Sangeeta meets B. Keshwa in opening tie of CCI snooker tourney

Thelone woman cueist in the fray, Sangeeta Hemchand of CCI, will take on B. Keshwa of the Goregaon Club in the opening round match of the CCI Open Snooker Championship 2018 here tomorrow.
Two other cueists from CCI, Devesh Sharma and Rishabh Amin will also be seen in action on the first day of the Rs 12.25 lakh prize money tournament.
Sharma will meet Sachin Bhoir of Thane in the morning while later in the day Amin will clash with Krishnam Vohra of Otters Club, a media release issued here said today.
Meanwhile, leading players Aditya Mehta, Pankaj Advani, national champion Sumit Talwar of Chandigarh and runner-up Malkeet Singh of Railways, Yasin Merchant, Sonic Multani and the other top six ranked Indians have been directly seeded in the round of 32.

In the initial rounds, matches will be played on four tables and in four sessions with the first starting at 10 A.M and the last at 4.30 P.M.
The tournament, which is the richest prize-money event in the country, has attracted an overwhelming response with almost 220 cueists vying for the top prize of Rs 2 lakh.