Keerthana to tackle Anupama for title

Karnataka’s Keerthana Pandian got here up with a gritty effort to indicate reigning champion Amee Kamani the door within the ladies’s semifinals of the National 6-Red Snooker Championships right here on Friday.

Keerthana’s surprisingly lopsided 4-1 win over the formidable Amee helped her arrange a ultimate date with Anupama Ramachandran, the reigning Asian snooker champion. Tamil Nadu cueist Anupama scored a snug 4-1 win over Ishika Shah of Madhya Pradesh.

In the boys’s part, Railways Pushpender Singh will lock horns with Dhvaj Haria of PSPB within the title conflict. Both got here via their semifinals with out breaking a sweat. While Pushpender outplayed his younger rival Digvijay Kadian 6-2, Haria overcame seasoned Brijesh Damani 6-3 within the different semifinal.

Earlier, Damani needed to play out of his pores and skin to beat Karnataka’s I.H. Manudev 5-4 within the last-eight stage.

Results: Men: Semifinals: Pushpender Singh (Rlys) bt Digvijay Kadian (Har) 6-2; Dhvaj Haria (PSPB) bt Brijesh Damani (PSPB) 6-3.

Quarterfinals: Damani bt IH Manudev (Kar) 5-4 (9-51, 20-44, 34-2, 33-34, 44-0, 42-37, 34-21, 20-28, 32-18); Haria bt Laxman Rawat (PSPB) 5-4; Digvijay bt Sourav Kothari (PSPB) 5-3; Pushpender bt Shrikrishna (PSPB) 5-3.

Women: Semifinals: Keerthana Pandian (Kar) bt Amee Kamani (MP) 4-1 (43-0, 36-33, 31-43, 39-1, 50-1); Anupama Ramachandran (TN) bt Ishika Shah (MP) 4-1 (33-22, 45-4, 18-31, 46-36, 48-6).

Quarterfinals: Keerthana bt Arantxa Sanchis (Mah) 4-2; Anupama bt Snenthra Babu (TN) 4-0; Amee bt Shruthi (TN) 4-0; Ishika bt Suniti Damani (WB) 4-2.