Former World Champion Peter Gilchrist from Singapore has now reached the last 8 of IBSF World Billiards (150-Up) Championships 2015 being played here at Oceania Snooker Academy in Adelaide, South Australia. In the last-16 match, he defeated India's Brijesh Damani 4-1.

Peter started up well with two breaks of 71 and 51 in first game but Damani countered him in second game by crafting unfinished break of 151. For Damani that remained the only game win because after that Gilchrist fully taken over and crafted magnificent breaks of 102, 132, 55 and 57 to win next three games and match also.

He will now meet former world No.2 Alok Kumar of India who defeated his compatriot Jaiveer Dhingra 4-1 in last-16. Though Alok lost the first game where Jaiveer scored a break of 111. In fact Jaiveer tried his best after that also but Alok controlled the entire match his way. He scored breaks of 58, 58,  150 unfinished and 100 to close the match proceedings 4-1.




 

Multiple time world champion Rupesh Shah faced a stiff competition in his first knockout match of last 32 stage from his compatriot and a player from his same club in India, Dhvaj Haria.

Shah started off well and soon pocketed first two games scoring decent breaks of 96 and 64 points when the Junior National Champion of India, Dhvaj made a comeback with a break of 90 points in response to 98 of Shah and pocketed the third game 150(98)-140(90).

Leads does not win matches, its only determination and hard work pays off. The same was clearly evident in the match between Jaiveer Dhingra and Thanh Long Nguyen, where Thanh, despite having trail of more than 100 points won the match. More important he did not produced any big break either in the beginning or even to recover from trail.