Ravindra Kumar Gupta(RKG)

In its continued efforts to promote Cue Sports, Mr Ravindra Kumar Gupta promoter of RKG Snooker Organised With The  Able Support Of Manmeet Bhatia And His team,second national level tournament of 10 Red Snooker with the name RKG Indian 2nd 10 Red Snooker Championship 2019 in Nainital, Uttarakhand, from 15 April 2019 to April 19, 2019.

The Event Was Very Very Succesful and Enjoyed By All the spectators, Referees, officials, Organisers And players. Few Top national Players Who Have Represented India at various International Level tournaments and Participated In Our Tournament Are Listed Here Below.

1.Sourav Kothari    (International Player)

2.Laxman Rawat      (International Player)

3.Kamal Chawla      (International Player)

4.Manan Chandra     (International Player)

5.Divya Sharma      (International Player)

6.Rafath Habib      (International Player)

7.Sumit Talwar      (International Player)

8.Shoaib Khan       (International Player)

9.Brijesh Damani    (International Player)

10.Sundeep Gulati   (International Player)

11.Anuj Uppal       (International Player)

12.Akshay Kumar     (International Player)

13.Pushpender Singh (International Player)

14.Nitesh Madan     (International Player)

15.R.Girish         (International Player)

16.Avinash Kumar    (International Player)

17.Faisal Khan      (International Player)

In This Event There Were Four qualifying Rounds At Different Places all Over India, At Chandigarh, Bengaluru, Delhi, and Haldwani. From Each Place Four 
Players Qualified For The Main Event at Nainital. Chief Referee, Mr. N.Waseem Ahmed (international Referee)  Along With Other Referees Took Care Of All The Matches Which Went  Very smoothly And Comfortably.

The total prize money of the tournament was 5.25 Lakhs and is one of the biggest prize money Tournament in Indian Snooker Calendar.

The event was a grand success As most Of The top national players participated and gave their best, climate and location was 
awesome and the finale was fittingly fiercely competitive when Billiards World Champion and Arjuna Awardee Sourav Kothari beats Divya Sharma (current Bronze Medallist 
in IBSF World Team Championship 15 Red in 2018) in Close battle by 6-4.

RKG also added a bit of colour in the tournament by Introducing shootout tournament of last 8 players on the final day of the event which was thoroughly enjoyed by spectators, players, Referees, officials and everyone present in the arena.

The tournament was Also won by Sourav Kothari beating Paras Gupta in a one-sided match. 

Mr. Gupta in his speech thanks all the players, officials and spectators for 
making the tournament grand success and also emphasised the need of promoting the Cue Sports in India by Government authorities in a big way.