Ishpreet Singh Chadha, Hasan Badami score big wins

Ishpreet Singh Chadha of Khar Gymkhana and Hasan Badami of Cricket Club of India romped to convincing 5-0 victories in their respective best-of nine frame fifth round qualifying matches of the Matunga Gymkhana 6-Red Open Snooker Tournament at Matunga Gymkhana. 

Ishpreet quickly got off the blocks and had no trouble in smothering the challenge from Mahesh Jagdale of Elphinstone Cricket Club winning in straight five frames. The Khar Gym cueist constructed breaks of 38 and 30 in the winning the opening two frames and then maintained the winning run of form as he cruised to a 39(38-break)-25, 37(30)-16, 29-26, 42-31 and 45-15 win to qualify for the main draw.

Hasan Badami also enjoyed a good run and with some fluent potting curbed the aspiration of Dhairya Bhandari of Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana by pulling off a win in five quick frames. Hasan started steadily and after pocketing the first two frames he compiled a run of 38 in the third and followed uo with a break of 30 in the next before going on to also easily win the fifth to wrap up the one-sided contest at 34-21, 37-19, 42(38)-2, 56(34)-0 and 46-9.