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Kathmandu Saturday August 19, 2000 Bhadra 03, 2057.
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Lama, Gyalchen through to last eight
By a Post Reporter
KATHMANDU, Aug 18 - Rajen Lama and Tshering Gyalchen both
registered a straight forward win here Friday to book a place in the last eight of the San
Miguel Champion of Champions Open Snooker tournament.
Lama, who looked quite rusty to start with during the initial
stages of the tournament, came back to his true form winning two matches without dropping
a frame. He also won his third round match in similar fashion.
Playing with authority, he compiled a string of smart breaks
against Tshering and quickly went 1-0 up, 62-35, in the best of seven frame match.
Tshering gave some indication of a comeback midway through
the second frame when Lama missed a tricky pot at far pocket. But Tshering lost the
initiative back again, failing to ram home the advantage. Lama, without letting go the
opportunity took the frame at 60-47.
Although he was made to work hard on occasions, Lama was just
too good for Tshering to pose any threat as he finished off the match, winning the third
and fourth frames as well with the scores of 61-43, 58-40.
Tshering Gyalchen was another cueist to win comprehensively.
His opponent Prakash Shrestha gave some flashes of brilliance in the opening frame but he
could hardly do anything once Gyalchen found his rhythm.
After taking the first at relatively less margin at 58-35,
Gyalchen was virtually unstoppable, getting away from Shrestha with vital breaks in each
of the last three frames for 87-10, 87-49, 70-43 win.
Both Tashi Wangchuk and Sanjay Mulmi, meanwhile, advanced to
the quarterfinals with a score of 4-2.
Wangchuk, after winning the opening frame, 73-33, lost his
concentration for a while and found himself 1-2 down to Jaggu Sahid, who won the second
and third by 67-45, 59-45. But as a true champion cueist, he was back into swing of things
pocketing the following three frames at 85-7, 83-9, 62-35 to move ahead.
Mulmi crawled back from a frame down and the fifth frame to
beat Indra Gurung with the score of 45-61, 69-47, 59-34, 56-38, 56-99, 84-23.
Also to reach the last eight were Suraj Singh, Rashmi
Shrestha, Ganga Thapa and Shankar Thapa. Singh and Shrestha got past Kenur Joshi and Raju
Gurung respectively by 4-1 while Ganga Thapa and Shankar Thapa had 4-2 win over Bhusan
Shrestha and Pranil Dhoj Karki.
All the quarterfinal matches are scheduled for Saturday.
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