Nam Pham routs former world champion, Rupesh
- Written by Vivek Pathak - Media Officer, IBSF
Nam Pham of Vietnam
IBSF Media
Nam Pham of Vietnam routs two-time world champion Rupesh Shah in straight set of games 3-0 in a thrilling match today here at 2015 World Billiards Championship, Adelaide. Rupesh had not actually played bad but wherever he did mistake, Nam punished heavily.
In first games, Rupesh made a break of 57 and Nam scored 102 points break to take 1-0 lead. Similarly in second game too, Rupesh scored break of 92 and Nam produced 84. Game went to Nam and lead 2-0.
Third frame was crucial where Nam went for a high break and but missed on 87. Rupesh, however, failed to capitalized that chance and his visit ended after scoring 24 points but in next visit he played good and scored a break of 81 points. It appeared that he will made a come back by winnig that game, but he miscued and gave another chance to Nam.
Nam went steady and kept adding points to his score. In fact Rupesh also got two more chances but again he didn't used them properly and Nam punished him by adding required points to win 3-0.