New Delhi: Siddharth Raheja came out all guns blazing to score a 3-1 win over former sub-junior national champion, Lalit Dahiya on the opening day of the RKG Snooker Masters North Zone championship in Dwarka.<\/p>\n
Raheja reigned supreme on the green baize and reduced Dahiya, the 13th seed in the championship, to a mere spectator on Day 1 at the Megapool Academy.<\/p>\n
In other matches, Hitesh Sethi defeated Tarun Agarwal 3-2 while Shrenik Jain comfortably beat Jyotirmay Pant 3-0.<\/p>\n
Manmeet Bhatia of Megapool Academy won a hard-fought contest against Tejandra Choudhary 3-2. Harpreet Singh beat Azim Khan 3-1 while Pulkit Thupral put paid to the hopes of Amit Chaudhary by an identical margin.<\/p>\n
India’s top cueists, Sourav Kothari, Sandeep Gulati and Dhruv Sitwala among others, will play their respective tournament openers on March 14.<\/p>\n
The event is a build-up to the RKG-Khar Gymkhana Snooker Masters 2013, India’s biggest Pro-Am Snooker tournament, from May 6 to 13 in Mumbai.<\/p>\n
The tournament is sponsored by former vice president of Delhi Billiards & Snooker Association, Ravindra Gupta, and will boast of four top UK professionals and an equal number of Indian amateurs — Pankaj Advani, Aditya Mehta, Yasin Merchant and Alok Kumar.<\/p>\n
The prize money is the biggest offered in India at Rs 22 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: Siddharth Raheja came out all guns blazing to score a 3-1 win over former sub-junior national champion, Lalit Dahiya on the opening day of the RKG Snooker Masters North Zone championship in Dwarka.<\/p>\n
Raheja reigned supreme on the green baize and reduced Dahiya, the 13th seed in the championship, to a mere spectator on Day 1 at the Megapool Academy.<\/p>\n
In other matches, Hitesh Sethi defeated Tarun Agarwal 3-2 while Shrenik Jain comfortably beat Jyotirmay Pant 3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-sports-local-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n