Alok Kumar knocks out Nalin Patel (England) to confirm second medal for him and third for India by entering into Semi finals of World Billiards Long Up format.

Matthew Bolton from Australia suffered a shock exit in last 16 stage of 2013 World Billiards Long format losing 742-750 in a closely fought battle to Nalin Patel (England) here in Leeds.

Bhaskar kept the balls rolling for last 100 points to knockout former World No.2 and fellow countryman, Devendra Joshi in Last-32 stage match.

Bhaskar and Joshi, both were extra cautious and avoided any silly mistake that could lead any chance to other in last 32 match they played against each other. The match had no big break by either of them till both reach the 400 points mark on board but after that when Joshi missed a crucial shot, Bhaskar grabbed that last chance and converted into winning century break to step in Last 16.

After completion of Round Robin stage of World Billiards Long Up format, Peter Gilchrist from Singapore scored +1281 points with an average of 320.25 per match to win top seed position in knockout draw. He is followed by Ashok Shandilya, Martin Goodwill and Dhruv Sitwala scoring +1184 (296.00), +1177(294.25) and +876 (292.00) respectively.