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Vidya in title round

By G. Viswanath

MUMBAI, JAN. 12. Vidya Pillai put herself in line for the National women's snooker title, trouncing Anuja Thakur in the semifinals of the Goregaon Sports Club National women's snooker championship here today.

Earlier in the quarterfinals, Vidya, who spends many hours at the MCC and Tamil Nadu Billiards and Snooker Association facility, was staring down the barrel against a seasoned campaigner in Uma Devi.

Routed in the first frame and trailing 58-61 in the second, advancing further seemed a remote chanceBeaten in the billiards final on Tuesday, Uma was not successful in her attempt to pot the pink. The second frame was down to the last two colours (pink-6 pts and black-7) and well within the grasp of the Karnataka player. Given a golden chance, Vidya grabbed it with both hands and sunk the two colours to win 71-61. She then breezed through the third frame and the match.

The results:

Ladies snooker: Semifinals: Vidya Pillai (TN) bt Anuja Thakur (Mah) 53-16, 59-19, 57-22; Quarterfinals: Vidya bt Uma Devi (Knt) 29-62, 71-61, 68-19, Meenal Thakur (Mah) bt Neena Pravin (TN) 36-49, 53-10, 55-14, Anuja bt Heena Khandelwal (Mah) 71-27, 51-9, Ashwini Puranik (MP) bt M. Chitra (Knt) 50-39, 88-46.

Junior billiards (main draw): Pre-quarterfinals: Pankaj Advani (PSPB) 852 bt Kunal Agarwal (Orissa) 111, Lucky Vitnani (AP) 347 bt Manish Jain (WB) 312, Rishabh Pandya (Mah) 324 bt Satish Kumar (Knt) 210, Aditya Metha (Mah) 484 bt Chetan Chabra (AP) 210.

Second round: Pankaj Advani (PSPB) 842 bt Nakul Patel (Guj) 156, Lucky Vitnani (AP) 345 bt Rahul Agarwal (MP) 305, Kunal Agarwal (Orissa) 271 bt Gautam Kalra (Knt) 250, Sourav Kothari (WB) 521 bt Paramjeet Singh (Raj) 178, Chetan Chabra (Q-AP) 329 bt Sumeet Talwar (Chandigarh) 282, Rishabh Pandya (Q-Mah) 288 bt K.J. Krishna (TN) 248, Manish Jain (WB) 353 bt Shivam Arora (Bihar) 267, Rishabh Thakkar 516 (Mah) bt Arpit Seth (Chandigarh) 118, Sandeep Samuel 369 (TN) bt Ruchir Masand (MP) 314, Hem Shroff (Guj) 453 bt Nihal Wadhawa (Knt) 353, Ajay Bhushan (Mah) 303 bt Aayush Kumar (Pnb) 262, Chintan Sampath (Mah) 303 bt Shyamal Sharma (Bihar) 276, Prateek Mehta (Mah) 320 bt Harinath Reddy (AP) 281,

First round: Kunal Agarwal (Orissa) 244 bt Hemanshu Arora (Raj) 203, Ruchir Masand (Q-MP) 261 bt Sureet Singh Orissa) 253, Shravan Mota (Mah) 467 bt Surendra Kumar (UP) 234.

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