Indore: India's Vipin Premi suffered his
second defeat on the trot as he went down 3-0 to Thailand's
Chinnapat Kamsad in the ongoing Asian Under-21 Snooker
championship here today.
On the opening day yesterday, Premi had bit dust against
China's Liu Chuang 3-1 (68-28 46-78 63-11 66-14) at Yashwant
Club sports complex.
Chinnapat played steadily and took the first two frames
easily in best of five frames encounter. In the third one,
Premi took the initial lead with a break of 29, but the Thai
boy narrowed the margin with some decent knocks and good
safeties.
In the end, a difficult miss of Pink ball by Premi
awarded the match to Chinnapat 72-21 71-26 65-50.
In other match, Rayan Somaratne of Sri Lanka registered
his first win defeating Lawa Shakr Mazal of Iraq 3-1 (65-49
27-50 80-13 71(40)-22) after losing last night to Hongkong's
Wong Yun Shing.
The third match was the crowd puller in which, Chua
Weisheng Javier of Singapore beat Leong Mah Hoi of Hong Kong
in decider frame. The 14-year-old Man Hoi lost the first frame
in black-ball game, but troubled Chua in the next two frames
and moved ahead. Then in next two frames, Chua hold his nerve
and outplayed Leong 3-2.
Yesterday, Shahbaz Khan of India went off to an
impressive start defeating Singapore's Ong Jia Jun 3-0 in
straight frames.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, April 08, 2010, 21:50