SPO-BILLIARDS-CCI

Sourav Kothari slams two double century breaks
    Mumbai, Aug 16 (PTI) Kolkata-based Sourav Kothari of
ONGC showed excellent cue touch to slam two double century
breaks while easing his way past Arun Agrawal and Nishant
Dossa in the Rs 3.8-lakh prize money CCI Billiards Classic
2018 here today.
    The former Asian billiards champion, playing fluently
and striking the balls with regular consistency, compiled a
mammoth break of 247 as he went on to outclass Dossa 624-169
late last evening.
    He returned today and maintained his impressive form
by firing a break of 261 on way to drub Agrawal 658-96 in
Group H.
    With his third successive victory, Kothari is assured
of qualifying to the knockout round of 16 draw along with
Dhruv Sitwala, who also has three wins in the five-team group.
    Mumbai-based Siddharth Parikh of the Railways made a
bright positive start winning his opening two Group-E matches.
    Parikh scraped past Maharashtra's Loukic Pathare 374-
349 after earlier defeating teammate S Simhachalam 669-189.
    Alok Kumar of ONGC and Neeraj Kumar of the Railways
also won their respective concluding Group-D matches and
qualified for the pre-quarter-finals.
    Results: Group-A: Dhvaj Haria (IOC) beat Ashok
Shandilya (Rlys) 478(193,96)-264; Raajeev Sharma (Mah) beat
Sandeep Gulati (Del) 367-307; Raajeev Sharma beat Hasan Badami
(Mah) 283-261.
    Group-B: Nikhil Ghadge (Rlys) beat Aditya Mehta (Mah)
304(81,54)-294(60,74); Group-C: V. Subramaniam (Mah) beat
Shekhar Surve (Mah) 271(61,106)-220.
    Group-D: Alok Kumar (ONGC) beat Aditya Agrawal (Mah)
514(103,94,79)-313; Neeraj Kumar (Rlys) beat Aditya Agrawal
(Mah) 376-304; Aditya Agrawal (Mah) beat Raayan Razmi (Mah)
473(85,54,60,71)-303.
    Group-E: Siddharth Parikh (Rlys) beat S. Simhachalam
669(130,104,67,53)-189; Siddharth Parikh (Rlys) beat Loukic
Pathare (Mah) 374(87,89)-349(54,73).
    Group-F: Hitesh Kotwani (Mah) beat Raj Khandwala (Mah)
550(88,84)-233; K Venkatesh (Rlys) beat Devendra Joshi (BPCL)
499 (54,51)-248.
    Group-G: Brijesh Damani (IOC) beat Rishabh Kumar (Mah)
554(149,79)-296;
    Group-H: Dhruv Sitwala (ONGC) beat Arun Agrawal (Mah)
499(92,76,73)-220; Sourav Kothari (ONGC) beat Nishant Dossa
(Mah) 624-(247,138,103)-169(50); Kothari beat Agrawal
658(105,80,261,90)-96. PTI SSR
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