Alok Kumar avenged his Point Format final defeat against England's David Causier by carving out a narrow 400-375 win in the World Professional Billiards Championship here.
Alok led a bunch of 14 Indians into the Round of 32 in the Time Format of the tournament.
Both Alok and Causier were under pressure but the veteran Indian cueist maintained his composure, when needed the most, to overcome his English opponent.
Results (India matches):
Group A: Alok Kumar bt David Causier (Eng) 400-375. Group B: Dhvaj Haria bt Stephen Kershaw (Eng) 400-147; bt John Mcintyre (Northern Ireland) 400-76; lost to Mathew Bolton (Aus) 309-400; bt Carl Walter Steiner (Aus) 400-00. Group D: Subramanian Venkateswaran lost to Ian Williamson (Eng) 154-400; lost to Peter Gilchrist (Sing) 65-400; bt Kien Nguyen (Vie) 400-203; bt Anna Lynch (Aus) 400-160. Group F: B Bhaskar bt Peter Atkinson (Eng) 400-212; bt Gaye Jones (Eng) 400-46; bt Wane Carey (NZ) 400-195; bt Phil Mumford (Eng) 400-300.
Group G: Aditya Agarwal bt Martin Budge (Eng) 400-97; bt Nam Pham (Vie) 400-283; lost to Martin Goodwill (Eng) 130-400; lost to Arthur Winn (Eng) 251-400.
Group H: Rupesh Shah bt Peter Tankard (Aus) 400-149. Group I: Sourav Kothari bt Siddharth Parekh (Ind) 400-141. Group K: Dhruv Sitwala bt Arun Agarwal (Ind) 400-134. Group L: D Raj Kumar bt Martin Schmidt (Aut) 400-120. Group M: Geet Sethi bt Devendra Joshi 400-203.; bt Grant Meadley (Aus) 400-105; bt Eva Palimius (Eng) 400-122; Joshi bt Palmius 400-116; bt Meadley 400-172.
