Birthday boy happy with today's wins

Despite having 2-0 lead, Mac all of sudden made a good comeback and won next two games to put extra pressure on Siddharth. In that situation, Siddharth went for a break and scored 83 points to win the match 3-2.

Earlier he defeated Kien Nguyen of Vietnam 3-0 having breaks of 70 in first, 83 in second and two breaks of 74 each in last game.

David Collins of Australia also worked hard to defeat India's Aditya Agrawal. David scored small but significant breaks in all three games to register 3-0 win over Aditya who was also contesting well and gave tough fight to Collins.