Top-ranked Pankaj Advani of ONGC showed his class as he uncorked champagne stuff constructing a magnificent 131 clearance as Friday he went on to record a comprehensive 4-0 win against local challenger Manav Panchal of Mumbai in the best-of-7-frame round of 64 match of the CCI All India Open Snooker Championship here.
His century break in the third frame is the best in the competition and has now qualified for the highest break prize of Rs 25,000.
The qualifying mark was 130 and above.
He rolled in another decent run of 53 in the fourth frame to complete a quick 78-24, 65-4, 131-0 and 73-22.
The Bangalore-based National champion and India No. 1 Pankaj was all finesse and showed immaculate touch over the cue ball as he managed to get into perfect positions to pot with accuracy and a high degree of consistency to produce the big efforts.
However, Indian No. 4 Kamal Chawla of Railways fell by the wayside as he suffered a 1-4 defeat at the hands of Telanganas Lucky Vatnani in another round of 64 encounter.
In another round of 64 tie, Indian No. 5 Sourav Kothari of PSPB also crashed out as he stumbled to a 3-4 defeat against Railways Malkeet Singh in a tense match.
Malkeet came up with a timely break of 60 in the decider to snatch a deserving 83-12, 27-68, 1-86, 59-8, 1-69, 69-27 and 74)-34 win.
Meanwhile, National women champion Varsha Sanjeev of Karnataka went down fighting to Mumbais flambouyant Vimal Mariwala losing a seven-frame thriller by a 3-4 margin.
Results Round of 64: Pankaj Advani (ONGC) beat Manav Panchal (Mumbai) 4-0 (78-24, 65-4, 131(131)-0, 73(53)-22); Divya Sharma (Haryana) beat Pushpinder Shingh (Delhi) 4-1 (22-72, 54-43, 56-28, 77-17, 72(52)-29);
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Girish (Railways) beat Hitesh Kotwani (Mumbai) 4-0 (65-31, 56-27, 62-37, 80(58)-0); Monu Choudhry (Delhi) beat Shahbaaz Adil Khan (ONGC) 4-2 (44-58, 1-67(67), 70(54)-23, 75-37, 74-15, 84-42); Rupesh Shah (Gujarat) beat Sundeep Gulati (Delhi) 4-3 (34-64, 61-6, 61-7, 45-61, 69-59, 50-60, 86(86)-60); Varun Madan (Delhi) beat Bharat Sissodia (MP) 4-2 (81-42, 52-65, 73-38, 49-78, 60-28, 71-28); Vimal Mariwala (Mumbai) beat Varsha Sanjeev (Karnataka) 4-3 (80(49)-9, 45-51, 52-39, 19-49, 62-63, 43-39, 50-29); S.
Dilip Kumar (Railways) beat Kaniskh Janjaria (Mumbai) 4-2 4-2 (68(47)-30, 68(54)-49, 54-60, 63-53, 50-62, 70-36); Manan Chandra (BPCL) beat M S Arun (Karnataka) 4-1 (72-24, 70-12, 44-76, 94(63)-22, 75-40); Lucky Vatnani (Telangana) beat Kamal Chawla (Railways) 4-1 (55-57, 73-8, 65-8, 61-53, 75-2); Malkeet Singh (Railways) beat Sourav Kothari (ONGC) 4-3 (83-12, 27-68, 1-86(86), 59-8, 1-69, 69-27, 74(60)-34).
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