By Admin 
Karnataka’s Keerthana Pandian came up with a gritty effort to show reigning champion Amee Kamani the door in the women’s semifinals of the National 6-Red Snooker Championships here on Friday.
Keerthana’s surprisingly lopsided 4-1 win over the formidable Amee helped her set up a final date with Anupama Ramachandran, the reigning Asian snooker champion. Tamil Nadu cueist Anupama scored a comfortable 4-1 win over Ishika Shah of Madhya Pradesh.
Dhvaj Haria
In the men’s section, Railways Pushpender Singh will lock horns with Dhvaj Haria of PSPB in the title clash. Both came through their semifinals without breaking a sweat. While Pushpender outplayed his young rival Digvijay Kadian 6-2, Haria overcame seasoned Brijesh Damani 6-3 in the other semifinal.
Earlier, Damani had to play out of his skin to overcome Karnataka’s I.H. Manudev 5-4 in the last-eight stage.
Results: Men: Semifinals: Pushpender Singh (Rlys) bt Digvijay Kadian (Har) 6-2; Dhvaj Haria (PSPB) bt Brijesh Damani (PSPB) 6-3.
Quarterfinals: Damani bt IH Manudev (Kar) 5-4 (9-51, 20-44, 34-2, 33-34, 44-0, 42-37, 34-21, 20-28, 32-18); Haria bt Laxman Rawat (PSPB) 5-4; Digvijay bt Sourav Kothari (PSPB) 5-3; Pushpender bt Shrikrishna (PSPB) 5-3.
Women: Semifinals: Keerthana Pandian (Kar) bt Amee Kamani (MP) 4-1 (43-0, 36-33, 31-43, 39-1, 50-1); Anupama Ramachandran (TN) bt Ishika Shah (MP) 4-1 (33-22, 45-4, 18-31, 46-36, 48-6).
Quarterfinals: Keerthana bt Arantxa Sanchis (Mah) 4-2; Anupama bt Snenthra Babu (TN) 4-0; Amee bt Shruthi (TN) 4-0; Ishika bt Suniti Damani (WB) 4-2.