20-Apr-2009 131
Ahsaun-ul Haque fought back from the jaws of defeat to reach the semifinals of the first CSA All-Orissa Open Snooker Tournament at Cue Sport Academy in Bhubaneswar today.
Trailing by 1-3 frames, fourth seed Haque won the last three frames in style to defeat Nishant Biswal 4-3 in theur exciting quarterfinal clash.
Seventh seed Surya Prakash Patnaik suffered an upset when he was beaten 3-2 by Devbrat Rout in a pre-quarterfinal match.
But second seed Rakesh Roshan Pradhan and third seed Subrat Das had it easy as they posted 3-0 identical wins to join Rout in the round of eight.
Results: Quarterfinals: Ahsan-ul Haque bt Nishant Biswal 4-3 (40-63, 46-56, 77-16, 33-64, 80-19, 82-45, 71-34).
Pre-quarters: Devbrat Rout bt Sourya Prakash Patnaik 3-2 (84-55, 6-59, 63-35, 43-67, 68-52): Rakesh Roshan Pradhan bt Ashutosh Padhy 3-0 (70-34, 59-49, 69-20): Subrat Das bt Avishek
Mahananda 3-0 (51-22, 49-14, 54-18).
