Ashok Shandilya from India was under threat of losing Last-32 knockout match against Christopher Taylor of England.

Chris was in commanding form since start and maintained good lead in first hour of play when Shandilya got a breakthrough and made breaks of 109 and 81 points to recover the trailing points and impose 59 points win on Englishman Chris.

Bhaskar kept the balls rolling for last 100 points to knockout former World No.2 and fellow countryman, Devendra Joshi in Last-32 stage match.

Bhaskar and Joshi, both were extra cautious and avoided any silly mistake that could lead any chance to other in last 32 match they played against each other. The match had no big break by either of them till both reach the 400 points mark on board but after that when Joshi missed a crucial shot, Bhaskar grabbed that last chance and converted into winning century break to step in Last 16.