{"id":21359,"date":"2015-03-02T06:36:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T06:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=21359"},"modified":"2015-03-02T06:36:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T06:36:32","slug":"snooker-laxman-wins-maiden-major-nation-wide-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=21359","title":{"rendered":"Snooker: Laxman wins maiden major nation-wide tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-21358\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/laxman-rawat.jpg\" alt=\"laxman rawat\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" width=\"260\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/laxman-rawat.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/laxman-rawat-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Erode: Laxman Rawat of Maharashtra wins the Chintamani Memorial &amp; D.&nbsp;Sashikant Memorial Open Snooker Tournament 2015 held at Erode, Tamil&nbsp;Nadu. In the final he defeated Faisal Khan of Railways 5-1 to lift the&nbsp;tournament trophy and winner&#8217;s prize of Rs.70000.<\/p>\n<p>After qualifying as No.7 from round robin stage, Laxman was&nbsp;comfortably defeated Senthil (TN) 3-1 in Last-32, R. Girish (Railways)&nbsp;4-1 in Pre-Quarters and Vijay Nichani (TN) 4-2 in Quarters.<\/p>\n<p>However, it went tough for him to win semi final match against J.&nbsp;Varun Kumar (TN) that had fallen in decider but Laxman managed to win&nbsp;and reached in the final where he conquered Faisal Khan of Railways to&nbsp;win his first ever nation-wide major tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erode: Laxman Rawat of Maharashtra wins the Chintamani Memorial &amp; D.&nbsp;Sashikant Memorial Open Snooker Tournament 2015 held at Erode, Tamil&nbsp;Nadu. In the final he defeated Faisal Khan of Railways 5-1 to lift the&nbsp;tournament trophy and winner&#8217;s prize of Rs.70000. After qualifying as No.7 from round robin stage, Laxman was&nbsp;comfortably defeated Senthil (TN) 3-1 in Last-32, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-snooker-billiard-snooker-billiard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Snooker: Laxman wins maiden major nation-wide tournament - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=21359\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Snooker: Laxman wins maiden major nation-wide tournament - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Erode: Laxman Rawat of Maharashtra wins the Chintamani Memorial &amp; D.&nbsp;Sashikant Memorial Open Snooker Tournament 2015 held at Erode, Tamil&nbsp;Nadu. 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