National Championship: Vidya Pillai, Shrikrishna emerge champions in 6-Red snooker

BHOPAL:

Vidya Pillai

of Karnataka and S. Shrikrinhna of PSPB scored contrasting victories and emerged champions in the ladies' and men's

6-Red snooker

in the Sage-National Billiards & Snooker Championship 2021 on Friday.


Vidya and her compatriot

Varsha Sanjeev

were engaged in a tense and thrilling contest for supremacy in the ladies' final.

In a match of fluctuating fortunes, Vidya trailed 1-3 but produced a strong late comeback to win the last two frames and clinch a nerve-wracking 4-3 (29-18, 19-31, 03-32, 33-29, 10-26, 26-07, and 42-00) victory.

The men's summit round clash turned out to be a lop-sided contest as

Shrikrishna

, who was up against

Manan Chandra

, potted confidently and consistently to take control and quickly raced to a 5-0 lead before closing out the match with a 6-1 demolition of his senior opponent.

The Chennai-based Shrikrishna, after taking the opening frame, uncorked a neat 69-point break in the second and later rolled in a 71-point effort in fourth. He followed that by comfortably winning the fifth to sit pretty with a healthy lead.

Manan managed to deny Shrikrishna from completing a clean sweep by pocketing the sixth frame.

But Shrikrishna managed to narrowly win the next two frames to complete a sensational 49-10, 69 (69)-00, 50-04, 71(71)-00, 48-08, 02-58, 33-24, and 33-28 victory and emerge champion.

Results: Ladies 6-Red snooker – Semi-finals: Vidya Pillai (KAR) beat Anupama Ramachandran (TN) 4-3; Varsha Sanjeev (KAR) beat Chitra Magimairaj (KAR) 4-0.

Final: Vidya Pillai (KAR) beat Varsha Sanjeev (KAR) 4-3 (29-18, 19-31, 03-32, 33-29, 10-26, 26-07, 42-00.Men's 6-Red snooker – Semi-finals: Manan Chandra (PSPB) beat Himanshu Jain (TEL) 6-5 (52-12, 25-13, 12-29, 00-50, 08-47, 16-29, 30-14, 51-22, 27-38, 39-22, 49-00);S. Shrikrishna (PSPB) beat Vijay Nichani (TN) 6-4 (03-32, 55-00, 32-18, 21-34, 03-33, 53-00, 40-06, 42-09, 24-33, 58-00).Final: S. Shrikrinshna (PSPB) beat Manan Chandra (PSPB) 6-1 (49-10, 69(69)-00, 50-04, 71(71)-00, 48-08, 02-58, 33-24, 33-28).