Kathmandu, March 3: Laxman Agrawal entered the final round of the All Nepal Carlsberg Snooker Championship, following his straight forward 4-0 win over Bhagirath Tulsiyan in the preliminary final here today at the Club, Bhat Bhateni.

The final, 42nd one to be held so far under the tournament organised by Gorkha Brewary Ltd in association with Billiards, Snooker and Pool Association of Nepal saw Tulsiyan begin the game with error after pathetic error and was never into it. That released pressure off Agrawal and he barely looked back thereafter registering the first cake walk win so far in the tournament.

The award of Rs. 2,000 for the highest break at the venue went to Pankaj Baraida, who had scored a 21-point break there in the quarterfinals.

Meanwhile, Hom Bahadur Nepal, Deepak Bishwokarma and Ngudup set up the summit class at Club de Pokhara, following their win in best of nine frame semifinals.

Nepali, who was trailing by 22 points to his rival Nabin Pun in the first frame. But demonstrating the precision and poise, he quickly shrugged off that deficit and went on to take that frame at 60-48.

Pun fared below his mark in the second and third, failing to match Nepali’s perfection on the table and handed out an easy win to Nepali. he completed the match in style, winning the last four frames with the score of 57-15, 68-26, 45-36, 57-19.

To join Nepali in the final, the rising young cueist Deepak Bishwokarma overpowered his much experienced opposition Lokman Gurung by 5-3.

After conceding the first two frames to Bishwokarma, 23-62, 21-55, Gurung came up strongly, executing some outstanding pocketing on the table to take charge of the game in the middle when he won three frame in succession, 64-22, 54-26 and 61-46 to for a 3-2 lead.

But his game deteriorated considerably thereafter, especially during crunch situations and Bishwokarma won the next three at 53-32, 64-45 and 50-47 to set up Saturday’s final with Hom Bahadur Nepali.