Tweet
Mumbai, Oct 26 (PTI) World professional champion Pankaj Advani and compatriot Geet Sethi have been given byes straight into the prequarter-finals of the Asian Games billiards championship at Guangzhou, China next month. The two Indian cue aces have been placed at the opposite ends of the draw as the no.
1 and 2 seeds and would not meet each other before the gold medal clash. Advani, who has left for Leeds in England to defend his world crown, would also be defending the gold medal he won four years ago in the Asian quadrennial extravaganza at Doha, Qatar and would meet either Do Hoang Quan of Vietnam or Ricky Yang of Indonesia in his first tie.
A victory will set up a tough quarter final for Advani against veteran Thai cueist C Praprut who is expected to down Reynaldo Grandea of the Philippines in his opener. Sethi, who is a multiple time world champion in the three-ball green baize game and has also departed for Leeds, would also be up against a preliminary round winner (either Myanmar''s Oo Nay Thway or Thanh Long Nguyen (Vietnam) for a berth in the last eight.
Tall England-born player Peter Gilchrist, of Singapore, looms as a major threat for Sethi at the semi final stage where both are expected to reach. Advani will also be participating in the snooker singles event along with fellow-Indian Aditya Mehta.
(More) PTI SSR VKV ATK.
Powered by WizardRSS | Full Text RSS Feeds
