Bangalore Open Tenpin Bowling Championships: Sarda retains top prize
Earlier Shabbir had pipped local favorite Akaash Ashok Kumar by two pins (247- 245) to move into the finals.
Bengaluru: Dhruv Sarda of Delhi retained the title at the third Bangalore Open Tenpin Bowling Championships which concluded at the Amoeba Bowling Center on Saturday.
In the finals of the Open division, played on challenge the leader format, top seeded Dhruv Sarda comfortably against Shabbir Dhankot of TN (234 – 180) to take home Prize money Rs 1.25 Lakhs.
Dhruv started with two spares and followed it up with a turkey in next three frames before finishing the final two frames with a bagger and a score of 234.
Shabbir opened Frame 1 with a 7-10 split scored double strikes in next two frames. But he opened again in frame 8 and did not get connection of strikes to finish with score of just 180 and losing the finals.
Earlier Shabbir had pipped local favorite Akaash Ashok Kumar by two pins (247- 245) to move into the finals.
Akaash comfortably won his match against teenage sensation Kishan R of Karnataka who played his maiden step ladder round (247- 158).