{"id":26211,"date":"2016-03-08T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26211"},"modified":"2016-03-08T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:56:11","slug":"asian-billiards-championships-dhruv-sitwala-to-take-on-b-bhaskar-in-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26211","title":{"rendered":"Asian Billiards Championships: Dhruv Sitwala to take on B Bhaskar in final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-6405\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snooker.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"snooker\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snooker.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snooker-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Colombo:<\/strong> Indian players have confirmed all colour medals in the ongoing Asian Billiards Championship 2016 at Colombo. Defending champion Dhruv Sitwala has entered the final of Asian Billiards and is just a match away from securing the title that he won last year. Dhruv reached the final defeating current world no.3 and his compatriot Siddharth Parikh 5-3.\n<\/p>\n<p>Siddharth was in good form and obtained initial lead of 2-1 which he raised to 3-2 but after that Dhruv bounced back heavily and showered three breaks of 70, 100 and 66 to win next three games in a row to secure the match.<\/p>\n<p>He will now take on another Indian player B. Bhaskar, who reached the final defeating weighty players like 15 time world champion, Pankaj Advani in quarter-final and former multiple time world champion, Peter Gilchrist in semi final.<\/p>\n<p>With all these performances, Indian have secured all three medals i.e. Bronze to Siddharth Parikh and Gold, Silver to either of them.<\/p>\n<p>The icing on cake is another bronze medal which is secured by Junior player Ishpreet Chadha who reached the semi final stage of Asian under-21 and lost to Wang Yuchen of China 1-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-6405\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snooker.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" alt=\"snooker\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snooker.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/snooker-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Colombo:<\/strong> Indian players have confirmed all colour medals in the ongoing Asian Billiards Championship 2016 at Colombo. Defending champion Dhruv Sitwala has entered the final of Asian Billiards and is just a match away from securing the title that he won last year. Dhruv reached the final defeating current world no.3 and his compatriot Siddharth Parikh 5-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[1320,15461,15167,5377,466,523,15466],"class_list":["post-26211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-snooker-billiard-snooker-billiard","tag-asian-billiards-championship","tag-b-bhaskar","tag-billiards-news","tag-dhruv-sitwala","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-pankaj-advani","tag-siddharth-parikh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asian Billiards Championships: Dhruv Sitwala to take on B Bhaskar in final - 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=26211\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Asian Billiards Championships: Dhruv Sitwala to take on B Bhaskar in final - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Colombo: Indian players have confirmed all colour medals in the ongoing Asian Billiards Championship 2016 at Colombo. 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