Reigning National Champion Dhruv Sarda has once again come very close to finishing at the podium at ABF Tour event. He has made Indian Bowling Community proud by finished 4th in Hongkong Open 2017.
Dhruv had qualified to Round 2 of the event just by a whisker but performed really well to finish 3rd to qualify for step ladder round. In the step ladder round match 2 open frames cost him dearly and he finished overall 4th.
This is second time in this year, after DIBC International Open ,Dubai earlier, that Dhruv has managed to reach the stepladder round on ABF tour.
Highlight of the Day 2
Men 's Open :
- Former National Champ Vijay Punjabi came closer to overtaking highest MQ of the Championship till date , scored by AnuKriti, but fell short by 5 pins and finished with 722.He is leading the table in the Open Division with Total pinfall of 1399 & Average of 233 .
- Premkumar improved upon his pinfall tally to 1284.
- Other Top Scorers
- Akaash -- 1276
- Dhruv -- 1271
- Huned K - 1266
Men's Graded A :
- 2 bowlers have already scored over 1200..!!
- Salman Khan 1208
- Antony Raj Kumar 1201
- 2 bowlers scored their first block over 600
- Sahil Punjabi 634
- Surendra Babu 624 .
Highlight of the Day 1
- Anukriti Bishnoi ( Haryana) scored the first 700 series ..of the Championships !!! First Indian Woman to score 700 series in block of 3 games !!
228 , 275 , 223
Total = 726
Ave : 242
- Top Performers :
- 17 year old Shoumick Datta playing his first individual event on a National Level, scored 659 and 615 in Graded B .
- In Men's Graded A, Naresh P and Antony Rajkumar score 613 and 602 respectively .
- In Open Division, Vijay Punjabi scored 677, Premkumar 664, Huned 634 & Dhruv Sarda 62
Scoresheets Attached