Fancied cueists advance to second round
The All-Island Lanka Plate Snooker Championship which is the second qualifying tournament to select the 16 players who would join the 16 national ranked players to contest in the forthcoming 68th National Snooker Championship got underway at the MICH billiards table yesterday.
The tournament is contested by 41 cueists who qualified after the completion of the district tournaments which was held in Colombo, Nuwara Eliya, Kandy and Galle and first round of matches which was played yesterday saw fancied cueists winning their matches to advance to the second round
The 68th National Snooker Championship conducted by the Billiards and Snooker Association of Sri Lanka will be played for U.W. Sumathipala Memorial Trophy present by Sumathi Group of Companies who are the main sponsors. The tournament will continue today.
Results
- M. Thasleem (POP) beat M. Umar (Thawalama SPP) 3-0 (61/51, 61/18, 76/32)
- Anil Rohana (YMBA) beat S.M, Izadeen (Thawalama SPP) 3-0 (50/18, 72/19, 62/10)
- M. Ziyard (Kandy) beat R.M.S. Ratnayake (Army) 3-1 (54/44, 54/30, 47/59, 60/16)
- M.R.T. Chandana (BRC) beat Tharindu Samith (THawalama SPP) 3-1 (27/71, 71/30, 63/31, 56/30)
- Prasanna Guruge (Galle) beat Razeen Nazeer (POP) 3-2 (19/27, 37/46, 32/23, 52/51, 60/46)
- K.A.L. Fahim (MSC) beat M.M. Jiffrey (Galle) 3-0 (78/39, 77/49, 63/37)
- Prasanna Pushpakumara (ICSC) beat M. Uvaiz (Galle) 3-0 (73/28, 84/24, 58/16)
- S.H.M. Aslam (MSC) beat M. Sally (Kandy) 3-1 (61/22, 41/49, 54/9, 58/28)
- I. Hussain (Kandy) beat Sachala Sandaruwan (Thawalama SPP) 3-0 (44/44, 64/27, 63/62)