Thawat on winning streak, Geet back in form

Thawat Sujaritthurakarn (Thailand) continues on his winning streak and is focused to gain top seed position for the knockout stage, yet he has to play two more matches. Thawat has not yet lost a single game in the tournament. Today he played Dhruv Sitwala (India), beating him 3-0 with the help of modest breaks in all three games. Dhruv got a couple of chances but he was struggling to convert them into big breaks and missed the few chances he got in today’s match.

Geet Sethi came to arena with his last chance to remain in title race as he had to win against Aidan Murray of Ireland. After winning the lag, Geet started proceedings of the match. It appeared he is struggling, and on a score of 102 he missed out. Aidan got a chance and cleared the first game with a worthy break of 86.

In the second game Geet continued to struggle to retain the balls in position but somehow he managed to score two small breaks of 60 and 57 to level the match 1-1. With a break of 57 in this game, he gets his rhythm back. Next two games he finished very quickly with the breaks of 125 and 81 in third and fourth, displaying the well known postman’s knock to the spectators.

Englishmen Mike Russell, Billy Bousfield and Indian champ Pankaj Advani won their morning session matches losing one game each. Alok Kumar (India) wins comfortably 3-0 against the Korean, Chul Ho Hwang.

Peter Gilchrist (Singapore) went down fighting against Devendra Joshi (India) in the deciding frame. Joshi was in fine touch and smashed three century breaks of 127, 151 and 103 in first, third and fifth game respectively. Peter failed to produce good breaks in both the games he won.