Dhvaj Haria of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board produced the biggest upset of the tournament ousting defending champion Sourav Kothari in the prequarters of the National Billiards Championship at the Bengal Rowing Club here today.
The result dashed the hope for the local favourite's much-anticipated duel against Pankaj Advani, who scored an easy 3-0 win against Manish Jain of West Bengal to make the quarters.
Haria posted a break of 137 to go one up 150-7 against his PSPB colleague who was quick to bounce back and level posting a break of 148.
But Haria reigned supreme in the third set and did not give Kothari any chance for a 151-0 win before sealing the issue in the fourth set with a 150-141 win.
Results:
Pankaj Advani (PSPB) beat Manish Jain (WB) 150(99)-8, 151(151)-0, 151(142)-11; Dhvaj Haria (PSPB) beat Sourav Kothari (PSPB) 150 (137)-7, 4-152(148), 151(110)-0, 150(65)-141 (88); Rupesh Shah (PSPB) beat Nikhil Ghadge (RSPB) 150(140)-64, 150 (93,51)-17, 150 (150)-0; Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB) beat Rafath Habib (RSPB) 150(120)-121(80), 150(90)-98, 150(58,92)-06; Siddharth Parikh (RSPB) beat Alok Kumar (PSPB) 151(82)-8, 105-150,150-110,12-150(91), 150(150)-5; Brijesh Damani (PSPB) beat Devendra Joshi (PSPB) 3-275(51)-151, 151(78)-113(51), 151(65)-29, 119-150 (86), 151(51)-27; B Bhaskar beat Vishal Madan 86-151 (80), 150 (57)-76, 151(55,81)-136 (67), 152 (63,37)-87(52); Jaiveer Dhingra b Ashok Shandilya 150-141, 150-41, 51-150, 150-106.
