Session II

Match 1: The second session starts with the match between Devendra Joshi (India) and Abdul Omar (Sri Lanka). Continuing the morning session’s form, Joshi crafted a number of 75+ breaks to defeat the Sri Lankan challenge by 954 points. He crafted two century breaks of 168 and 111 in the 7th and 12th visits.

Match 2: Mike Russell, as usual started with a bang in the second session against Chul Ho Hwang. On the third visit itself he scored a break of 697 followed with 217 and 110 in the 4th and 11th breaks respectively to leave nothing for the Korean. In the 17th visit Mike again crafted a break of 232 to defeat Chul by a margin of 1144 points.

Match 3: Ahh... Peter was also in a race of big scores and he did while playing against the Kiwi challenger, Gary Oliver. Gary managed to score a break of 103 in 19th visit but that was not enough to challenge Gilly, who smashed 198, 121, 273, 111, 184, 103 and 172 in the 2nd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 16th, 26th and 38th visits respectively. The winning margin was 1071 points.

Match 4: Billy Bousfield (England) started with a century break in his second visit against Dhruv Sitwala (India) but Dhruv with a few moderate breaks stepped ahead of Billy and took a handsome lead. In the 13th visit Billy crafted one more century break of 133 points before bowing down against Dhruv Sitwala’s 251 in the 14th visit and 195 in the 20th. Dhruv won by 541 points.

Match 5: Kyaw Oo from Myanmar opened with a break of 117 on his second visit against Billiards maestro Geet Sethi (India). Geet countered him with a break of 194 on the third visit but Kyaw Oo continued to threaten him with two beautifully crafted breaks 160 and 123 in the 9th and 14th visits. He went ahead of Geet by nearly 250 points till the halfway point. Changing gear thereon, Geet smashed three breaks of 231, 258 and 341 in the 21st, 24th and 27th visits to defeat Kyaw Oo by 585 points.

Match 6: Both the countrymates B. Bhaskar and Alok Kumar knowing each other’s skills countered each other neck to neck. Bhaskar and Alok both smashed double century breaks of 267 and 213 respectively and ran parallel throughout the match. In the last Bhaskar managed a break of 209 to defeat Alok with a small margin of 79 points.

Match 7: Recovering from last night’s defeat, Indian champ Pankaj Advani took Nay Thway Oo (Myanmar) on challenge and smashed a break of 325 on his very first visit of the match followed with 99 and 94 breaks subsequently. Already outplayed, Nay tried to make a comeback during the 31st to 36th visits but could not reach 100 points in every visit. At the end Pankaj again crafted a break of 241 to seal the win against Nay Thway Oo by 845 points.

Match 8: After losing in the morning session, Englishman Phil Mumford fell short by 37 points against Indian heavyweight Ashok Shandilya. Ashok crafted 227 on the 25th visit on which Phil tried to counter with two breaks of 101 and 173 in the 42nd and 45th visits but failed to pass Ashok at the end.