Easy victory for Alok, Sachin

LUDHIANA: The Trident National 8Ball and 9Ball Pool championship 2011 started at Sutlej Club on Friday.
In the first stage matches of 8Ball Pool, all the top slot contenders sailed smoothly winning their first matches comfortably.
Asian Games bronze medalist Alok Kumar defeated Delhi's Ashok Singh in straight sets 5-0. Kamal Chawla of Railways and Sundeep Gulati of Delhi also won their matches comfortably 5-1 against their opponents.It was an overall good show by Punjab players such as Dhruv Varma, Hitesh Soni, Joy Mehra, Sanjeev Bhalla and Sourav Mittal.
Results: Joy Mehra (Pb) beat Periyar Selvam (TN) 5-0, Hitesh Soni (Pb) beat Rahul Berlia (WB) 5-3, Prince Goyal (Har) bt Aman Sood (Pb) 5-4, Dhruv Varma (Pb) bt Sashi Kumar (TN) 5-0, Sundeep Gulati (Dli) bt Sajan Goyal (Pb) 5-1, Lalit Dahiya (Dli) bt Goldy Kashyap (Pb) 5-0, Aneesh Saini (Har) bt SAchin Vohra (Chd) 5-0, Sanjeev Bhalla (Pb) bt Yash Mehan (Pb) 5-2, Balaji Reddy (Ktk) bt Rajiv Bhalla (Pb) 5-0, Ajay Singhla (Har) bt Nayan Narsinh (Gj) 5-3, Sourav Mittal (Pb) bt Sahil (Har) 5-2, Navneet Malhotra (Pb) bt Hansit Singh Kohli (Dli) 5-3, Vipin Sethi (Dli) bt Romi Mallick (Pb) 5-1, Neeraj Kumar (Rly) bt Vaibhav Goel (Har) 5-2, Anupam Jha (Bh) bt Manoj Verma (Pb) 5-0, Deepak Hanspal (Pb) bt Shariq Khan (Del) 5-0, Simranpreet Singh (Pb) bt Neerav Jasuja (Har) 5-0, Rajat Kaura (Pb) bt Nilangshu Haldar (WB) 5-2, Bhupinder Singh (Dli) bt Sunil Aulakh (Pb) 5-2, Kamal Chawla (Rly) bt Chandan Gupta (Pb) 5-1, Alok Kumar (PSPB) bt Ashok Singh (Dli) 5-0.