Four Indians move into last eight of Asian Billiards C'ship

Alok Kumar, Rupesh Shah, B. Bhaskar and K. Venkatesham all made the quarterfinals of the ONGC Asian billiards championship in Indore on Thursday. Alok and Rupesh won their third match in a row to qualify for the knockout stage. [caption id=“attachment_687795” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File picture of Rupesh Shah. AFP[/caption] Bhaskar, who lost his match against Rupesh,  also advanced. B. Venkatesham, who has one win and a loss, made the cut after Thailand’s Thawat Sujaritthurakarn defeated Myanmar’s Aung Htay. The results (Indians unless specified) Billiards - Group A: Thawat Sujaritthurakarn (Thai) bt Aung Htay (Myn) 88-104(83), 100(94)-8, 100(68)-33, 101(60)-7, 100(54)-20; Group B: Praput Chaithanasukan (Thai) bt Ashok Shandilya 7-101, 101(56)-50, 1000(98)-6, 100(100)-0, 100(92)-0. Group C: Rupesh Shah bt Nguyen Thanh Long (Vie) 100(101)-5, 101(99)-33, 101-61, 100(61)-15. Group D: Alok Kumar bt Surya Suwannasinh (Thai) 100-29, 50-100, 100(71)-66, 100(45)-73, 41-100(53), 100-22.