Advani, Shandilya gets top seeding in Senior Billiards knock-out

The top 16 will now vie for the title on a knock-out basis, with the finals scheduled on Jan 17.

Pankaj Advani and Ashok Shandilya are on the top of their game, having lost just one frame each in the league stage.

The Pre-Quarters will see Pankaj Advani pitted against 16-seed Manish Jain, Ashok Shandilya against Jaiveer Dhingra while Rupesh Shah will clash with Nikhil Ghadge, and Sourav will clash with Dhvaj Haria.

Commenting on the draw, former World Champion and Chief National Coach of India, Manoj Kothari, said: “While the composition of the Top 16 holds no surprises, it is actually quite a challenging field. It will be very difficult, if not impossible, to predict a winner. Any of the players, on their day, can surprise the best.”

The top 16 seeds are:

Pankaj Advani (PSPB)
Ashok Shandilya (RSPB)
Rupesh Shah (PSPB)
Sourav Kothari (PSPB)
Alok Kumar (PSPB)
Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB)
B. Bhaskar (KTK)
Devendra Joshi (PSPB)
Brijesh Damani (PSPB)
Vishal Madan (MAH)
Rafath Habib (RSPB)
Siddharth Parikh (RSPB)
Dhvaj Haria (PSPB)
Nikhil Ghadge (RSPB)
Jaiveer Dhingra (MAH)
Manish Jain (WB)

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SCORES

Pankaj Advani (PSPB) beat Jaiveer Dhingra (Maharashtra) 3-0

100(96)-10, 103(68)-15, 103(76)-10

Pankaj Advani (PSPB) beat Durga Prasad (RSPB) 3-1

101(101)-09, 28-101(68),101(89)-02, 103(78)-58

Rupesh Shah (PSPB) beat Siddharth Parikh (RSPB) 3-1

77-100, 100(100)-36, 100-36, 100-18

Rupesh Shah (PSPB) beat Shyam Jagtiani (West Bengal) 3-0

100(69)-29, 100-41, 101(101)-0

Ashok Shandilya (RSPB) beat Brijesh Damani (PSPB) 3-0

100(67)-0, 102-44, 102(87)-31

Ashok Shandilya (RSPB) beat Anseth Pareira (Jharkhand) 3-0

100-04, 101-84, 101-32

Ashok Shandilya (RSPB) beat Hritik Jain 3-1

101-30, 101(62)-18, 49-100, 102-22

Sourav Kothari (PSPB) beat Rafath Habib (RSPB) 3-0

101(92)-36, 101(73)-26, 100-12

Vishal Madan (Maharashtra) beat Rakesh R. Pradhan (Orissa) 3-0

100-12, 101-12, 101(62)-22

Vishal Madan (Maharashtra) beat Shivam Arora (Bihar) 3-1

77(71)-101, 100(95)-17,100-41, 102-40

Alok Kumar (PSPB) beat I.H. Manudev (Karnataka) 3-1

100(67)-40, 73-100, 100(70)-0, 101(57)-64

B. Bhaskar (Karnataka) beat Dhvaj Haria (PSPB) 3-0

101(101)-09, 101(64)-78(48), 101(75)-49(42)

Manish Jain (West Bengal) beat Abhimanyu Gandhi 3-0

101-84, 100-66, 100-26

Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB) beat Arun Agarwal (Maharashtra) 3-2

101(98)-46, 100(94)-16,57-100(97), 52-103(79)

Brijesh Damani (PSPB) beat Parthiv Jhaveri (Gujarat) 3-0

103-17, 101-30, 101-79

Nikhil Ghadge (RSPB) beat Subrat Das (Orissa) 3-1

102-48, 96-100, 100-75, 100-50

Devendra Joshi (PSPB) beat Malkeet Singh (RSPB) 3-1

100(80)-40, 66(53)-105, 102(77)-05, 101(51)-89

Jaiveer Dhingra (Maharashtra) beat Durga Prasad (RSPB) 3-1

63-107, 100-75, 104-56, 100-93