Kolkata cueist Sourav Kothari put up a dominating display on the green baize to outplay Siddharth Parekh 5-2 in the final of the National Billiards Championship. Bagging his second National Billiards title, he won his maiden crown in 2014, Kothari started with a bang to win four straight frames in the best-of-nine frame (150-up each) summit clash.  The former Asian Billiards champion had three 100-plus breaks in the first four frames to unsettle Parekh, who was playing his first National Billiards final.
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“It (the competition) is complete field of billiards, great feeling. Siddharth was on a roll after getting past (Pankaj) Advani in the quarter-final and then he went past B Bhaskar in the semis 4-0. So he was the man to beat.

The finalists have also booked their berth for the Asian Billiards in Colombo starting March 1.