Crowd to witness Geet-Russell tussle again; Peter on challenge to stop Pankaj

Match 1: The first Quarter final match, Kyaw Oo (Myanmar) played with the reigning champion Pankaj Advani. Pankaj very quickly crafted two century breaks in the first two games and took a 2-0 lead. In the third game Kyaw Oo put a bar in his smooth sailing and crafted four worthy breaks of 85 & 42 in the third, and 89 & 59 in the fourth game to level the match at 2 all. Kyaw Oo tried very well to step ahead of Pankaj, but on a break of 113 he missed out. As Pankaj rarely wastes such opportunities, he did not this time. Crafting break of 82 in the fifth and a century break in the next, he advanced to the Semi Finals.

Match 2: In the morning it was Thawat and now Rupesh, but Gilly (Peter Gilchrist) didn’t care. Carrying the same form from pre-quarters to quarter finals with the same result. Rupesh Shah tried to stop him but Gilly’s two century breaks in the first two games followed with 74 in the third and a little 46 were sufficient to in win the match one sided (4-0) and challenge Pankaj Advani in the Semi Final match tomorrow.

Match 3: Geet was back in the form he started in the quarter final match to play against country mate Dhruv Sitwala. In the first two games Geet, with two beautifully crafted breaks of 106 and 95, advanced to 2-0. Dhruv Sitwala, who was sitting idle in first two games explored his all shots in the third game and with two worthy breaks of 85 and 65 narrowed the lead 1-2.

In the fourth game, spectators were lucky to witness a sequence of nearly 7 awesome shots consecutively, those a legend like Geet only can play. A couple of them were calculated even in millimeters. All were recovery shots when he went out of position on 120 and carried on to win the game. In the fifth game, Dhruv countered and won with a break of 92. Sheer hard luck for Dhruv in the sixth game, when he crafted a break of 85 and was in perfect position. He started scoring with his ball and after making 5 or 7 odd points he started playing with wrong ball mistakenly. The referee and Opponent (Geet) did not notice. The shots continued and shortly Dhruv reached on 89 using top-table skills, till the Referee noticed and pointed out about the wrong ball. Geet was on 9 points at that time. Getting this as a god gift, Geet constructed 141 to seal the match in his favour.

Match 4: As usual Mike again finished his match first amongst all four quarter final matches. While playing against B. Bhaskar (India), the first game he won with two breaks of 76 and 75. In the second game Bhaskar showed some class and scored a break of 119 to level the match 1-1. Mike pocketed the next two games with a break of 148 in the fourth. Starting the fifth game to finish the proceedings, Mike missed-out on a score of 29. Bhaskar fully tried to utilize this opportunity by crafting a century break to narrow the gap, but could not keep control and fell short by 9 points (141 score, 120 break) leaving open table for Mike. Mike requiring 121 to win the match, did the same.

Semi Final matches are tomorrow at 10 o'clock in the morning

Semi Final Line Up:
Pankaj Advani (India) vs. Peter Gilchrist (Singapore)
Mike Russell (England) vs. Geet Sethi (India)