Mumbai lad Ishpreet Chadha won a second title in the Gloster National billiards and snooker championship here on Wednesday. He added his maiden junior billiards title to the sub-junior snooker crown he won on Tuesday.
Ishpreet lost the final round-robin league match to Tamil Nadu’s S. Shrikrishna 615-495 but was declared champion following a three-way tie.
Three-way tieIshpreet, Shrikrishna and B. Jagadish had won twice and lost once each. However, Ishpreet emerged No. 1 on score aggregate.
“Before the final league match, I had worked out the equation.
“[If I lost] I needed to lose by a small margin. I was under no pressure,” he said after the match. “Two years back I had finished third and last year I was runner-up. This year I made sure I took the title,” he said.
Shrikrishna, who ended second, again proved his supremacy over Ishpreet after beating him in the sub-junior billiards final two days ago.
The 14-year-old Chennai boy lost his opening league match to Statemate Jagadish which proved costly in the end.
Nikhil Pise ended fourth.
The results:
Billiards: Junior: Semifinals (round robin): Ishpreet Chadha (Mah) 585 (112) bt B. Jagadish (TN) 403; S. Shrikrishna (TN) 664 (54, 53) bt Nikhil Pise (Kar) 305; Jagadish 636 (50, 57, 61) bt Nikhil 233; Shrikrishna 615 (65, 89, 53) bt Ishpreet 495 (43, 63); Ishpreet 535 bt Nikhil 155; Jagadish 505 bt Shrikrishna 357.
Final standings: 1. Ishpreet, 2. Shrikrishna, 3. Jagadish, 4. Nikhil.
