Chennai: Delhi's Nitesh Madan constructed a break of 41 in the deciding fifth frame to upset India No.3 Lalrina Renthlei of Mizoram 3-2 in the SVS All India Junior snooker tournament here Tuesday.
After the duo shared four frames, Madan made a break of 41 before going in-off on the brown, but Renthlei could not take advantage of the situation and went down in five frames.
Meanwhile, Karnataka's newly crowned six-red champion Mundir Shrazi posted the tournament's highest break so far of 72.
The results:
Group A: Germain Girish (KAR) bt K Rakesh (TN) 3-0; Laxman Rawat (DEL) bt S.Shri Krishna (TN) 3-1; Girish bt Varsha Sanjeev (KAR) 3-2; Rawat bt Rakesh 3-0.
Group B: Lakshman ML (KAR) bt K Rajan (TN) 3-0; Lakshman bt E Sundar Raj (TN) 3-0; Himanshu Jain (AP) bt Kaavya Bharath (TN) 3-0; Jain bt Rajan 3-0.
Group C: Mundir Sherazi (KAR) bt Nitesh Madan (DEL) 3-1; Lalrina Renthlei (MIZ) bt B Jagadesh (TN) 3-1; Ishpreet Singh (MAH) bt Sherazi 3-1; Madan bt Renthlei 3-2.
Group D: Lalit Dahiya (DEL) bt R Subhash (TN) 3-0; Malkeet Singh (UP) bt Rishit Jain (DEL) 3-2; Jain bt Peter Paul (TN) 3-1; Malkeet bt Dahiya 3-1. (IANS)