Shahbaz stuns Mehta

Bengaluru:

Shahbaz Adil Khan

came up with the goods when it mattered to oust formidable Aditya

Mehta

4-3 in the second round of the Bangalore Snooker Academy’s all-India Open snooker tournament at its premises here on Friday.Shahbaz took a while to get into the groove, dropping the opening frame of the best-of-seven-frame encounter. Once he got his touch back, he looked a different player altogether, winning three straight frames.Just as it looked like

Shahbaz

would wrap things up, Aditya staged a brilliant fightback. He took the next two frames and push the issue to the decider. But Shahbaz dug into his reserves to take the seventh frame and book a spot in the pre-quarters.Defending champion Pankaj Advani despatched Sumehr Mago 4-1. Select results (Round 2): Shrikrishna bt Anurag Giri 4-1 (62-55, 49-70, 75-3, 109 (109) -1,74-54); Pankaj Advani bt Sumehr Mago 4-1 (97-19, 37-68, 91-28, 64-23, 92 (91) -0); Ishpreet Singh bt Santosh Naidu 4-2 (74-40, 74-8, 18-86, 27-77, 65-16, 80-37); Faisal Khan bt Dilip Kumar 4-2 (32-66, 103-11, 80-36, 35-65, 70-52, 70-30); Shahbaz Adil Khan bt Aditya Mehta 4-3 (49-60, 88-21, 60-56, 62-25, 19-72, 6-87, 75-32); Paras Gupta bt Laxman Rawat 4-3 (87-32, 9-94, 111-24, 36-66, 48-23, 49-72, 77-11); Brijesh Damani bt Monu Chowdary 4-0 (75-54, 54-8, 62-39, 65-9);

Sourav Kothari bt

Sufiyan Ahmed 4-0 (89-2, 76-25, 69-17, 85-10); Malkeet Singh bt Varun Kumar 4-0 (78-27, 114 (114) -0, 78-44, 64-1); Pushpender Singh bt IH Manudev 4-2 (54-73, 24-68, 68-24, 64-10, 63-22, 73-44); Kamal Chawla bt Rayan Razmi 4-3 (80-22, 1-78, 70-23, 21-68, 39-63, 86-4, 65-53). Round 1: Advani bt Rohit T 4-0; Mago bt Varshaa Sanjeev 4-1; Monu bt Vidya Pillai 4-1; Damani bt MS Arun 4-2; Md. Hussain bt Anupama R 4-0.