Chitra, Praveen in title round of National Snooker
Submitted by Keval Sharma on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 15:07.
Pune, Jan 28 - Former World billiards champion Chitra Magimairaj from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu's Neena Praveen entered the final of the women's snooker event in the Manisha-National billiards and snooker championship, here Saturday.
In the semi-finals, Chitra overcame an in-form Arantxa Sanchis of Maharashtra 3-1, while Neena prevailed over Delhi youngster Keerath Bhandaal 3-2.
The Bangalore-based Chitra made sure that she did not get bogged down by Arantxa's slow and safety play to win 65-15, 64-29, 48-64, 56-13 and Neena scraped past Keerath 52-31, 36-62, 53-51, 47-58, 61-23, winning the crucial third frame on the black ball.
In the placing matches, former champion R Uma Devi finished fifth beating Maharashtra's Meenal Thakur 59-55, 67-47, while Heena Khandelwal of Maharashtra took the seventh position defeating Varsha Sanjeev of Karnataka
45-34, 72-42.
Earlier results:
Quarter-finals: Arantxa Sanchis (Mah) bt Varsha Sanjeev (Kar) 3-0; Chitra Magimairaj (Kar) bt R Uma Devi (Kar) 3-0; Keerath Bhandaal (Del) bt Heena Khandelwal (Mah) 3-0; Neena Praveen (TN) bt Meenal Thakur (Mah) 3-0.(IANS)
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