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Anuja wins third title in a row

By G. Viswanath

MUMBAI, JAN. 11. Anuja Thakur won her third National women's billiards title in a row here at the Goregaon Sports Club on Tuesday. The final turned out to be a tame affair and particularly disappointing for the challenger, Karnataka's Uma Devi.

The 22-year old Maharashtra girl was in total control and dominated the final that lasted for an hour.

Though down by a few points in the opening game of the 50 up format best-of-three game title match, she settled down quickly to run up an unfinished break of 40 to take the initiative. Anuja won the second game comfortably.

Uma Devi had an outside chance to pull one back, but ran out of position at 45-all after which Anuja pocketed the game and match. "I am obviously delighted to win the title for the third time in a row. I won the title at Jammu, Gwalior and now at home,'' said Anuja.

The results: Women's Billiards final: Anuja Thakur (Mah) bt Uma Devi (Knt) 3-0 (52-25, 51-40, 50-45).

Women's snooker round robin: Group `A': P. Soundarya (TN) bt Heena Khandelwal (Mah) 13-56, 68-47,66-61, Meenal Thakur (Mah) bt Soumini Srinivasan (TN) 57-20, 62-36; Group `B': Kamala Chandra Babu (TN) bt Sonal Mamoonwala (Mah) 69-63, 38-62, 45-37, Uma Devi (Knt) bt Sonal Mamoonwala (Mah) 59-15, 51-4, Ashwini Puranik (MP) bt Suniti Damani (WB) 51-16, 77-1, bt Kamala Chandra Babu (TN) 69-5, 53-41, Group `C': Anuja Thakur (Mah) bt Neeeta Kothari (WB) 74-11, 96-6, Neeta Sanghvi (Mah) bt Tusha Rastogi (Mah) 56-13, 72-29; Group `D': M. Chitra (Knt) bt Vidya Pillai (TN) 69(24)-40, 57-22, bt Ritu Shrivastava (MP) 44-57, 60-32, 75-26, Ritu Shrivastava (MP) bt Neha Sanghvi (Mah) 45-32, 50-21, Sangeeta Hemchand (Mah) bt Neeta Sanghvi (Mah) 47-15, 73-44.

Quarterfinal draw: Meenal Thakur vs Neena Pravin, Ashwini Puranik vs M. Chitra, Anuja Thakur vs Heena Khandelwal and Vidya Pillai vs Uma Devi.

Juniors snooker qualifying: Satish Kumar (Knt) bt Mohd. Nabeel (TN) 62-51, 57-39, 25-69, 43-112, 80-38, Arvind Kumar (AP) bt Amardeep Singh (Mah) 58-22, 59-14, 59-60, 53-33, Ranbir Roy (Bihar) bt K. Gautam (Knt) 47-35, 25-72, 67-41, 68-20, Rishabh Pandya bt Rohan Anand 81-70, 65-7, 16-38, 75-23, Arvind Kumar (AP) bt Satish Kumar (Knt) 71-23, 58-18,77-8, Mrinal Modak bt Kiran Chawla 70-25, 65-9, 73-23, Vaibhav Mehra bt Ruchir Masand 41-55, 54-8, 36-61, 55-12, 48-39, K. Murugesan (TN) bt Roshan Dalwani 62-45, 61-15, 66-11, Rishabh Pandya (Maharashtra) bt Ranbir Roy (Bihar) 66-22,44-62,48-31,71-28.

Qualifiers for the main draw: Mrinal Modak (Mah), Arvind (AP), Vaibhav Mehra (Bihar), Rishabh Pandya (Mah).

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