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India’s Ketan Chawla began his Asian Snooker Championships run with a gritty 4-2 triumph implicit Mohanna Alobaidli successful his opening Group ‘B’ lucifer present connected Saturday.
The 33-year-old from Indore, coming disconnected a third-place decorativeness astatine the Nationals recently, jumped to a speedy 3-0 pb successful the best-of-seven-frame lucifer with meaningful breaks.
Chawla could person won successful consecutive frames, but mislaid the 4th connected the black.
The Qatari past came up with a good interruption of 61 to trim the margin.
But earlier overmuch harm could beryllium done, Chawla upped his crippled a fewer notches to adjacent retired the lucifer successful the sixth frame.
The Indian adjacent takes connected erstwhile champion Amir Sarkhosh of Iran.
Elsewhere, India’s Laxman Rawat, a erstwhile IBSF World 6-red snooker champion, went down 3-4 to Iran’s Shahin Sabzi successful Group ‘J’.
After splitting the archetypal 4 frames, Rawat took the important 5th to spell up 3-2.
Unfortunately, helium failed to physique connected the gains arsenic the Iranian came backmost powerfully to instrumentality the adjacent 2 frames for a hard-fought victory.
Results: Group B: Ketan Chawla (Ind) bushed Mohanna Alobaidli (Qat) 4-2 (61-29, 73-58, 56-35, 58-59, 37-89 (61), 64-24).
Group ‘J’: Shahin Sabzi (Irn) bushed Laxman Rawat (Ind) 4-3 (74-38, 44-64, 79 (67) -45, 34-45, 37-61, 74-8, 75-18).
