In an interesting match of the third session, Alok Kumar (India) defeated Billy Bousfield (England) 3-1. The first game of the match went very close where Alok moved just ahead of Billy 151-149. Second game Billy made a comeback and leveled the match, but in the third game he missed on a score of 134. Without wasting this opportunity, Alok scored a break of 132 and took a lead of 2-1. In the fourth game, Alok did not give any chance to Billy and smashing a break of 131, wins the match 3-1.

Dhruv Sitwala (India) kept his cool against Peter Gilchrist (Singapore) and defeated him 3-0.

Pankaj Advani (India) and Thawat Sujaritthurakarn (Thailand) also registered comfortable wins against both Korean players in straight sets 3-0.

Ashok Shandilya (India) defeated his country mate Sourav Kothari 3-1. Shandilya took an initial lead of 2-0 comfortably constructing breaks of 90 and 82 in the first two games. Third game Sourav instantly moved on top-table and compiled 111. There he missed off- the-cushion cannon on yellow by a very thin gap. After a score of 55 by Shandilya, Sourav made 40 more points to pocket the game. Shandilya made his intentions clear and without giving any chance to Sourav, he finished the game and match with the aid of two breaks of 70 and 78 in fourth game.