Sarangi suffers upset: Das, Sen advance

Subhranshu Kar caused an upset by defeating third seed Jiten Sarangi 3-1 in a second round match of the 5th Pradeep Sen Memorial All-Orissa Open Snooker Tournament at Cuttack Club, Cuttack today. But fifth seed Jeet Kishore Das and sixth seed Siddharth Sen registered cake-walk wins to advance to the third round. Three other cueists — Ankit Bhawsinka, Sandipani Mishra and Sonu Mohanty — won the last three first round matches of the day. Results: First round: Ankit Bhawsinka bt Abhilash Mahananda 2-0 (58-28, 59-17): Sandipani Mishra bt Shahid Dervish 48-37, 44-30): Sonu Mohanty bt Deepak Agarwal 2-1 (23-65, 59-52, 52-11). Second round: Subhranshu Kar bt Jiten Sarangi 3-1 (48-37, 18-54, 60-24, 44-31): Jeet Kishore Das bt Bipin Agarwal 3-0 (44-20, 49-30, 66-23): Siddharth Sen bt Sanjeev Sahoo 3-0 (63-19, 62-22, 78-18): Amit Nanda bt Rahul Gupta 3-2 (62-23, 42-44, 50-45, 38-49, 65-13).

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