Veteran Indian cueist Alok Kumar and England's David Causier entered the final of the World Professional Billiards championship (150-up format) with similar 5-1 victory over Devendra Joshi and Rob Hall, respectively, here Friday.
Earlier results (Indian matches):
Quarter-finals: Alok Kumar bt Balachandra Bhaskar 4-3; Joshi bt Arun Agrawal 4-2; Rob Hall bt Rupesh Shah 4-3.
Pre-quarter-finals: Bhaskar bt Wayne Doyle (Ire) 4-1; Joshi bt Nalin Patel (Eng) 4-3; Arun Agrawal bt Michael Pearson (Aus) 4-0; Alok Kumar bt Dhruv Sitwala 4-1; David Causier bt Ashok Shandilya 4-0; Shah bt Phil Mumford (Eng) 4-0; Hall bt Siddharth Parikh 4-2.
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