International cueist Asutosh Padhy clinched a double by adding the snooker crown to the billiards title in the 28th Odisha State Senior Billiards & Snooker Championships at Cuttack Club in Cuttack today. Bhubaneswar cueist Asutosh, who had bagged the billiards title earlier on October 28, won the snooker final, defeating his home-city opponent Kunal Agarwal by 6-1 frames today.
This was the third State senior snooker title for Asutosh and third double crown as well. Former State champion Agarwal settled as runner-up in both billiards and snooker events this year.
State Sports Department OSD Sonali Chand joined the trophy presentation ceremony as chief guest. Also present on the occasion were: Cuttack Club President Dr Jayant Panda, Secretary Jasobant Das, Billiards & Snooker Association of Odisha Secretary Srimoy Kar and Tournament Coordinators Govind Sharma and Sameer Ali.
STATE SENIOR SNOOKER RESULTS:
30 October: Govind Sharma bt Sujit Agrawal 3-1; Mishal Swain bt Siddhant Manek 3-0; Chirag Arora bt Khalid Sultan 3-0; Chandra Mohanty bt Vishesh Singhal 3-0; Sudip Dash bt Prakash Nangalia 3-1; Sameer Ali bt Satya Mohan Rath 3-0; Rumit Gupta beat Amaresh Swain (w/o).
31 October: Ashwini Patnaik bt Rishab Parekh 3-0; B Dash bt Sandeep Aggarwal 3-0; Sidharth Sen bt Gyana Dash 3-0; Chiranjeev Singh bt Saroj Das 3-2; Kunal Agarwal bt Anand Das 3-0; Piyush Sharma bt Abhishek Mahananda (w/o).
1 November: Satyakam Mohapatra bt J P Biswal 3-0; Md Raza bt Amit Singh 3-1; Subrat Das bt Piyush Sharma 3-0; Akram Khan bt Satyajyoti Mohanty 3-1; Rajat Dhal bt Anubhav Agrawal 3-0; Asutosh Padhy bt Satyakam Mohapatra 3-0; Anuj Panda bt B Dash 3-0.
2 November: Siddharth Sen bt Rumit Gupta 3-0; Soubhagya Behera bt Akram Khan 3-0; Kunal Agarwal bt Mishal swain 3-0; Asutosh Padhy bt Chandra Mohanty 3-0; Abinash Mohapatra bt Chiranjeev Singh 3-0.
3 November: Subrat Das bt Ashwini Patnaik 3-0; Sameer Ali bt Md Raza (w/o); Abinash Mohapatra bt Chirag Arora 3-2; Kunal Agarwal bt Govind Sharma 3-0; Anuj Panda bt Rajat Dhal 3-2; Soubhagya Behera bt Sudip Dash 3-1.
4 November (QFs): Subrat Das bt Abinash Mohapatra 4-0; Kunal Agrawal bt Soubhagya Behera 4-3; Asutosh Padhy bt Siddharth Sen 4-0; Anuj Panda bt Sameer Ali 4-0.
5 November (SFs): Kunal Agarwal bt Anuj Panda 5-1; Asutosh Padhy bt Subrat Das 5-3.
6 November (Final): Asutosh Padhy bt Kunal Agrawal 6-1 (65-64, 48-10, 61-45, 30-55, 64-15, 73-10, 50-28).
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PHOTO: State Senior billiards and snooker champion Asutosh Padhy (Left) and runner-up Kunal Agarwal with their trophies in Cuttack on 6 November 2022.