The second session of today had a house pack audience on centre table of Northern Snooker Centre to witness an exciting match between Pankaj Advani and Rob Hall. The spectators had no disappointment as both the players exhibited their best and entertained everyone with a very high quality contest. However, one had to win and Advani did but both the cueists deserved to be acknowledged as winners in the virtual land.
In the last session of the day, efforts put in by Sourav Kothari with a break of 200 points went in vain when former World Champion Ashok Shandilya hammered with small but serial breaks of 80, 56, 98, 63, 98 and 75 to edge pass Kothari and beat him by 104 points. Till 100 minutes the match score was very close and it could be anyone's game but in the last moments of play a break of 75 points by Shandilya put him ahead of Kothari.
The defending champion, Peter Gilchrist of Singapore exhibited clinical game of billiards today morning and started his campaign in timed format of World Billiards 2014. He was playing against Wayne Doyle of Ireland where first he made a break of 103 and then the massive one 551 to reach total score of 976 in two hours game of round robin. In response to that Doyle managed 243 before losing to Gilchrist.
Pankaj Advani leaving no stone unturned against the stiff challenge he is receiving from Peter Gilchrist. The final of 2014 World Billiards (150Up) Championship had begun at 1300 hours UK Time and now at interval after 2 hours 30 minutes, Advani is leading 3-2.
The versatile and 10 time world champion Pankaj Advani is just a match away from another world title in cue-sports. The pro-turned Advani gave away his two years old professional snooker career for his true love of billiards and he has proving himself right that he always do in the game of three balls 'billiards' more passionately.
The last year champion of 150Up format World Billiards, David Causier failed to save his title and lost to Pankaj Advani of India in Last 16 stage.
Multiple time world champion Rupesh Shah faced a stiff competition in his first knockout match of last 32 stage from his compatriot and a player from his same club in India, Dhvaj Haria.
Shah started off well and soon pocketed first two games scoring decent breaks of 96 and 64 points when the Junior National Champion of India, Dhvaj made a comeback with a break of 90 points in response to 98 of Shah and pocketed the third game 150(98)-140(90).
Defending champion, David Causier of England was quick to enter in the Last 16 stage of 150Up format of World Billiards Championship 2014 here at Leeds in England.
The 150 Up event of World Billiards 2014 is stepping ahead towards the knockout stage from round-robin. As of now third session is on and two more sessions to go before the knockout draw gets ready.
Last year's timed event world champion, Peter Gilchrist saved his match from multiple time world champion Pankaj Advani. Gilchrist was down 2 games from where he recovered and pulled next three games in time to beat Advani 3-2.
