Dhruv upsets Gilchrist

Match 1: The first match on day two was between B. Bhaskar (India) and Kyaw Oo (Myanmar), which Bhaskar lost by 479 points. Till the 9th visit both the cueists were level smashing two century breaks each, but in the 12th visit with a 220 Kyaw Oo stepped ahead and sealed the match with a break of 103 in the 19th visit.

Match 2: Billiards maestro from India, Geet Sethi refreshed today’s morning session with his two breaks of 547 and 501 (unfinished) in the 14th and 29th visits before winning by a victory margin of 1701 points against the Korean challenge. Tae Hoon Jung could not do anything except watching Geet playing top-table postman’s knock. Geet also scored 190 and 198 in the 15th and 19th visits respectively.

Match 3: In a very close match Ashok Shandilya (India) managed to defeat Nay Thway Oo (MYN) by only 28 points. In the 3rd and 4th visit, Ashok managed to score breaks of 90 and 115 respectively, which were countered by Nay scoring 66 and 71. In the 20th visit, Nay sitting in the driver’s seat moved ahead with a break of 202. Trailing Ashok waited for right opportunity and in the 38th visit managed 193 followed by 43 in the 46th visit to inch ahead of Nay. With three wins he has already secured his place for the knockout stage.

Match 4: Thrilled with last night’s victory in India vs. Rest of World, Pankaj carried his style in the match against Aidan Murray (Ireland). Aidan failed to challenge Pankaj’s 119, 266 and 146 in the 8th, 9th and 24th visits and Pankaj wins by a margin of 577 points.

Match 5: A medley of 700+ remains ON for Mike Russell as in third consecutive match, he smashed a 700+ break. Playing Devendra Joshi (India), Mike instantly reached top-table in his 2nd visit to score 110 followed with 753 in the 4th. Already trailing by 850 odd points, Joshi managed to get a 198 break in the 12th visit. Mike also smashed 177, 243 and 165 in the 8th, 12th and 14th visits.

Match 6: Rupesh had nothing to prove against Abdul Omar (Sri Lanka) and he played freely scoring multiple century breaks including a break of 334, in the 7th visit. Abdul scored 294 with 52 in the 14th visit before losing by 1288 points.

Match 7: In a thrilling match, Dhruv Sitwala upset former world champion from Singapore Peter Gilchirst. Dhruv settled himself down with two meager breaks of 61 and 64 initially and then dominated the match with 331 and 198 in the 5th and 6th visits. This was countered by Peter by smashing 408 in next visit. Smashing 162 in the 9th visit, Dhruv got a lead which was again countered by Peter with 257 but that was not sufficient as Dhruv finished the match in the 10th visit scoring 146 unfinished.

Match 8: The last match of morning session was easy sailing for Gary Oliver as he took on Min Hu Baek of Korea. Gary scored a few 50+ breaks to defeat the Korean by 324 points.