Shrikrishna completes treble

The 17-year-old Chennai lad beat Sparsh Phermani of Maharashtra in his last National Junior billiards round robin league match 1075248. He had beaten Loukic Pathare of Maharashtra and TN mate Kaavya Bharath in the four-man league. In fact, it was a fruitful day for Tamil Nadu as Kaavya Bharath finished fourth in the championship.

Anupama Ramachandran of Tamil Nadu had an easy outing in the National Sub-Junior Girls Billiards Championship when she outplayed Sinchaana of Karnataka in the second round.

While Sinchaana looked like a beginner, she showed she has very good billiards ideas but she could not execute them properly. Anupama won 132-33 in the one-hour format. In the junior boys billiards competition, the clash was between two Tamil Nadu boys, Kaavya Bharath losing to S Shrikrishna, 455-895. In the sixth minute Shrikrishna scored 109 after setting top table and playing floating white and missed a simple cannon. 

In the subsequent visit, he made another 63 and went out of position. Kaavya responded with a 48 and went out of position with the three balls coming almost on the straight line and against the knap and the score was at 78-203. Shrikrishna was experimenting with floating white in the top table and missed a red being unsure of its availability at 71 with the score at 105-314. Kaavya responded with a 65 but Shri had things under control. On the other table, Loukic Pathare beat Sparsh Pherwani 703-313.