Sports News | Advani, Chawla, Mehta off to Winning Starts
Get latest articles and stories on Sports at LatestLY. Multiple world champion Pankaj Advani, along with Aditya Mehta and Kamal Chawla, made winning starts in the 6-Red snooker event of the National Billiards & Snooker Championships here on Wednesday.
Chennai, Dec 6 (PTI) Multiple world champion Pankaj Advani, along with Aditya Mehta and Kamal Chawla, made winning starts in the 6-Red snooker event of the National Billiards & Snooker Championships here on Wednesday.
The event resumed on Wednesday following a two-day interruption due to Cyclone Michaung.
Representing PSPB, Advani, who won a record 26th ISBF world title in Doha last month, had breaks of 41, 44 and 34 to brush aside Karnataka's Sufyan Ahmed 4-0 in a group A clash.
A former champion, Advani had ended up as the runner-up to Ishpreet Singh Chadha of Maharashtra in the previous edition.
Last year's semi-finalist Kamal Chawla (RSPB) sailed past Hassan Badami (Maharashtra) 4-0 in group B, whereas Aditya Mehta (PSPB) beat Vijay Nichani (Tamil Nadu) 4-1 in group G.
Sixty-four players are divided into 16 groups for the main draw round-robin league, with the top two from each qualifying for the knock-outs.
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