> IBSF World Snookers championships

From this sunday, the 2006 IBSF world snooker championship is going to be held.

Indian chanllenge will be spearheaded by former world champion Pankaj Advani, he will be joined by Manan Chandra in the mens section.

In Ladies section India will be represented by vidya Pillai and Anuja Thankur.

While in Masters segment Geet Sethi and Devendra Joshi will lead the indian challenge.

In snooker till now we have a few good players, like Yasin Merchant and many, but they have not been able to replicate the success in the Porfessional Circuit.

Pankaj Advani has shown some sparks and looks promising. While we lost out on a good player due to lack of sponsorships (Rupesh Shah of Gujarat).

lets see whats in store in this edition.

This is something different than what is played in scotland.
Unfortunately the home website of IBSF is shamelessly pulled down and promoting the webcast of the event. : www.ibsf.org

Keep us posted doc, don't follow snooker much.

That site looks way out of tune - asking for 37$ every second line

and look at the title !!! LOL "offer" lame .. rofl at these people ..

yes its the utter stupidity on behalf of IBSF to do this.

but imo they are tied with the commercial partner.

what abt the 9 ball pool championship??

did yeah watch efren reyes match tony crosby man!! awsome.. reyes lost 7-8..but well... beating him isnt that easy is it?? and yeah the reason why he's called the magician was so on display in that match!! damn good!

update 1:

all the indian players except Vidya Pillai won their first group matches.

the schedule today is :
Pankaj Advani 13.00
Manan Chandra 16.00
Geet Sethi 19.00
Devendra Joshi 13.00
Vidya Pillai 19.00
Anuja Thakur 13.00

All times are in Jordan Time. add 3.30 hours to it to get IST.

^ Good to hear that

update two:

anuja thakur : 4/3/11/3/8/2.00 (Tied second position in group looks good to go into the knockouts)
Vidya pillai : 4/3/8/3/5/1.25(tied third in group will have to perform better in remaining matches.)

Pankaj Advani : 4/3/15/8/7/1.75 (does not seem to be a good show here)
Manan Chandra : 4/4/16/2/14/3.50 (keep it up man)

Geet Sethi : 3/3/9/1/8/2.67 (yeah)
Devendra Joshi ; 4/4/12/2/10/2.50

* explanation : the figures are : matches played (MP) / matches won (MW) / frames won (FW) / frames lost (FL) / frames difference (FD) / FA(this last one is FD divided by MP most likely will be used as a tie breaker)

update 11.30 IST

Anuja Thakur 5/4/14/3/11/2.20
Vidya Pillai 5/3/8/6/2/0.40 (seems to have lost the way (IIRC she forfeited the last match why do not know.)

mes topurnament the update will happe after 9.30 GMT

Masters
geet sethi 5/5/15/1/14/2.80
devendra joshi 5/5/15/3/12/2.40

so in masters both geet and devendra doing well.

in mens lets keep our fingure crossed.

in womens tourney anuja thakur is doing good while vidya pillai does not rise to the occassion.

update :

Vidya Pillai : 7/4/11/8/3/0.43
Anuja thakur : 6/4/14/3/11/1.83

Pankaj Advani : 5/4/19/8/11/2.20
Manan Chandra : 5/5/20/4/16/3.20

Geet sethi : 6/6/18/1/17/2.83
Devendra Joshi : 6/6/18/5/13/1.83

From sunday evening there will be knock outs.

For each section top four from each group will advance to the ko.

For ladies its quarterfinal

For men its last 32

for masters its last 16.

anuja thakur / manan chandra / geet sethi / devendra joshi are sure shot entries into the kos.

lets see what happens latter.