Last night JWM champion Matthew Bolton geared up correctly in today morning's World Championship 150Up match. He had good breaks of 71, 101, and 58 points in all three games to register straight win over Steve Brookshaw of England. Ofcourse there was good scoring by Steve and he made break of 62 in third game as well but Matthew was more consistent in breaks to win the first league stage match of 150Up.

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.

Former World Champion Ashok Shandilya found officiating as referee for match between V. Subramanian (India) and Steve Brookshaw as a good gesture towards the sport during 2013 World Billiards Championship.