Madan shocks Renthlei in junior snooker

Chennai: Delhi's Nitesh Madan constructed a break of 41 in the deciding fifth frame to upset India No.3 Lalrina Renthlei of Mizoram 3-2 in the SVS All India Junior snooker tournament here Tuesday.

After the duo shared four frames, Madan made a break of 41 before going in-off on the brown, but Renthlei could not take advantage of the situation and went down in five frames.

Meanwhile, Karnataka's newly crowned six-red champion Mundir Shrazi posted the tournament's highest break so far of 72.

The results:

Group A: Germain Girish (KAR) bt K Rakesh (TN) 3-0; Laxman Rawat (DEL) bt S.Shri Krishna (TN) 3-1; Girish bt Varsha Sanjeev (KAR) 3-2; Rawat bt Rakesh 3-0.

Group B: Lakshman ML (KAR) bt K Rajan (TN) 3-0; Lakshman bt E Sundar Raj (TN) 3-0; Himanshu Jain (AP) bt Kaavya Bharath (TN) 3-0; Jain bt Rajan 3-0.

Group C: Mundir Sherazi (KAR) bt Nitesh Madan (DEL) 3-1; Lalrina Renthlei (MIZ) bt B Jagadesh (TN) 3-1; Ishpreet Singh (MAH) bt Sherazi 3-1; Madan bt Renthlei 3-2.

Group D: Lalit Dahiya (DEL) bt R Subhash (TN) 3-0; Malkeet Singh (UP) bt Rishit Jain (DEL) 3-2; Jain bt Peter Paul (TN) 3-1; Malkeet bt Dahiya 3-1. (IANS)

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