Day II Session II

Match 1: Billy Bousfield got a comparatively easy match compared to the last two he lost, scoring decent below century breaks to register his win over Min Hu Baek of Korea with a total of 70 visits to the table. Min scored 488.

Match 2: After defeating Peter in the first session, Dhruv was in full form and carried on in a similar vein in the second session against New Zealand’s Gary Oliver, scoring back-to-back breaks of 287 and 344 in the 24th and 25th visit. Gary managed one century break in his 12th visit. Winning all matches in the league stage, Dhruv sailed into the knockout.

Match 3: The third match of the session was again one sided, as Rupesh Shah defeated Korean Chul Ho Hwang with a winning margin of 1136 points. The 13th visit saw a break of 306 by Rupesh and one in the last 238.

Match 4: Mike is not interested in anything less than 500, which was reflected on his face when he missed four breaks on 105, 139, 308 and 109. Finally in the 39th visit playing restlessly he smashed 622 to get some satisfaction from his own performance. Finally he defeated Abdul Omar by 1274 points.

Match 5: After losing two matches, Phil Mumford managed to register his win over Irishman Aidan Murray with a margin of 184 points. His 57 visits had no century break.

Match 6: Reigning world champion (time format) Pankaj Advani took his own countryman Ashok Shandilya on challenge, who earlier had won all three matches and was looking to grab the top slot in Group A. But Pankaj was not interested in giving anyone that place and defeated Ashok by 604 points. Pankaj had 6 century breaks and only one double century break in the 27th visit. Ashok managed to score 138 and 143 in the 26th and 29th visit.

Match 7: Alok Kumar of India got easy sailing against Tae Hoon Jung (Korea) and registered a win by 1126 points.

Match 8: Geet Sethi of India continued his winning streak, defeating B. Bhaskar by 955 points. Geet playing consistently scored big breaks in almost every visit with 264 in the 9th and 309 in the 14th visit. Bhaskar managed only 150 in the 32nd visit.