Subrat Das and Rakesh Roshan Pradhan reached semifinals of the 8th MIET Open East Zone Snooker Tournament, posting comfortable wins over Khalid Sultan and Zakir Ali respectively at Vintage Club here today. Earlier in the day, Pradhan rode on a break of 73, the highest of the tournament so far to overcome Sudipta Dash in his pre-quarterfinal match.
A record number of 106 cueists, including seven from neighbouring states Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh joined the tournament, which is being organised by Mahavir Group of Institutions.
Billiards & Snooker Association of Orissa secretary Srimoy Kar inaugurated the tournament in the presence of co-ordinator Govind Sharma and Mahavir Group of Institutions director Amiya Ranjan Nayak. The tournament carries a total prize fund of around Rs 1.10 lakh, including Rs 30,000 for the champion and Rs 16,000 for the runner-up.
The MIET Open which started, which started way back in 2005, was a state-level tournament for the first seven editions. From this year it assumed zonal status with participation of cueists from neighbouring states Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. Odisha cue king Subrat Das is the defending champion and Siddharth Sen last year’s runner-up.
RESULTS:
November 21: Jagdish Mohanty bt Shantanu Kanhar 2-0. Gyana Das bt Padmasan Nayak 2-1. Snehanshu Saha bt V Nitesh Patro 2-1. Arman-ul Haque bt Harsh Lamba 2-1. Rahul Hali bt Prakash Sahoo 2-1. Rakesh Mohanty bt Sk Nasimuddin 2-0. Soubhagya Behera bt Gouri Sankar Biswal 2-0.
November 22: Usman Khan bt Goutam Das 2-1. Satyadeep Das bt Divesh Upadhya 2-0. Harihara Guru bt Ajaya Acharya 2-0. Soumya Mohanty bt Soumya Jogania 2-0. Govind Sharma bt Arpit Jena 2-0. Amrit Battu bt Laksh Ankit 2-1. Siddhart Jena bt Soumyakanta Mohapatra 2-1. Indrajeet Sarangi bt Aishwarya Agarwal 2-0. Harshal Taunk bt Anshuman Mishra 2-0. Soubhagya Behera bt Smruti Ranjan Behera 2-0. Paras Routray bt Aditya Das 2-1. Sudipta Dash bt Desh Gourav 2-0. Rakesh Roshan Pradhan bt Harshal Taunk 2-0. Sameer Ali bt Manas Behura 2-0. Sandipani Mishra bt Rakesh Barik 2-1.
November 23: Anurag Samanta bt Surya P Singh 2-1. Krishna Chawda bt Bibhudatta Mohanty 2-1. Jagdish Mohanty bt Krishna Chawda 3-0. Chetan Anand bt Nischya Mishra 2-1. Mohit Manik bt Jajati Panda 2-0. Devendra Mishra bt Omm Biswal 2-0. Sumit Hemram bt Nilanjal Giri 2-0. Subhrajit Patnaik bt Amrit Murraka 2-0. Mishal Swain bt Siddharth Jena 2-0. Tarun Pattnaik bt Saroj Das 2-0. Khalid Sultan bt Mohit Manik 3-0. Satyajyoti Mohanty bt Ranjeet Pati 3-0. Shivan Singhal bt Nishi P Das 2-0. Godwin Kullu bt Bhaskar Kiran 3-1. Tushar Shreshtha bt Amitav Mohanty 2-0. Shyam Agarwal bt Muna Parida 2-0. Altaf Ali bt Shivasis Biswal 2-1. Rajesh Swain bt Shiv Sharkar Mohanty 2-1. Zakir Ali Khan bt Devendra Mishra 3-1. Amiya Ranjan Nayak bt Rajesh Swain 3-0.
November 24: Tushar Shreshtha bt Siddharth Sen 3-1. Md Raza bt Paras Routray 3-0. Chandra Mohanty bt Anuragh Samanta 3-0. Ashwini Pattnaik bt Harihara Guru 3-0. Snehanshu Saha bt Gyana Das 3-1. Abinash Mohapatra bt Shyam Agarwal 3-1. Subrat Das bt Sumeet Sagat 3-0. Jitu Mohapatra bt Adarsh Pattniak 3-0. Sarda Behera bt Sourav Tulsia 3-0. Jiten Sarangi bt Rishab Gulecha 3-0. Suman Pattniak bt Abhijeet Mishra 3-0. Kunal Agarwal bt Amrit Battu 3-0. Arman-ul Haque bt Chandra Mohanty 3-1. Amiya Ranjan Nayak bt Jitu Mohapatra 3-0. Udbhas Mohapatra bt Rakesh Mohanty 3-0. Rumit Gupta bt Rahul Hali 3-0. Govind Sharma bt Shivam Singhal 3-0. Indrajeet Sarangi bt Soumya Mohanty 3-0. Subrat Das bt Godwin Kulu 3-1. Subhrajit Pattnaik bt Sandipani Mishra 3-1.
November 25: Soubhagya Behera bt Tushar Shreshtha 3-1. Tarun Patnaik bt Ashwini Patnaik 3-1. Sudipta Dash bt Altaf Ali 3-0. Khalid Sultan bt Udbhas Mohapatra 3-2. Jagadish Mohanty bt Md Raza 3-1. Satyadeep Das bt Ahsan-ul Haque 3-0. Kunal Agarwal bt Indrajeet Sarangi 3-1. Rakesh Roshan Pradhan bt Avinash Mohapatra 3-0. Zakir Ali Khan bt Mishal Swain 3-1. Ranjit Pati bt Subhrajit Pattnaik 3-1.
November 26: Suman Patnaik bt Usman Khan 3-1. Jiten Sarangi bt Sharda Behera 3-2. Sudipta Dash bt Suman Patnaik 3-2. Satyadeep Das bt Govind Sharma 3-1. Subrat Das bt Ranjit Pati 3-1. Akash Mohapatra bt Arman-ul Haque 3-0. Rakesh Roshan Pradhan bt Sudipta Dash 3-2. Rakesh Roshan Pradhan bt Khalid Sultan 4-1 (QF). Subrat Das bt Zakir Ali Khan 4-0 (QF).
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PHOTO: Tushar Shresth in action at the MIET Open East Zone Snooker Tournament in Bhubaneswar on Nov 24, 2018.