Struggling Geet

The second session had no good news for Geet Sethi as he lost to Nay Thway Oo of Myanmar in straight sets. In the first game, Geet scored 114 with a break of 47, but constructing two breaks of 70 and 51, Nay Thway Oo pocketed the game. In the next two games, Nay compiled decent breaks of 94 and 125 and made a damage in the Indian camp scoring 3-0 against Sethi.

Devendra Joshi’s defeat was another damage to the Indian Camp when he lost to Thawat Sujaritthurakarn (Thailand). Playing a modest game, Thawat posted victory over Joshi in straight sets. The third game went very close, where Joshi needed only 3 points to make a comeback but he missed on a total score of 147.

Mike Russell continued his win in the second session where he defeated Min Hu Baek of Korea 3-0 constructing breaks of 90, 115 and 146 in all three games. Praput C. (Thailand) and Bhaskar (India) also registered wins over Gary Oliver (New Zealand) and Chul Ho Hwang (Korea) respectively in straight sets.

Billy Bousfield from England went down to reigning World Champion, Pankaj Advani. Pankaj compiled breaks of 96, 101 and 142 in first, second and fourth game to win the match 3-1.