EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, April 19: New comer Pankaj Sharma today upset third-seed, Ishan Choudhary beating latter 2-1 in the second round of the junior snooker event in the Jammu District Open Billiards and Snooker Championship underway at Billiards Hall, MA Stadium, here. With today’s win, Pankaj, along with 15 other cueists, sailed into the third round of pre-quarterfinals of junior snooker championship. Besides Ishan, two other seeded cueists also suffered defeat in the second round today. They were seventh seed, Abhinav Sharma and eighth-seed, Nitish Mahajan.
The Detailed Results: Nitin Sharma bt Mandeep Singh 2-0 (67-34, 68-28); Rohit Sodhi bt. Rajat 2-0 (67-30,63-49); Rahil Gupta bt Ankit gupta 2-1 (24-81, 50-26, 57-30); Burhan Khan bt Kanav Nayyar 2-0 (54-35, 63-32); Abhishek Goswami bt Gaurav Chibber 2-0 (49-39, 57-28); Rishabh Bakshi bt Ali Goni 2-1 (21-62, 61-22, 64-51); Sachin Bamba bt Aditya Sharma 2-0 (64-23, 61-18); Jaswinder Singh bt Safandeep Singh 2-0 (36-31, 58-25); Aditya Sharma bt Nouman Manzoor 2-0 (61-47, 58-33); Saurabh bt Janu Gupta 2-0 (53-52, 58-41); Pankaj Sharma bt Ishan Chowdhary 2-1 (59-08, 27-52, 52-30); Karan Verma bt Deepak Singh 2-1 (59-37, 34-57, 46-25); Gautam Jamwal bt Suraj Dev Singh 2-0 (62-15, 47-15); Rohit Jamwal bt Nikhil Verma 2-1 (49-21, 44-45, 65-26). Bhanu Gupta bt Hari Vaid 2-0 (50-04, 45-15); Gagan Deep bt Rahul Jamwal 2-1 (48-39, 41-53, 83-63).
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