Top cueists post easy wins on Day 1

In Group A, defending Champion Sourav Kothari of PSPB kicked off his campaign with a straight win over S. Shankar Rao of Andhra Pradesh.

Though Shankar Rao tried to hold Sourav back in the first two games, the latter sealed the match with an unfinished break of 100 in the third game. In the second game which witnessed some exciting moments, Sourav beat C. Vijayaram of Tamil Nadu.

In Group H, Pankaj Advani gave a flawless display to register comfortable wins over Subodh Lahiri of Uttar Pradesh and Ranjit M.N. of Telengana. Advani, expectedly the cynosure of all eyes at the Championship, scored two century breaks against Ranjit and one against Lahiri.

In Group E, Rupesh Shah of PSPB beat Anupam Jha of Bihar 3-0 with the scoreline reading 101(101)-00, 104(96)-00, 105(45)-14.

In Group C, B. Bhaskar of Karnataka played a chanceless break of 100 to beat Ketan Chawla of Madhya Pradesh 3-1 while Dhvaj Haria of PSPB beat Aditya Agrawal of RSPB 3-2

In Group F, Brijesh Damani of PSPB beat Anseth Pareira of Jharkhand 3-0, and followed it up with another 3-0 win over D. Rajkumar of Karnataka.

In Group B, Alok Kumar of PSPB beat Rakesh R. Pradhan of Orissa 3-0 with the scores reading 100-80, 102(62)-03, 100-30.

In Group D, Dhruv Sitwala of PSPB beat S. Mumtaz Ali of Jharkhand 3-0 with the scoreline at 101-37, 100(62)-32, 101-33.

SCORES

GROUP A

Sourav Kothari (PSPB) beat S. Shankar Rao (AP) 3-0

101-67, 100(62)-83, 100(100)-49

Rafath Habib (RSPB) beat Shahbaaz Adil Khan (PSPB) 3-0

101-78(59), 102-79, 1104(75)-16

Aamer Hussain (West Bengal) beat C. Vijayaram (Tamil Nadu) 3-2

101-55, 101-91, 95-100, 89-101, 100-65

Sourav Kothari (PSPB) beat C. Vijayaram (TN) 3-1

55-102, 100-94, 102-51, 102-31

GROUP B

Alok Kumar (PSPB) beat Rakesh R. Pradhan (Orissa) 3-0

100-80, 102(62)-03, 100-30

Vishal Madan (Maharashtra) beat Ankit Kariwala (West Bengal) 3-0

100(80)-20, 100(57)-55, 100-32

Shivam Arora (Bihar) beat I.H. Manudev (Karnataka) 3-2

101-32, 100-46, 52-102, 59-100, 100-98

GROUP C

B. Bhaskar (Karnataka) beat Ketan Chawla (Madhya Pradesh) 3-1

100(100)-00, 89(78)-100, 100-32, 100-05

Dhvaj Haria (PSPB) beat Aditya Agrawal (RSPB) 3-2

36-100, 102(102)-00, 81-100(78), 100-28, 102(102)-00

Himanshu Jain (Telengana) beat Kankan Shamsi (Uttar Pradesh) 3-0

101-69, 100-76, 100-98

GROUP D

Manish Jain (West Bengal) W/O Divya Sharma (Haryana)

Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB) beat S. Mumtaz Ali (Jharkhand) 3-0

101-37, 100(62)-32, 101-33

GROUP E

Rupesh Shah (PSPB) beat Anupam Jha (Bihar) 3-0

101(101)-00, 104(96)-00, 105(45)-14

Siddharth Parikh (RSPB) beat Amit Sharma (Delhi) 3-0

100(58)-05, 100(53)-39, 100-83

Neeraj Kumar (RSPB) beat Shyam Jagtiani (West Bengal) 3-0

101-72(53), 102-56, 101-23

Rupesh Shah (PSPB) W/O Aneesh Saini (Haryana)

Siddharth Parikh (RSPB) beat Anupam Jha (Bihar) 3-0

100(60)-00, 100(82)-11, 100-15

GROUP F

Brijesh Damani (PSPB)beat Anseth Pareira (Jharkhand) 3-0

101(75)-10, 100(68)-58, 101-30

Chandu Kansodaria (Maharashtra) beat Parthiv Jhaveri (Gujarat) 3-0

101-75, 100-52, 101(91)-16

Brijesh Damani (PSPB) beat D. Rajkumar (Karnataka) 3-0

101-40, 101(73)-43, 101(89)-39

Chandu Kansodaria (Maharashtra) beat Anseth Pareira (Jharkhand) 3-0

100-79, 100-65, 100-48

GROUP G

Devendra Joshi (PSPB) W/O Sanjay Bisht (Uttarakhand)

Malkeet Singh (RSPB) beat Puneet Kaushik (Delhi) 3-0

102-50, 103-38, 100-53

Nikhil Ghadge (RSPB) beat I.V. Rajeev (Andhra Pradesh) 3-2

59-100, 60-100, 100-92, 100-47, 100-67

GROUP H

Jaiveer Dhingra (Maharashtra) beat Ranjit M.N. (Telengana) 3-0

100(50)-68, 100(66)-00, 100-75

Pankaj Advani (PSPB) beat Subodh Lahiri (Uttar Pradesh) 3-0

101(82)-36, 102-36, 104(104)-00

Durga Prasad (RSPB) beat S. Simhachalam (RSPB) 3-0

101-62, 101-92, 100-65