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Manisha National Snooker Championship: Huge century break propels Mehta

Manisha National Snooker Championship: Huge century break propels Mehta

Abhishek Manroa February 1, 2012 0

Brijesh Damani scores back-to-back wins; Durga Prasad shock Devendra Joshi

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Manisha Billiards Championship: Mehta cruises, Advani stretched to distance

Manisha Billiards Championship: Mehta cruises, Advani stretched to distance

Abhishek Manroa January 31, 2012 0

Defending champion Aditya Mehta made it look so easy, but four-time champion Pankaj Advani survived a scare against unheralded Rajat Khaneja of Chandigarh before winning in the deciding fifth frame in the league

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Mehta favourite for Manisha Nationals Men’s snooker title

Mehta favourite for Manisha Nationals Men’s snooker title

Abhishek Manroa January 30, 2012 0

Defending champion Aditya Mehta will start as favourite ahead of a huge field that for the first time will have a 32-player knockout draw after 80 cueists would begin league phase in 16 groups,

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Chitra wins women’s snooker title at Manisha Nationals

Chitra wins women’s snooker title at Manisha Nationals

Abhishek Manroa January 28, 2012 0

Former world billiards champion M Chitra finally redeemed herself after years of toil and won her maiden national title, winning the women’s snooker championship beating Neena Praveen of Tamil Nadu at the Manisha-National Billiards

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Manisha Billiards Championship: Maharashtra cueists subdue seeded players

Manisha Billiards Championship: Maharashtra cueists subdue seeded players

Abhishek Manroa January 26, 2012 0

Maharashtra cueists had a field day at the National Billiards championship on Wednesday when Arun Agarwal caused the biggest upset of the day by beating Brijesh Damani, who had beaten Geet Sethi on the

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Young brigade shines at Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship

Young brigade shines at Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship

Abhishek Manroa January 24, 2012 0

Defending champion Pankaj Advani and his contemporary cueists Sourav Kothari and Brijesh Damani held aloft the flag for young brigade as the three stormed into the pre-quarterfinals with an all-win record in the Group

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Varsha wins triple crown at Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship

Varsha wins triple crown at Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship

Abhishek Manroa January 24, 2012 0

Bengaluru girl Varsha Sanjeev notched a creditable triple crown winning the junior girls snooker event at the Manisha National Billiards & Snooker Championship at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana on Monday

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Advani starts campaign with century break at Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship

Advani starts campaign with century break at Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship

Abhishek Manroa January 23, 2012 0

Former World Champion Pankaj Advani started his campaign with a century break at the Manisha National Billiards & Snooker Championship at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana on Sunday

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Pimpale storms into finals at Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship

Pimpale storms into finals at Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship

Abhishek Manroa January 23, 2012 0

Pune girl Arya Pimpale will clash with holder Varsha Sanjeev in the finals of the Girls Sub Junior Snooker event of the Manisha National Billiards & Snooker Championship at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana

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Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship: Rawat wins Jr Snooker title

Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship: Rawat wins Jr Snooker title

Abhishek Manroa January 22, 2012 0

New Delhi's Laxman Rawat scored two back to back wins and recorded better average in league matches to claim the junior snooker national title

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Manisha National Billiards & Snooker Championship: Lalrina, Jain enter last-8

Manisha National Billiards & Snooker Championship: Lalrina, Jain enter last-8

Abhishek Manroa January 20, 2012 0

Top-seeded Lalrina Rentheli of Mizoram scored a 3-1 win over Assam's Mridul Das to enter the quarterfinals of the Junior Snooker at the Manisha Constructions National Billiards & Snooker Championship here Thursday

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Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship: Sachdev, Jain in round 2 of Jr category

Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championship: Sachdev, Jain in round 2 of Jr category

Abhishek Manroa January 19, 2012 0

Qualifiers Rahul Sachdev of Maharashtra and Rishit Jain of Delhi scored 3-1 wins to enter the second round of the junior snooker event at the Manisha Constructions National Billiards and Snooker Championship organised by

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Haria asserts supremacy at Manisha Constructions Snooker Championships

Haria asserts supremacy at Manisha Constructions Snooker Championships

Abhishek Manroa January 17, 2012 0

The tables at the PYC Gymkhana in Pune are turning out to be successful hunting ground for the teen sensation Dhvaj Haria as he annexed the sub junior snooker and the junior billiards

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Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championships: Haria leads Juniors SF line-up

Manisha Billiards, Snooker Championships: Haria leads Juniors SF line-up

Abhishek Manroa January 15, 2012 0

Gujarat's Dhvaj Haria, Madhiya Pradesh’s Ketan Chawla, Uttar Pradesh’s Malkeet Singh and Andhra Pradesh's Himanshu Jain made it to the last-four stage in the Junior category of the Manisha National Snooker and Billiards championships

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Manisha National Billards, Snooker Championship: Haria, Dhingra into last-4 in Sub-Jr category

Manisha National Billards, Snooker Championship: Haria, Dhingra into last-4 in Sub-Jr category

Abhishek Manroa January 14, 2012 0

Dhvaj Haria of Gujarat and Jaiveer Dhingra of Maharashtra scored convincing wins to make it to the last-four stage in the Sub Junior Billiards event at the Manisha National Billiards & Snooker Championship on

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Indian National Billiards, Snooker Championship starts today

Indian National Billiards, Snooker Championship starts today

Abhishek Manroa January 12, 2012 2

The Manisha National Billiards and Snooker Championship with prize money worth Indian rupees five lakh will swing into action in Pune from January 12 (today)

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PBSA, cueists at loggerheads over World Cup prize money

PBSA, cueists at loggerheads over World Cup prize money

Ahmed Jatt December 8, 2011 0

The Snooker World Cup prize money has created bad air among the Pakistan Billiard and Snooker Association (PBSA) and Pakistani snooker players as the Association is in no mood of paying the dues, www.sportsencounter.com

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Pakistan cueists in Thailand for Snooker World Cup

Pakistan cueists in Thailand for Snooker World Cup

Fathima Zanaida July 10, 2011 0

Pakistan’s snooker team landed in Thailand capital on Saturday to participate in the World Cup Team Snooker Championship starting from July

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Snooker: Higgins wins fourth world title

Snooker: Higgins wins fourth world title

Resham Ahmed May 3, 2011 0

LONDON: John Higgins defeated Judd Trump by 18-15 and his off-the-field miseries once and for all to win World Snooker Championship 2011, his fourth world championship title, here Monday night

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Pak snooker team gets Iran visas; awaits funds

Pak snooker team gets Iran visas; awaits funds

Mirza Faizan Baig March 23, 2011 0

Pakistani snooker players have got the visas for Iran to play a bilateral series against Iran but the Association is still awaiting release of special grant by the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB)

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Sajjad, Imran surge in World Snooker Championship

Sajjad, Imran surge in World Snooker Championship

Osama Tariq December 8, 2010 0

KARACHI: The Year 2010 has proved to be a good one for Pakistani sportsmen apart from cricket as two of the Pakistani cueists recorded their second victories in the ongoing IBSF World Snooker Championship

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