Players selected for knock-out stage

After the completion of 51 matches in two days of league stage, Top 16 players have been selected those are going play in knock-outs and will be eyeing on the World Billiards Title (Point Format). The sixteen players are:

Group A: Mike Russell (England); Rupesh Shah (India); Nay Thway Oo (Myanmar); Geet Sethi (India)

Group B: Praput Chaithanasakun; Ashok Shandilya (India); Sourav Kothari (India); Gary Oliver (New Zealand)

Group C: Thawat Sujaritthurakarn (Thailand); Kyaw Oo (Myanmar); Dhruv Sitwala (India); Peter Gilchrist (Singapore)

Group D: Pankaj Advani (India); Alok Kumar (India); B. Bhaskar (India); Chul Ho Hwang (Korea)

In Group A, Aidan Murray had to win 3-0 against Nay Thway Oo to be in and made Geet out of the championship but he failed to defeat Nay Thway Oo and lost to him 0-3. Because of this, Geet gets the berth as No.4 in the Group.

Similarly Peter Gilchrist had to win atleast two games against Thawat Sujaritthurakarn. Though he lost 3-2 but confirmed his berth for knock-outs.

Praput Chaithanasakun (Thailand) retained top slot of the Group defeating Ashok Shandialya (India) 3-0.

Knockout matches will start at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.