Sethi Soars

India's Geet Sethi won two matches at the World Billiards Championship in Leeds on Friday and now looks set to qualify for the quarter-finals.

The six-times champion had a tough encounter with Rupesh Shah, coming to the table 108 point down with eight minutes remaining, before fashioning a superb unfinished 128. Sethi had a much easier victory in his next game, beating Matthew Sutton 1199-223 and making a magnificent break of 517.

Mike Russell won his crucial match against Peter Gilchrist 719-393 with a top run of 222, while defending champion Pankaj Advani continued his smooth progress with an 818-469 defeat of Devender Joshi.
Friday results:
First session
Sourav Kothari 718 (206,96,58,86), beat Martin Goodwill 262 (51)
30 visits
Siddarth Parikh 351 (111,87), lost to Matthew Sutton 385 (97,108,83)
22 visits
Mark Hirst 347 (82), lost to Phil Mumford 599 (52,99,101,103)
27 visits
Gary Rogers 148, lost to Robert Marshall 730 (63,92,71,93,65,66)
38 visits

Second session
Mike Russell 719 (61,100,106,222), beat Peter Gilchrist 393 (117,129)
23 visits

Dhruv Sitwala 593 (87,100,88,62,73), beat David Causier 498 (91,60,52,143)
34 visits

Pankaj Advani 818 (134,95,209,101,56), beat Devender Joshi 469 (105,84)
37 visits

Rupesh Shah 441 (230), lost to Geet Sethi 461 (63,65,82,128unf)
26 visits
Third session
Gary Rogers 368 (55), beat Ian Williamson 277
39 visits

Mark Hirst 560 (58,68,95,87,52), beat Ashok Shandilya 386 (160,80)
20 visits

Sourav Kothari 1152 (195,105,155,169,100), beat Sushrat Pandia 189
34 visits

Siddharth Parikh 964 (99,105,89,121,97,86,90,82,72), beat Bem French 201

Fourth session

Devender Joshi 493 (207), lost to Martin Goodwill 500 (73,184,85)
33 visits

Geet Sethi 1199 (163,51,67,517,53,303unf), beat Matthew Sutton 223 (54
15 visits

Peter Gilchrist 674 (129,173,53,110), beat Robert Marshall 422 (70,75,63)
34 visits

David Causier 1150 (87,96,154,76,68,236,54), beat Phil Mumford 289 (93)