Odisha cuesports icon Asutosh Padhy won the senior snooker title in the 30th Odisha State Billiards & Snooker Championship, which concluded at 6Pockets Club, Patia Square, Bhubaneswar today. In an interesting final, Asutosh defeated his coach and senior billiards champion Subrat Das by 6-3 frames (11-57, 67-28, 66-23, 93-0, 63-2, 61-70, 72-18, 46-54, 60-30).
The title triumph of Asutosh was studded with a superb break of 93 in the fourth frame. This was the second highest break of the tournament, the highest being 95, which was also achieved by Asutosh earlier.
This was the third State senior snooker title for Asutosh, who has graduated to the senior level after winning as many as seven junior and sub-junior National titles in billiards and snooker. On the other hand, Subrat missed the opportunity to win the State senior snooker title for the sixth time and settled as runner-up.