National Billiards And Snooker Championships: Malkeet Singh Becomes 6-Red Champion, Pankaj Advani Finishes 4th – News18

Malkeet Singh has emerged as the brand new National 6-Red snooker males’s champion, beating his RSPB colleague E Pandurangaiah within the last on the ongoing National Billiards and Snooker Championships in Chennai.

Singh defeated Pandurangaiah 7-5 in a keenly-contested greatest-of-13 frames summit conflict on Saturday.

Earlier, he had give you a morale-boosting come-from-behind 6-5 conquer favorite and 26-time IBSF world champion Pankaj Advani (PSPB) within the semi-last stage.

Pandurangaiah got here into the title spherical excessive on confidence after getting previous a fancied Aditya Mehta (PSPB) 6-4 within the different semi-last.

Regardless, it was former champion Advani’s loss, after having all however sealed the match at 5-3, which left the Indian cue sports activities neighborhood astounded.

Malkeet prevailed within the last three frames 59-0, 43-1, 67-13 in a sensational vogue in opposition to Advani to register the best upset within the occasion.

“Malkeet held his nerve and got the better of me towards the end,” mentioned Advani, final version’s runner-up, who later additionally misplaced the third-place playoff to Mehta.

In girls’s 6-Red snooker, defending champion Vidya Pillai (Karnataka) might be headlining a robust quarterfinal discipline that features the reigning IBSF world U-21 snooker champion Keerthana Pandian (Karnataka) and runner-up Anupama Ramachandran (Tamil Nadu).

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