{"id":15124,"date":"2013-06-01T01:33:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15124"},"modified":"2013-06-01T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T01:33:10","slug":"india-emerge-champions-in-inaugural-asian-team-snooker-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15124","title":{"rendered":"India emerge champions in inaugural Asian Team Snooker Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Doha: The Indian trio Manan Chandra, Brijesh Damani and Alok Kumar created history by thrashing Team Iran 3-0 to emerge champions in the inaugural Asian Team Snooker Championships held in Qatar, Doha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Indian cueists were in form right from the start and topped their group with three wins from as many games. After the group stages, India were the only team to remain undefeated. Pakistan, China and Thailand finished on top of their respective groups but suffered a defeat each.<\/p>\n<p>India had little obstruction in clinching gold as they outplayed Qatar 3-1 in the quarterfinals, beat Afghanistan 3-1 in the semifinals before registering a clean sweep against Iran scoring 61-49 (Single); 58-16 (Single); and 63-55 (double).<\/p>\n<p>Sanjay Sawant accompanied the team India as coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doha: The Indian trio Manan Chandra, Brijesh Damani and Alok Kumar created history by thrashing Team Iran 3-0 to emerge champions in the inaugural Asian Team Snooker Championships held in Qatar, Doha. The Indian cueists were in form right from the start and topped their group with three wins from as many games. 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