22 November,2009 08:28 AM IST | | IANS
The home advantage seems to be working well for the Indians with as many as nine men making it to the round of 32 in the ONGC-IBSF World snooker championships. Geet Sethi (Masters) advanced to the quarter-finals.
Realistically, either top seed Alok Kumar or Yasin Merchant, who face each other next, and Pankaj Advani, who look the best bet to carry the Indian hopes.u00a0 Though one cannot discount the likes of Manan Chandra and Aditya Mehta, neither has shown the kind of form to evoke as much optimism