Advani beat Xintong 8-6 to win his 15 world title
Pankaj, who had a long match against Lucas Kleckers of Germany in the
other semifinals yesterday warding off his challenge 7-5, quickly captured the
first 2 frames in the best of 15 finals with breaks of 106 and 56 in the first
and the second respectively. Xintong took the third with a break of 53 and when
in total control of the 4th got trapped by a deadly snooker behind brown ball.
Unable to convert the snooker Xintong gave Advani a half chance at the top end
which was immediately punished with a spectacular opening red stun pot along
the top cushion. Advani thereafter took full control of the proceedings to go
ahead 3-1
A deadly safety play by Advani once again put Xintong glued
to his seat with scoring only 1 point as Advani kept him trapping him under the
baulk line to get openings and went ahead by 4-1.
Xintong who was seen to be at the receivers end for the
first time in the championship certainly was not as smooth and controlled as he
had been all through to the finals and unexpectedly landed couple of times in
awkward positions while on a break. However, the talent was visible as every
time he came out of the situations unfolding his vast repertoire of strokes to
win the 6th frame with a finely crafted break of 72 points and brought
down the deficit to 2-4.
In the seventh Advani, well aware of the wide range of
potting and break building capability of his worthy adversary never got tempted
and applied his extraordinary cushion skills to every time come inside the
baulk line and kept Zhao at bay. At this juncture one could see the restlessness
in Zhao as he started over trying in desperation and ultimately succumbed to
the game plan of Advani. Calm, composed and sharp as always ever, Advani made
full use of the opportunity and crafted a well-controlled break of 74 points to
race ahead to a 5-2 lead at the interval.
Yesterday in the Women’s category Amee Kamani of India squandered her opportunity to be the first
women player from India
to reach the finals of IBSF world Snooker Championship. Amee was on song from
the very first stroke on the table against Anastasia Nechaeva of Russia
and quickly went up 2-0 in a best of seven frames semi-final clash with some
delectable long pots.
A finely constructed 62 breaks in the third by Anastasia
reduced the deficit to 1-2. Amee however came back strongly in the fourth and a
ding dong battle saw Amee going up 3-1. A couple of unforced errors by Amee in
fifth frame saw Anastasia claiming the frame and bringing the proceeding to
2-3. Amee who had all the opportunity to claim the sixth frame and the match
faltered a couple of times and send the match to the decider. In the decider
Anastasia was in her brilliant best as she crafted a magnificent match winning
break of 50 points exhibiting an array of strokes enviable to even the top
ranked men players of the world.
Wendy Jans of Belgium defeated Anastasia Nechaeva of Russia 5-1 to
retain her IBSF Women’s world title.
Yesterday was a bad day for India
in the Masters category too as all the good work by Rafath Habib went in vain
as he failed to reach the medal round losing on 3-4 in the last black ball to
Jason Peplow of Malta
in the quarterfinals.
Rafath who started with a massive break of 134 in the first
frame and another 57 in the fourth made it 3-3 and came from behind in the
decider with only one red on the table needing all the colour balls but
faltered on the last black and gave away the frame and the match to Peplow.
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