Advani,Chawla out of World Snooker Championship

Pankaj Advani and Kamal crashed out in semifinals of the IBSF World Snooker Championship.

In a major upset,seven-time world champion Pankaj Advani and Kamal Chawla crashed out in the semifinals of the IBSF World Snooker Championship here today.

Advani was thrashed 1-7 by Lee Walker of Wales,while Chawla lost 2-7 to Iran’s Hossein Vafei Ayouri in one-sided encounters.

Walker played a very calculated game,not giving an opening to Advani to gain the upper hand in each of the frames,except the first,which the Indian cueist won.

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Even after Advani found an opening,he could not capitalise on it and hit the ball crudely. The deftness in his earlier games were missing the Welshman.

On a high after beating former champion Thepchaiya Un-Nooh of Thailand in the last eight,giant-killer Walker crushed the local favourire Advani 68-82 61-41 69-39 115-0 85-42 67-28 108-33 73-52.

Advani claimed the first frame 82-68 despite Walker having a run of 56 break points. At 24-1 in the second,the Indian faltered to sink a blue and gave a chance to his rival to sneak past him claiming the frame 61-41 in next two visits.

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