Sports News | Defending Champion Chandra off to Winning Start, Rao Ousts Habib

Chennai, Dec 23 (PTI) Defending champion Manan Chandra of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) was off to a winning start as he sailed past Bhadresh Panchal of Gujarat 3-1 in the round-robin stage of the Snooker National Championship here on Saturday.

Siddharth Rao of Tamil Nadu produced a dominant show against Rafath Habib of RSPB, winning 3-0.

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J Varun Kumar of Tamil Nadu registered a hard-fought win over Akram Khan of West Bengal 3-2.

However, Tamil Nadu's Kunal Jain, Manoj Dhasarathan and Dhasarasthan suffered losses, going down to Mahesh Jagdale (Maharashtra), Mahesh Aditya (Karnataka) and Dhruv Verma (Punjab), respectively.

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Other results

Group A: Panchal beat Sankar Rao (Andhra) 3-2

Group B: IH Manudev (Kar) beat Atit Shah (Kerala)

Group C: Rajat Kaneja (Haryana) bt P Gangadhar (AP) 3-0; V Susheel (AP) bt Anish Parika (Jharkhand) 3-1

Group D: D Rajkumar (Kar) beat Chirag Ramakrishnan 3-1

Group E: Subrat Das (Odisha) beat Anurag Bagri (Mah) 3-2; Ashish Dhanda (Pun) beat Mohsin Achhava (Gujarat) 3-2; Subrat beat Achhava 3-1

Group F: Kalamuddin (Chattisgarh) beat Modit Poddar (WB) 3-2

Group G: Sunil Jain (Mah) beat Khaleel Ferod (Telangana) 3-0.

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