Mumbai, Jan 13 (IANS) Youngsters Sumer Mago and Shahyan Razmi recorded gorgeous victories over achieved opponents Sparsh Pherwani and Rovin D’Souza respectively in first spherical matches of the All India Snooker Open 2024, on the NSCI billiards corridor on Saturday.
Later, seasoned campaigner and former two-time Asian snooker champion Yasin Service provider dished out a classic efficiency to place it throughout his trainee Vinay Swaminathan in an absorbing match that went to the wire. The snooker maestro confirmed glimpses of his previous and potted steadily towards Swaminathan who performed brilliantly and managed to grab a 66-54, 32-62, 55-75(51), 72-22, 86-9, 83(51)-1, 5-83(73), 0-89, 82(81)-9 victory.
The 19-year-old Sumer confirmed nice character and nerves of metal to narrowly win the essential deciding ninth body to close out his follow associate Pherwani by notching up a well-deserved 5-4 win within the best-of-9 body encounter. After Sumer raced to a 4-1 lead Pherwani fought again to degree the scores at 4-all. However, Sumer performed confidently to win the ultimate body and clinch a 59-25, 57-25, 91-32, 17-87, 67-13, 28-78, 48-65, 17-73, and 63-55 win to advance to the second spherical. Sumer had one break of 51 within the third body whereas Pherwani made two breaks of 61 and 56 within the fourth and sixth frames, however his efforts went in useless.
In distinction, 18-year-old Shahyan performed solidly and steadily towards seasoned cueist Rovin D’Souza and sailed via to the second spherical with a 5-2 verdict. Shahyan began in whirlwind style successful the primary 4 frames to seize the initiative. D’Souza saved himself the blushes by taking the following two frames, earlier than Shahyan returned to successful kind by pocketing the seventh body to finish a 63-56, 91-40, 51-39, 48-11, 23-67, 1-60, and 62-61 victory. The teen had constructed a break of 60 within the second body.
In the meantime, in a battle between NSCI cueists, the skilled Abhishek Bajaj produced some good performances, particularly in successful the fourth to tame Samay Wadhawan 5-1. Bajaj strolled to a 51-27, 56-43, 38-66, 51-47, 89-27, and 74-50 win.
Kreishh Gurbaxani began strongly by stitching collectively a 70 level break in successful the primary body. He then performed steadily to close the door on bt Hritik Jain 5-2 (85(70)-49, 13-64, 62-46, 69-27, 27-72, 63-48, 64-8).
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