Asian Games: Pankaj Advani bows out of snooker singles event, Aditya Mehta in quarters

Pankaj Advani's hopes of winning another medal at the Asian Games were today cut short by China's Junhui Ding but Aditya Mehta kept the Indian challenge alive by advancing into the quarterfinals of the snooker singles event at the Town Gymnasium.

Advani failed to replicate his gold-winning performance in billiards and lost 1-4 to top-seed Junhui in the pre-quarterfinals of the individual event.

Advani, the last edition's gold medallist in the Billiards singles, lost tamely to Junhui 11-100 86-0 1-84 0-88 7-88 to bow out of medal contention.

However, another Indian in the fray, Mehta displayed fine potting skills by occupying the cue table for most of the time to win the best of seven frames pre-quarterfinal 4-2 against Chinese Taipei's Yu-Lun Wu.

Mehta once again showed his prowess at the green baize and won 67-39 49-69 74-42 16-69 72-0 69-37 to book his berth in the last-eight stage.

The Indian cueist will next meet Singapore's BC Ang, who defeated Malaysia's CL Thou 4-2, in the quarters tomorrow.

India have so far won three cue sports medals at the Games.