Shahbaz retains junior snooker title

Mundir had the satisfaction of becoming the runners-up when in an important match of the juniors snooker league,he beat the upcoming Delhi boy Vipin Premi by 68-26,65-57,75-31 and 51-40 points.

Premi had to remain content with the third position beating Manjot Singh by 26-61,47-43,60-47,01-75,95-22 and 60-53 points in a cliff-hanger. In fact had Manjot been the luckier of the two in the sixth frame on the decisive black ball,the story may have been completely different.

In some of the senior billiards section matches,it was the great fighter from the Indian Railways,Siddarth Parikh who provided a big upset when he toppled the PSPB’s star cueist,Devendra Joshi by three games to one in the best of five games billiards league match. Losing the first game,suddenly Siddarth Parikh who has been at it for a number of years touched peak form to pulverize the seasoned Joshi in the next three games to emerge victorious by 26-101,101-30,102-91 and 101-45 points.

Earlier,Kanishka Jhanjharia of Madhya Pradesh took one game off Siddarth before he won by 3-1 games. But despite his fine show,Siddarth could not qualify from his group because he lost out to veteran Shakeel Ahmad of West Bengal by 1-3 games. As a result of this,it was Shakeel who made the last 16 grade in the seniors billiards event.

The prestiogious event is being organised by the Agra unit of the UP Billiards & Snooker Association (UPBSA).