The Karnataka boy IH Manudev has upset the second seeded Delhi's Manan Chandra in the men's National Senior Snooker Championship on Tuesday. In another match Dhruv Sitwala survived from a scare of Railway cueist Hemant Kumar.

The unseeded Manudev went past Chandra of PSPB in straight frames by 27-82, 39-55, 55-67 in a Group B match.

In another neck-to-neck match, PSPB’s Sitwala ousted Hemant 1-65, 46-58, 55-08, 63-45, 83(62)-11. Sitwala outplayed Goa's Nicholas D'Souza (3-0) 71-11, 62-22, 67-18 in second match later in the day.

Meanwhile, National Billiards champion Pankaj Advani registered an easy win against Haryana's Divya Sharma in straight frames by 74-28, 79-16, 83-09. Geet Sethi, National Billiards champion runner-up, raced away with the match against Chandigarh boy Sandeep Duggal 74-2, 59-10, 72-16.

The Asian gold medalist Ashok Shandilya also registered victory in both matches after defeating Kerala boy Akhil Jhonson 71-35, 79-12, 64-27 and Shyam Jagtiani 97-04, 46-58, 89-31, 60-39 in back to back matches.

PSPB's Rupesh Shah beat Orissa's Jeet Kishore Das by 35-67, 74-26, 74-21, 81-20 after going down into the first frame while Saurav Kothari outclassed Madhya Pradesh's Rahul Agarwal 66-29, 73-34, 78-29.