In second semi final, Peter Gilchrist knocked out another Indian challenge, Alok Kumar by 1250-916 to set stage with David Causier for the final to be played tomorrow.

After winning World Championship 150-Up format last week, David Causier made it thru to the final of World Championship Long-Up format also by defeating weighty challenge from India, Ashok Shandilya 1250-710.

Alok Kumar knocks out Nalin Patel (England) to confirm second medal for him and third for India by entering into Semi finals of World Billiards Long Up format.

Matthew Bolton from Australia suffered a shock exit in last 16 stage of 2013 World Billiards Long format losing 742-750 in a closely fought battle to Nalin Patel (England) here in Leeds.

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.

After completion of Round Robin stage of World Billiards Long Up format, Peter Gilchrist from Singapore scored +1281 points with an average of 320.25 per match to win top seed position in knockout draw. He is followed by Ashok Shandilya, Martin Goodwill and Dhruv Sitwala scoring +1184 (296.00), +1177(294.25) and +876 (292.00) respectively.

Nalin Patel, Rob Hall from England and Rupesh Shah from India finishes all their group stage matches as No.1 in respective groups.

Nalin had finished his matches last night only whereas Rupesh and Hall played their last round robin matches today morning against Shekhar Surve (India) and Neil Bolton (Australia) respectively.

Within 24 hours Alok Kumar from India takes his revenge by defeating David Causier in Long Up format, whom he lost in the final of 150Up format a day before. David Causier must have not imagined that so soon he will loss by the same opponent whom he defeated 24 hours ago to win the World title.

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.

Geet Sethi, David Causier and Peter Gilchirst played finest billiards on the opening day of Long-Up Format World Championship.

Geet Sethi from India started well and won convincingly scoring 400 points against 203 of his compatriot Devendra Joshi. Two breaks of 142 and an unfinished 192 were enough for Geet to edge out Joshi who managed to score only a break of 82 points in the beginning.