Rahul Sachdev unbreakable

Goes unscratched to notch up a 91-break

Rahul Sachdev (Scratch handicap) grabbed all the attention with an unbeaten 91 break, the highest in the tournament. Sachdev along with his partner Himanshu Jain, also playing with a scratch handicap, outshone the Khar Gymkhana duo of Sahil Kakad (+30) and Manoj Kasare (+30) by a 3-1 margin, in a second round match of the Khar Gymkhana Snooker Shootout, at Khar Gymkhana’s Yasin Merchant Snooker Room, on Thursday.

The southpaw cueist Sachdev got off to a poor start as he lost to Kasare 64-90 in the opening 15-red frame. But his teammate Jain won the 6-red second frame defeating Kakad by a narrow 47-39 margin to draw level. Later, the Sachdev and Jain combination proved too good for the Kakad and Kasare pairing and comfortably won the 15-red doubles contest by an 88-53 margin. Sachdev and Kasare once clashed in the 15-red fourth frame, but this time the former was in full flow and with precision potting compiled the massive effort to outclass his rival by cruising to 108-49 win and seal the match. Results (Rd-2): Mohsin Achhava (+30) / Karmesh Patel (+20) bt Kreishh Gurbaxani (+10)/Sparsh Pherwani (+10) 3-1; Md. Hussain (+10) / Ketan Chawla (SCR) bt Sanjeev Bijlani (+30) / Amit Sapru (+30) 3-1; Vishal Gehani (+30) / Ameya Sankhala (+40) bt Rafath Habib (SCR) / S Dilipkumar (SCR) 3-0; Hasan Badami (SCR) / Mukund Bharadiya (SCR) bt Rohan Sakalkar (+20) / Samar Khandelwal (+20) 3-0; Rahul Sachdev (SCR) / Himanshu Jain (SCR) bt Sahil Kakad (+30) / Manoj Kasare (+30) 3-1; Rd-1: Niraj Vasava (+30) / Vismay Gadhiya (+40) bt Prashant Chavan (+30) / Shahbaz Khan (+10) 3-2.