Kathmandu, March 1: Nabin Suwal won the final of the preliminary round Wednesday at Eshani Club to reach the final round under the All Nepal Carlsberg Snooker Championship, organised by Gorkha Brewery Ltd in association with Billiards, Snooker and Pool Association of Nepal.

Suwal had a poor final to begin with as he dropped the opening frame, 50-72 to Ramesh Bhattachan but he was a different player altogether going into the next frame.

Bhattachan apart from occasional flare otherwise failed to match the exemplary skills of Suwal, who put back the score at square one with 57-35 win the second frame. Suwal hardly looked back thereafter, taking the last four frames quite comfortably to join the final round remaining undefeated.

The score of the last four frames read 54-40, 80-26, 65-44, 63-56 in favour of Suwal. He received the winner’s certificate as well as a cheque of Rs. 5,000 while the cash reward of Rs. 2,000 for registering the highest break of the venue was collected by Bhuvan Shrestha, who scored a break of 37 points.

At Club de Pokhara, Pradeep Adhikari, ranked number one thee surprisingly fell to Milendra Gurung in the pre-quarterfinals.

Adhikari was leading by three frames to one and was well at the doorstep of next phase, but Gurung stunned him by taking the next three frames in succession. In the other exciting match, Laxman Gurung, despite taking a healthy 2-0 lead failed to sustain same level of game and ended up losing the match 2-4 to Suraj Shrestha.

Meanwhile, experienced Basanta Gauchan continued his winning form by defeating his novice rival Ashok Gurung by virtue of 4-2.

Chandra Prasad Gurung was another casualty, going down without any resistance to Deepak Bishwokarma by a score of 4-0.

Others to March into next round were number two seed Laxman Gurung who beat Sagar Sherchan by 4-2. Likewise, Nabin Pun beat Prakash Gurung by 4-0, Lokman Gurung put off the challenge of Khush Bahadur Gurung by same scoreline while Hom Bahadur Nepali had an easy 4-0 walk through against Jasram Gurung.