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    "excerpt": "Railway Sports Promotion Board: Malkeet Singh emerged as the new National 6-Red snooker men\u2019s champion after beating his Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) colleague E Pandurangaiah 7-5 in a keenly-contested best-of-13 frames final, following a morale-boosting come-from-behind 6-5 victory over favourite and 26-time IBSF world champion Pankaj Advani (PSPB) in the last-four stage.\n",
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    "editor1": "Railway Sports Promotion Board: Malkeet Singh emerged as the new National 6-Red snooker men\u2019s champion after beating his Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) colleague E Pandurangaiah 7-5 in a keenly-contested best-of-13 frames final, following a morale-boosting come-from-behind 6-5 victory over favourite and 26-time IBSF world champion Pankaj Advani (PSPB) in the last-four stage.\n<p>Pandurangaiah himself came into Saturday's title round high on confidence after putting it past fancied Aditya Mehta (PSPB) 6-4 in the other semifinal, but it was former champion Advani\u2019s upset, after having all but sealed the match at 5-3, that left the Indian cue sports community stunned.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Malkeet won the final three frames 59-0, 43-1, 67-13 in spectacular fashion against Advani to record the biggest upset in the ongoing 90th National Billiards &amp; Snooker Championships at the Nehru Indoor Stadium.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\"Malkeet held his nerve and got the better of me towards the end,\" said Advani, former champion and last edition\u2019s runner-up, who subsequently lost the third-place match to Mehta.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In women\u2019s 6-Red snooker, defending champion Vidya Pillai of Karnataka headlines a strong quarterfinal field that includes the current IBSF world U-21 snooker champion Keerthana Pandian (Karnataka) and runner-up Anupama Ramachandran (Tamil Nadu).<\/p>\r\n\r\n",
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