26, 88-1; Mustafa Ali Khan w\o Ritesh Gupta; Vineet Kanjani bt Nitin Shreen 42-46, 66-39, 53-6, 68-9; Chetan Chobra bt Khaja Shareef 39-59, 70-28, 60-30, 58-34; Rohit Michael bt Rehan Hassan 59-49, 44-33, 52-56, 51-25; M.A. Muneem bt Vijay Kumar 53-45, 61-12, 35-59, 72-26; Vishal Agarwal bt C.R.S. Shastry 57-47, 83-28, 60-35.