Mehta completes a creditable victory in Turkey
filed on Tuesday, November 5, 2019. 8:51am PT/USA
The United States' Nitin Mehta completed his Masters' event Group campaign with a victory on day eight of play at the 2019 International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF) World Snooker Championships at the Starlight Resort Hotel in Antalya, Turkey, and the draw for the knockout stage of Men's event has been made.
The Californian was playing for pride as he was not in a position to advance into the knockout stage of the Masters' event, but he ran out a very good 3-2 winner over India's Anuj Uppal who nevertheless still qualifies from Group M in third place.
Amitabh Seth also concluded his Group N matches in the Masters' event with a 3-0 loss to Qatar's Mohammad Al-Binali.
In the Men's event, both Ahmed Aly Elsayed and Ajeya Prabhakar managed to advance direct into the round of 64 after qualification from their respective Groups, with the reigning United States National Snooker Champion drawn against Poland's Mateusz Baranowski who won Group M, and Prabhakar facing Hong Kong's Wang Yuchen who won Group K.
Both round of 64 ties will be played tomorrow, November 6, with Aly's match commence at 1pm local time, and Prabhakar's match commencing at 4pm local time.
Aly's Men's event playing schedule & results:
(start times are stated in local time, +3 hrs GMT)
Group H Match 1: October 30, 4pm start - lost to Zhao Jianbo (China) 1 - 4
Group H Match 2: October 31, 7pm start - lost to Ben Fortey (Wales) 1 - 4
Group H Match 3: November 1, 7pm start - def. Tomas Kubicek (Czech Republic) 4 - 1
Group H Match 4: November 4, 1pm start - def. Mhanaa Alobaidli (Qatar) 4 - 3
Round of 64: November 6, 1pm start - vs. Mateusz Baranowski (Poland)
Prabhakar's Men's event playing schedule & results:
(start times are stated in local time, +3 hrs GMT)
Group L Match 1: October 30, 7pm start - def. Shachar Ruberg (Israel) 4 - 2
Group L Match 2: October 31, 7pm start - lost to Babar Masih (Pakistan) 0 - 4
Group L Match 3: November 1, 4pm start - lost to Osip Zusmanovic (Czech Republic) 2 - 4
Group L Match 4: November 2, 1pm start - def. Kayhan Durukan (Turkey) 4 - 0
Round of 64: November 6, 4pm start - vs. Wang Yuchen (Hong Kong)
Kovacs's Men's event playing schedule & results:
(start times are stated in local time, +3 hrs GMT)
Group M Match 1: October 29, 4pm start - lost to Mateusz Baranowski (Poland) 0 - 4
Group M Match 2: October 31, 7pm start - lost to Mihai Vladu (Romania) 1 - 4
Group M Match 3: November 1, 4pm start - lost to Milad Fathpour Kashani (Iran) 2 - 4
Group M Match 4: November 2, 1pm start - lost to Ali Hussein (Iraq) 0 - 4
Mehta's Masters' event playing schedule & results:
(start times are stated in local time, +3 hrs GMT)
Group M Match 1: October 30, 10am start - lost to Graham Beardmore (England) 1 - 3
Group M Match 2: November 1, 10am start - lost Steven Thomas (Wales) 1 - 3
Group M Match 3: November 2, 4pm start - lost to Ihab Al-Salih (Iraq) 0 - 3
Group M Match 4: November 5, 4pm start - def. Anuj Uppal (India) 3 - 2
Seth's Masters' event playing schedule & results:
(start times are stated in local time, +3 hrs GMT)
Group N Match 1: October 30, 4pm start - lost to Gušni Pįlsson (Iceland) 0 - 3
Group N Match 2: November 1, 4pm start - lost to Alok Kumar (India) 0 - 3
Group N Match 3: November 4, 4pm start - lost to Muhammed Leysi (Turkey) 1 - 3
Group N Match 4: November 5, 4pm start - lost to Mohammad Al-Binali (Qatar) 0 - 3
SnookerUSA.com will report on all of the United States players' match results throughout the Championships.