Former National 6Reds runner-up Rahul Sachdev clinched his maiden title by winning the 1st All India Open Invitational Snooker Championship. Sailing in cue sports since last five years, Rahul had achieved the highest by reaching the National 6Reds final in the year 2013. Winning the All India level Invitation tournament is a major breakthrough and certainly will raise his confidence in the years to come. In the final, Rahul defeated current national 6Reds no.4 Pushpender Singh of Railways 5-3.

Did You Know?

• Snooker is said to have been devised in 1875 by bored army officers in India experimented with variations on billiards.
• Sir Neville Chamberlain  is credited with inventing the game.
• The game originally included 15 reds, yellow, green, pink and black. Brown and blue were only added later.
• The word ‘snooker’, a slang military term referring to someone who is inexperienced, became tied to the game after Chamberlain called an opponent a ‘snooker’ after he missed a pot.
• The first known indoor billiard table belonged to King Louis XI of France in the 15th century.
• Under the official rules of snooker, the referee shall, if a player is colour blind, tell him the colour of a ball if requested.
• Unlike some sports, Snooker can often transpire over a long period of time. The longest ever frame (single game) of Snooker was played between Shaun Murphy and Dave Harold 2008 in Beijing during the 2008 China Open and lasted a whopping 93 minutes and 12 seconds!