Russell Wins In Geet-Russell Tussle

The morning session on opening day of 2010 IBSF World Billiards Championship at PYC Hindu Gymkhana Club at Pune. The day for which every cuesports lover was waiting for, and the simple reason, they got a chance to witness the match between Geet Sethi of India against Mike Russell of England. Though the disappointment for Indian fans, as Geet lost to him in straight sets 0-3. Mike was absolutely on fire from very first game. He demonstrated the billiards for which he is well known. The First game Geet started and missed on 31. From there, Russell instantly moved on top-table and compiled his first century break. He missed on 142 but nothing to worry him as Geet again missed on a total of 49 allowing Russell to finish the first game in his favour.

Second game, Russell compiled two comfortable breaks of 88 and 44 to take a lead of 2-0. In third game, on a break of 56, Russell fumbled after which Geet compiled a break of 58, but that was not sufficient to stop Russell and Russell finished the proceedings with a break of 87 in his favour 3-0.

In an another interesting match, Peter Gilchrist (Singapore) defeated Kyaw Oo (pronunciation ‘Chaaoo’) of Myanmar with a damage of 1 game. The first game was very close with a score of 150-137 in favour of Peter. In second game, Peter displayed quality game and compiled a break of 140 to take a lead of 2-0. Though Kyaw Oo pocketed third game but Peter again constructed 102 in fourth to finish the match in his favour 3-1.

In other morning session matches, Phil Mumford beat Sourav Kothar (India) 3-1, Ashok Shandilya (India) beat Gary Oliver (New Zealand) 3-1 whereas Aidan Murray (Ireland), Rupesh Shah (India) and Dhruv Sitwala (India) won their matches comfortably 3-0 each.