Defending champion Aditya Mehta has been taken out in the first round of the 2017 World Games by Poland’s Kacper Filipiak. Indian ace Mehta was an impressive winner of the Games when they were held in Colombia 4 years ago, particularly as he beat highly-rated Chinese Liang Wenbo 3-0 in the final. However, Metha was unable to repeat his exploits during this year’s tournament in Poland, as he was beaten by home-favourite Filipiak 3-1.
Filipiak, who has previously played on the professional tour and recorded victories against John Higgins, Stephen Maguire and Marco Fu at the 2011 World Cup, raced into a 2-0 lead during Thursday’s contest. Mehta did pull a frame back to give himself hope, but it was the Pole who held his nerve to book his place in the quarter-finals. Filipiak’s reward for reaching the last eight is a clash with 2016 IBSF U-21 champion Xu Si, who made light work of beating Pakistan’s Mohammad Bilal 3-0 in his first-round match.
The winner of Friday’s quarter-final between Filipiak and Xu Si will face either Declan Brennan or two-time World Championship finalist Ali Carter in the last four on Saturday.
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