Kathmandu, Feb. 28: Tenzing Ngudup, Buddha Lama, Ganga Thapa, Saroj Mulmi entered the final undefeated as they won the preliminary finals at different outlets under the All Nepal Carlsberg Snooker Championship being organised by Gorkha Brewery Ltd in association with Billiards, Snooker and Pool Association of Nepal here Monday.

Gnudup, once again playing with precision and poise, defeated Hitesh Bista 5-2 in the best of nine final at Hong Kong Snooker House. After reeling off first two frames, while trying to finish off the match quickly played quite erratically in the middle to drop the third and significant breaks in the last two frames, winning them on 102-27, 119-19 win the match and cash prize of Rs. 5,000.

He also collected Rs. 2,000 for his highest break of 73 points that he registered in the semifinal.

In the close final held at Black and White Snooker Club, Buddha Lama, after dropping an opening frame finished off the final in nerveless way for a 4-3 win over Prem Tamang.

Tamang gave him a good fight as he took the fourth set on 62-29 to level the match at 2-2 after Lama won the second and third with the score of 86-23, 54-32. The match entered the interesting moment, hobbling at 3-3. But it was Lama who rode the luck at the end of the day to clinch the match as the award for the highest break, 27, that was only a point more than what Tamang achieved in the match.

A lot was expected of the best of eleven final at Everest Snooker House but it only turned out to be a one-sided after with Ganga Thapa winning by relative ease as he dropped only one frame to Tenzing Gurung.

Thapa got off to a flyer which completely unsettled Gurung, who apart from taking the fourth frame, 92-5, failed to make a match. Besides winning the final, Thapa’s break of 39 points in the sixth frame also fetched him the cash reward for highest break.

Likewise, also to march into the final round without any defeat were Saroj Mulmi from Black Stallion, Utsav Shrestha from Narayangardh’s Revilal-that House of Pools.

Mulmi made a good start, taking the opening frame at 101-28 in which he also registered the tournament’s bigest break of 55 in the final against Diken Suwal. The next four frames brought some exictement as Suwal, staging a fightback took second and fifth frames, 55-27 and 68-29, to narrow the margin to 2-3. But Mulmi replied strongly in the remaining frames by taking them 57-35 and 112-21 to wrap up the match. In the other final, Utsav Shrestha beat Gopal Rasaili quite comfortably to enter the final round with a clean sheet.