Kothari, Sitwala to play in Snooker Masters North Zone C'ship

India's top cueists, including Sourav Kothari and Dhruv Sitwala, will be seen in action in the RKG Snooker Masters North Zone championship, begining here tomorrow.
Apart from the duo, another notable cueists Rafath Habib, Sumit Talwar, Anuj Uppal and Dharminder Lilly will look to reign supreme at the green baize at the Megapool Snooker Academy in Dwarka.
The event is a build-up to the RKG-Khar Gymkhana Snooker Masters 2013, India's biggest Pro-Am Snooker tournament, from May 6 to 13 in Mumbai.
The tournament will boast of four top UK professionals and an equal number of Indian amateurs -- Pankaj Advani, Aditya Mehta, Yasin Merchant and Alok Kumar.

The prize money is the biggest offered in India at Rs 22 lakh.
The tournament, sponsored by former vice president of Delhi Billiards & Snooker Association, Ravindra Gupta and a brain child of two-time Asian champion Yasin Merchant, will see players reaching the last-32 stage getting an impressive sum of more than Rs two lakh.
The last four in the North Zone round of the championship will get a direct entry into the Mumbai event with a guarantee prize purse of Rs 25,000 each.