Chawla, Kothari make final qualifying round of Indian Open

Saurav Kothari, Kamal Chawla and two others today made the cut for the final qualifying leg of the Indian Open 2013 World Professional Ranking Snooker tournament with clinical victories over their respective rivals in the Qualifiers Leg 2, which concluded here.
Varun Kumar and Pushpendra Singh also qualified from the Bangalore Leg which saw the participation of 116 cueists from almost every part of the country for the knock-out best-of-seven-frames qualifiers.
These four cueists will be joined by the quartet of Lucky Vatnani, Sundeep Gulati, Manish Jain and Faisal Khan who had qualified from the first qualifiers held in Delhi last month.

These cueists will take on the top-eight national ranked players in the final qualifier for the six wild card spots available to India as a host nation.
Pankaj Advani and Aditya Mehta, two of the finest Indian cueists, have already qualified for the 3,00,000 pound Indian Open to be played in the capital from October 14 to 18, giving fans a chance to see the best players of world snooker in action.
The five-day world ranking event will see top 64 cueists from across the globe battling for a whopping winner's prize purse of 50,000 pound.

Results:
Round 5: Kamal Chawla bt Varun Madan 4-1; Sourav Kothari bt Himanshu Jain 4-0; Varun Kumar bt IH Manudev 4-1; Pushpender Singh bt Rafath Habib 4-2.

Round 4: Chawla bt IV Rajeev 4-0; Madan bt Prem Prakash 4-1; Kothari bt Dilip Kumar 4-1; Jain bt Dhvaj Haria 4-1; Varun Kumar bt Rahul Sachdev 4-0; Manudev bt Santosh R 4-2; Pushpender Singh bt Loganathan R 4-3; Habib bt Balachandra Bhaskar 4-3.