Former National 6Reds runner-up, Rahul Sachdev of Maharashtra achieved his career best by winning the 1st All India Open - Invitational Snooker Championship 2016 at Aurangabad.

Sailing in cue sports since last five years, Rahul had achieved the highest by reaching in the National 6Reds final in the year 2013 but winning the All India level Invitation tournament is a major breakthrough and certainly will raise his confidence in the years to come.

In the final, Rahul defeated current national 6Reds no.4 Pushpender Singh of Railways 5-3. Though Pushpender emerged as a strong contender and had lost only one frame before reaching the final but Rahul was determined, focused and made his intentions clear in the first frame only where he scored a break of 104. however, Rahul went down by two frames but after that he capitalized the finale in his own style and won the title 5-3. (Frame Score 110(104)-23, 24-70, 32-83, 62-64, 65-08, 84-06, 71-63, 98-49).

Before reaching the final, Rahul oust Laxman Rawat (Railways) 5-1 whereas Pushpender Singh knocked out Kamal Chawla of Railways 5-1.