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Premi loses again

Indore: India's Vipin Premi suffered his second defeat on the trot as he went down 3-0 to Thailand's Chinnapat Kamsad in the ongoing Asian under-21 snooker championship here on Thursday.

On the opening day on Wednesday, Premi had bit the dust against China's Liu Chuang 3-1 (68-28, 46-78, 63-11, 66-14) at the Yashwant Club sports complex.

Chinnapat played steadily and took the first two frames easily in best of five frames encounter. In the third one, Premi took the initial lead with a break of 29, but the Thai narrowed the margin with some decent knocks and good safeties. In the end, a difficult miss of the pink by Premi saw Chinnapat win 72-21, 71-26, 65-50.

In another match, Rayan Somaratne of Sri Lanka registered his first win by defeating Lawa Shakr Mazal of Iraq 3-1 after losing to Hong Kong's Wong Yun Shing.

Chua survives

The third match was the crowd puller in which Chua Weisheng Javier of Singapore beat Leong Mah Hoi of Hong Kong in deciding frame.

The 14-year-old Man Hoi lost the first frame in a black-ball game, but troubled Chua in the next two frames to move ahead. However, Chua held his nerve and outplayed Leong 3-2.

Meanwhile, Shahbaz Khan of India had got off to an impressive start on Wednesday by defeating Singapore's Ong Jia Jun 3-0.

Thursday's results: Group A: Chua Weisheng Javier (Sin) bt Leong Man Hoi (HK) 3-2 (57-47, 24-75, 44-77, 66-24, 67-9). Group C: Chinnapat Kamsad (Tha) bt Vipin Premi (Ind) 3-0 (72-21, 71-26, 65-50). Group D: Rayan Somaratne (SL) bt Lawa Shakr Mazal (Irq) 3-1 (65-49, 27-50, 80-13, 71(40)-22) . — PTI

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