Kolkata: 14-year-old boy from Tamil Nadu, S. Shrikrishna becomes the 2015 National Sub-Junior Billiards champion today by defeating this year's top seed player Ishpreet Chadha of Maharashtra 326-283 here in BRC-Gloster National Billiards and Snooker Championship at Bengal Rowing Club, Kolkata.

Shrikrishna was in his attacking form since the first shot of his visit. Starting off from a cannon, he made first break of 54 points. However, after few visits, Ishpreet countered that and made break of 52 points, but once again Shrikrishna exhibited excellent shots and made another break of 55 points.

After that Shrikrishna did not look behind and kept scoring at regular intervals to get closer to the national title.

Finally, the timer rang and Shrikrishna became the national champion of Sub-Junior category for the year 2015.

Shivam Parashar from Haryana beat Gujarat's player Raghav Agarwal 2-1 in a very exciting Round of 32 match in Sub-Junior Snooker category.

Shivam Parashar had no problem in winning the first frame, but he lost the second frame by narrow margin (49-57) and landed into the decider.

In the decider, Raghav gave him a very tough fight and was leading by 8 points with all colour balls on table. At that stage, Shivam planted a challenging snooker, which awarded him 12 points and lead over Raghav.

However, Raghav tried to pull the match but couldn't succeed and Shivam potted all colours till pink in couple of visits and moved into Last 16 stage.

The Junior Billiards main round started today where Ishpreet Chadha of Maharashtra reached in Pre-quarters after getting a walkover from Tanurag Gautam of Chandigarh.

Jagadesh B. of Tamil Nadu registered an easy win over Rishab Gulati of Delhi 432-138. Jagadesh made two breaks of 50 and 68 points.