Date:25/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/03/25/stories/2006032508411800.htm

Sport - Billiards & Snooker

Yasin Merchant and Dharmender in last eight

HYDERABAD: Yasin Merchant and Dharmender Lilly entered the quarterfinals of the CII-Indian Cue Masters tournament at the Jubilee Hills International Centre here on Friday.

Yasin scored an easy win against Siddarth Parikh while Dharmender put it across Kamal Chawla.

Pankaj Advani, Geet Sethi, Aditya Mehta and Rupesh Shah too made it to the quarterfinals.

The results: League: Group A: Rafat Habib bt Sandeep Gulati 2-1; Dharmender Lilly bt Sarang Shroff 2-0; Yasin Merchant bt Rafat Habib 2-1; Anand Sethi bt Gagan Deep Singh 2-1; Devendra Joshi bt Sarang Shroff 2-1.

Group B: Pranav Gosh bt Khizar Raoof 2-0; Rupesh Shah bt Khizar Raoof 2-0; Brijesh Darmani bt Sourav Kotari 2-0; Pranav Gosh bt Neeraj Kumar 2-1; Pranav Gosh bt Rupesh Shah 2-1; Geet Sethi bt Brijesh Damani 2-1.

Group C: Siddarth Parikh bt John Bosco 2-0; Aditya Mehta bt Harish Gandhi 2-1; Manan Chandra bt Harish Gandhi 2-0; John Bosco bt K. Venkatesham 2-0; Siddarth Parikh bt Varun Kumar 2-0.

Group D: Kamal Chawla bt Shakeel Ahmed 2-0; Nikhil Ootam bt Karnal Chawla 2-1; Shakeel Ahmed bt Anuj Uppal 2-0; Md. Asim bt Sumeet Talwar 2-1; Ashok Shandilya bt Druv Sitwala 2-0; Ashok Shandilya bt Md. Asim 2-1. — Sports Reporter