Geet Sethi, Sandeep Gulati, Varun Kumar in pre-quarters

Chennai: Veteran Geet Sethi and qualifiers Sandeep Gulati and local player Varun Kumar made it to the

pre-quarterfinals of the VIP Matrix All-India invitational snooker tournament here today. Sethi scored a fluent 4-2 win over Devendra Joshi of Bharat Petroleum, while Varun Kumar scalped higher rated Indian player Sourav Kothari 4-1. Gulati got the better of national junior champion Shabaz Adil Khan. The results: Group A: Pankaj Advani (PSPB) bt I H Manudev (Kar) 4-0. Group B: J Varun Kumar (Tamil Nadu) bt Sourav Kothari (PSPB) 4-1. Group C: Kamal Chawla (Railways) bt Sridhar (AP) 4-1. Group D: Alok Kumar (PSPB) bt Jagan Williams (Tamil Nadu) 4-2. Group E: Manan Chandra (PSPB) bt Faisal Khan (Railways) 4-3. Group F: Aditya Mehta (PSPB) bt Imran Ganj (Tamil Nadu) 4-0. Group G: Geet Sethi (Guj) bt Devendra Joshi (PSPB) 4-2; Sethi bt Girish Rajasekar (Railways) 4-3. Group H: Sandeep Gulati (Delhi) bt Shabaz Adil Khan (PSPB) 4-3; Gulati bt Rupesh Shah (PSPB) 4-3. PTI