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PANAJI
Reigning Junior and Sub-Junior India No 1 in Snooker and Billiards, S Shrikrishna of Tamil Nadu stormed into the quarter-finals of the all-India Open Snooker Championship being held at the BSAG Cue Sports Academy at Bambolim. He defeated Prateek Chaudhary from Karnataka 3-0.
Faisal Khan, 2015 Asia gold medallist from Karnataka, defeated Viren Sharma of Maharashtra 3-1 in an exciting pre-quarterfinal match earlier in the day.
Vijay Nichani from Tamil Nadu, former India No 3 got the better of giant-killer Ashutosh Padhy from Orissa 3-2. R Girish from Railways, current top-8 player in India for 6-Red and former top-32 in world snooker, defeated Sumit Sutradhar from
Assam 3-1. The tournament is poised for a great finish on Thursday with most of the top players advancing to the Round-of-8.
