Easy win for Kamal Chawla

Bangalore, Sep 2 (IANS):

India No.2 Kamal Chawla from Bhopal stamped his authority with a thumping 4-0 win over G. Sridhar to lead the field into the fourth round of the qualifying competition for the World Snooker Indian Open here Monday.

Meanwhile, Kolkata-based Sourav Kothari ended the run of 72-year-old former national champion and World No.4 Arvind Savur of Bangalore 4-2. Earlier, Savur beat Suffiyan Ahmed 4-3 in the third round.

Juniors Dhvaj Haria and Himanshu Jain marked their presence by defeating the more experienced Balaji Reddy and K.S. Naveen, respectively, to advance to the fourth round.

The results:

Third round: Kamal Chawla bt G.Sridhar (AP) 4-0; Prem Prakash bt L Nagaraj 4-0; IH Manudev bt M Prabhakar 4-0; Sourav Kothari bt Arvind Savur 4-2; Rafath Habib bt Sheetal Kumar 4-1; Balachandra.Bhaskar bt Rohan M 4-1; IV Rajeev bt Deepinder Singh 4-2; Varun Madan bt Vishal Vaya 4-1; Dhvaj Haria bt Balaji Reddy 4-3; Himanshu Jain bt KS Naveen Kumar 4-1; Dilip Kumar bt Rishab Pandya 4-2; Pushpinder Singh bt Jasim Tawin 4-1; Rahul Sachdev bt Arjun.AR 4-1; Varun Kumar bt Subrat Das 4-1; Loganathan R bt D Raj Kumar 4-2; Santosh R bt Anuj Uppal 4-2.

Second round: Balaji Reddy (Kar) bt Peter Paul (TN) 4-0; Deepinder Singh (Pun) bt Suman.S (Kar) 4-1; G Sridhar (AP) bt Partiban (TN) 4-0; Rishab Pandya (Mah) bt Sean Davis (Kar) 4-2; Varun Madan bt Anand Raghuvanshi 4-1; Sourav Kothari (PSPB) bt Kunal Rokade (Mah) 4-0; Rohan M bt Nihaal Wadhwa 4-2; Himanshu Jain bt Sunil Sharma 4-1; Dhvaj Haria (Guj) bt Vidya Pillai (Kar) 4-1; Dilip Kumar (TN) bt Deepak.A (Kar) 4-1; L Nagaraj (Kar) bt Anand HE (Kar) 4-0; IV Rajeev (AP) bt Mithun V 4-0; Kamal Chawla (Rlys) bt Germain Girish (Kar) 4-0; Pushpinder Singh (Rlys) bt Jehan Williams 4-2; Rafath Habib (Rlys) bt Pramod Kumar (Kar) 4-0; Balachandra Bhaskar (Kar) bt Viren Sharma 4-1; IH Manudev (kar) bt Asif Altaf (Kar) 4-0; Rahul Sachdev (Mah) bt Michael Rebello (Kar) 4-0; M Prabhakar (Kar) bt Mahesh Adithya 4-1; Loganathan R (TN) bt Zubin Lelinwala (Mah) 4-0; Santosh R (Kar) bt Nikhil Pise (Kar) 4-3; Vishal Vaya bt Shyam Jagtiani (Rlys) 4-2; KS Naveen Kumar (Kar) bt Suddin Maldini (Kar) 4-1; Arjun.AR (Kar) bt Lalrina Renthlei (Miz) 4-2; Arvind Savur (Kar) bt Suffiyan Ahmed (Kar) 4-3; Varun Kumar bt John Samuel 4-0; Jasim Tawin (Kar) bt Ravi Verma (Kar) 4-1; Anuj Uppal bt Madhu Chandra 4-3; Prem Prakash bt Abhijit Rannade 4-1; D Raj Kumar bt Wasim Ahmed 4-0; Subrat Das (Ori) bt V.Anand (Kar) 4-2.