Amit Lath of Bhubaneswar posted successive wins to advance to the third round of the 5th Pradeep Sen Memorial All-Orissa Open Snooker Tournament, which commenced at Cuttack Club today. In the lone second round match, Lath beat E Rajkiran by 2-1 frames. Nine other cueists won their first round matches in the lucrative tournament, which offers a total cash prize of Rs 57,300. Results: First round: Amit Lath bt Shivam Nag 2-1 (82-47, 49-60, 58-42): Sanjeev Sahu bt Ashwini Pattnaik 2-0 (52-16, 56-6): Sarthak Das bt Gautam Sahoo 2-0 (54-42, 60-36): Anubhav Agarwal bt Pradeep Sharma 2-0 (48-33, 47-30): Rahul Prusty bt Debabrata Rout 2-0 (1-0, 57-35): Rahul Gupta bt Chirag Arora 2-1 (46-55, 53-27, 62-39): Gyan Satpathy bt Riaz Khan 2-0 (59-15, 40-25): E Rajkiran bt P Nangalia 2-0 (46-37, 40-26): Bipin Agarwal bt Subash Sahu 2-0 (60-9, 57-50): Amit Nanda bt Nitin Kakkar 2-0 (51-25, 54-21). Second round: Amit Lath bt E Rajkiran 3-0 (65-20, 60-24, 66-14).