Kothari, Parikh hog limelight

MUMBAI: Sourav Kothari hogged the limelight as he strung up two double century breaks in each of his wins against Maharashtra players Arun Agrawal and Nishant Dossa in his Group H league engagements in the Cricket Club of India Billiards Classic 2018, here on Thursday.

Siddharth Parikh of Railways made a bright start winning his opening two Group E matches against Loukic Pathare and S Simhachalam. Meanwhile, Alok Kumar and Neeraj Kumar won their respective concluding Group D matches to qualify for the pre-quarter finals.

YASH, SANYA CLINCH U-19 TITLES

Talented 16-year-old Yash Fadte of Goa produced a great performance to defeat Chaitanya Shah of Mumbai 11-8, 11-6, 9-11, 11-5 and emerge champion at the 3rd Indian Classic Junior Open Squash Tournament at the Bombay Gymkhana glass-back squash courts on Thursday.

In the girls’ U-19 final, Sanya Vats defeated top-seed Amita Gondi 11-6, 9-11, 11-5, 11-2 to clinch the title.

RAWAT OUTSHINES AGRAWAL

Laxman Rawat of Bombay Gymkhana enjoyed a good rolls of the balls and with some consistent perfect potting eased past Aditya Agrawal of Elphinstone CC by a 1-5 margin in a semi-final match of the ECC All India Open 6-Red Snooker Tournament 2018, played at the Elphinstone Cricket Club billiards room.

Results (semi-finals): Laxman Rawat (Bombay Gym) beat Aditya Agrawal (Elphinstone CC) 5-1 (8-32, 68(50)-0, 46(34)-10, 43-24, 58(30)-17, 45-35); Mohd. Hissain Khan (Rlys) beat Siddharth Parikh (Hindu Gym) 5-3 (386, 23-32, 36-11, 29-34, 1-50, 25-17, 40-13, 41-0). Quarter-finals: Laxman Rawat (Bombay Gym) beat Shahbaz Khan (CCI) 5-4 (34-0, 12-50, 13-39, 6-28, 36-17, 62-2, 34-7, 32-41, 40-8);Mohd. Hissain Khan (Railway) beat Anurag Giri (MP) 5-4 (14-39, 49-38, 35-31, 15-47, 39-5, 1440. 44-17, 31-11); Aditya Agrawal (ECC) beat Hasan Badami (CCI) 5-4 (4-41, 5326, 27-33, 23-43, 17-33, 44-13, 34-9, 38-4, 41-14); Siddharth Parikh (Hind Gym) beat Faizal Khan (Khar Gym) 5-3 (5-59, 0-60(60), 41-0, 10-40, 39-9, 35-32, 3827, 39-16).

MUMBAI MARINE ROMP TO FLUENT 4-1 VICTORY

SDKT Mumbai Marine struck good form to register a fluent 4-1 win against Navkar FC in a Third Division match of the MDFA League 2018-19 and played at the St Xavier’s ground, Parel. Results (Div III): SDKT Mumbai

Marine 4 (Shreyas More 2, Roshan Thakur, Amogh Tetambe) beat Navkar FC 1 (Bhavik Chedda); South Mumbai Naunehal 3 (Sameer Shaikh, Raees Shaikh, Arsalan Mansoori) beat

Football Leaders Academy 0.