Kathmandu, March 2:Dipu regestered a comfortable 5-2 win over Ratna Krishna KC to win the preliminary final at Surya Binayak Snooker House today under the All Nepalese Carlsberg Snooker Championship being organised by Gorkha Brewery Ltd. in association with Billiards, Snooker and Pool Association of Nepal.

The best of nine frame final began quite interestingly with both Dipu and KC going neck to neck in the first two frames. Dipu, however managed to held his nerves in both of them to enjoy 2-0 lead, by winning 69-54, 69-50.

But KC crawled back into the game, registering a big break in the third to win it by a huge 90-9 margin. And leveled the match at 2-2 when he won the battle of nerves in the fourth by 45-30. Going into the fifth grame, he failed to cash in couple of easy chances and lost it 20-80. It was the crucial point of the match that turned the fortune on Dipu.

While KC’s game began to falter away, Dipu started to look more solid with his concentration on the table and went on to clear the table time and again. He registered a 23-point break in the sixth frame to close the game at 113-58 and followed it up with 47-22 to enter the final undefeated.

Meanwhile, top seed players continued to tuble at Club de Pokhara, as it was the turn of Laxman Gurung this time, going down 2-4 to Nabin Pun in the quarterfinals.

Gurung was completely humbled by the lightning start from Pun, who after clearing the table in the opening frame for 88-12 score, also took the second and third at 63-19, 68-31 for a 3-0 cushion. Although the number two seed, Gurung, reigned briefly during the match, winning fourth and fifth by 52-27, 53-32 that was no enough to stop Pun from advancing to the semifinals. Pun completed the match by winning the sixth at 64-49.

Lok Man Gurung ended the fairly tale run of Milendra Gurung by 403 in the other quarterfinal match that went all the way to its limit. Milendra Gurung, who put off the challenge of Pokhara’s number one player the other day, despite leading by 3-1 at one stage. The final score of the match read 35-39, 31-73, 53-18, 28-38, 57-27, 67-29, 65-27.

Likewise, Deepak BK and Hom Bahadur Nepali also advanced to the semifinals, following a hard fought win against Suraj Shrestha and Basanta Gauchan, BK dropped the first frame but held his nerves to win the match after much fettering with the score of 27-64, 47-45, 58-18, 58-63, 37-56, 51-45, and 46-26.

Nepali quelled the challenge of Gauchan also in seventh frame, winning at 56-46, 54-55, 36-46, 47-60, 54-23, 62-9, 61-28.