Sethi, Pankaj and Gilchrist in pre-quarters

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Defending champion Pankaj Advani, Geet Sethi and Suriya Suwannasingh (Thailand) advanced to the pre-quarters of the ONGC-IBSF World Billiards time format Championship.

BANGALORE: Defending champion Pankaj Advani, eight time world champion Geet Sethi and Suriya Suwannasingh (Thailand) advanced to the pre-quarters of the ONGC-IBSF World Billiards time format Championship here Sunday.
    
Pankaj and Sethi completed their league engagements after winning all the three matches they played.
    
Pankaj defeated S M Shaharwardi (Sri Lanka) 1483-655 in his last league encounter. He posted breaks of 239 in seventh visit, 138 in 17th and 109 during his 51st visit.
    
Sethi, a contender for the title, outplayed Gary Norman (EBOS) 1544-362. Sethi recorded good breaks of 312 in 16th visit followed by 308 in 45th unfinished visit.

Suriya Suwannasingh defeated Wayne Carey (NZ) 782-431.
   
Others to sail into the last sixteen include B Bhaskar (India), Rupesh Shah (India), Thanh Binh Nguyen (Vietnam) and Prem Prakash (India).
   
Other results:Peter Gilchrist (Singpore) bt Shyam Jagtiani (India) 1007-735; Md. Asim (India) bt Raghoo Singh (India) 812-698; B Bhaskar (Ind) bt Gary Oliver (NZ) 1236-440; Praprut Chaithanasakun (Thai) bt Brijesh Damani (Ind) 1015-497; Aidan Murray (Ire) bt Tiek Chong Alan Puan (Sing) 538-426; Prem Prakash (Ind) bt Michael Wright (EBOS) 1527-528.
  
Boon Aun Keith E (Singapore) bt Darren Taylor (New Sealand) 633-598; Devendra Joshi (India) bt Thawat Sujaritthurakarn (Thailand) 1171-556; Saourav Kothari (India) bt Thanh Long Nguyen (Vietnam) 1231-427; Dhruv Sitwala (India) bt Mohammed Aslam (Sri Lanka) 1312-505; Thanh Binh Nguyen (Vietnam) bt Larry Drennan (Ireland)  852-602; Calum Hossack (Scotland) got walk over against Philip Mumford (England).