<p>India's Varsha Sanjeev and Chitra Magimairajan entered the quarter-final of the IBSF World Snooker Championships even as the men's challenge ended in the last-16 round here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Even among the two Indian women, only one will finish on the podium as the two cueists will battle it out for a place in the semifinals to bag a bronze medal at least.<br /><br />Incidentally, 17-year-old Varshaa and seasoned Chitra beat their national teammates to set up a clash later in the day.<br /><br />Varsha outperformed Arantxa Sanchis 4-1 while Chitra got the better of Vidya Pillai 2-4 yesterday.<br /><br />Varshaa finally showed her maturity as she combined aggression, for potting from any where, with caution to beat Arantxa.<br /><br />Chitra, on the other hand, started in her usual style winning the first two frames with confidence. But Vidya got her act together to bring parity.<br /><br />But having a record of sorts for failing too many times from winning position, she kept her resolve to rise to Vidya's slow play.<br /><br />Manan Chandra and Shahbaaz Adil Khan lost to England's Jeff Cundy and Zhao Xintong of China in their respective pre-quarterfinal matches to end India's march in the men's section yesterday.<br /><br />While Chandra was outclassed 0-5 by Cundy, Shahbaaz was defeated 1-5 in an one-sided contest.<br /><br />Chandra was never allowed a chance to look in or settle down by Cundy. In the fourth frame, Chandra had a break to seize the lead but Cundy came up with a 74 break to win the frame while Shahbaaz was way below-par and when opportunities arose he failed to grab them.<br /><br />Results:<br /><br />Women's - Chitra Magimairajan beat Vidya Pillai 4-2 (79-40, 85-16, 33-59, 43-46, 74-56, 61-52)<br /><br />Varshaa Sanjeev beat Arantxa Sanchis 4-1 (68-26, 37-64, 54-19, 68-4, 59-33)<br />Men's: Manan Chandra lost to Jeff Cundy 5-0 (54-75, 0-120(103), 25-65, 69-74(74), 20-77)<br /><br />Shah Baaz Adil Khan lost to Zhao Xintong China 5-1 (46-83, 18-72, 40-67, 31-61, 85-54, 55-68).</p>
<p>India's Varsha Sanjeev and Chitra Magimairajan entered the quarter-final of the IBSF World Snooker Championships even as the men's challenge ended in the last-16 round here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Even among the two Indian women, only one will finish on the podium as the two cueists will battle it out for a place in the semifinals to bag a bronze medal at least.<br /><br />Incidentally, 17-year-old Varshaa and seasoned Chitra beat their national teammates to set up a clash later in the day.<br /><br />Varsha outperformed Arantxa Sanchis 4-1 while Chitra got the better of Vidya Pillai 2-4 yesterday.<br /><br />Varshaa finally showed her maturity as she combined aggression, for potting from any where, with caution to beat Arantxa.<br /><br />Chitra, on the other hand, started in her usual style winning the first two frames with confidence. But Vidya got her act together to bring parity.<br /><br />But having a record of sorts for failing too many times from winning position, she kept her resolve to rise to Vidya's slow play.<br /><br />Manan Chandra and Shahbaaz Adil Khan lost to England's Jeff Cundy and Zhao Xintong of China in their respective pre-quarterfinal matches to end India's march in the men's section yesterday.<br /><br />While Chandra was outclassed 0-5 by Cundy, Shahbaaz was defeated 1-5 in an one-sided contest.<br /><br />Chandra was never allowed a chance to look in or settle down by Cundy. In the fourth frame, Chandra had a break to seize the lead but Cundy came up with a 74 break to win the frame while Shahbaaz was way below-par and when opportunities arose he failed to grab them.<br /><br />Results:<br /><br />Women's - Chitra Magimairajan beat Vidya Pillai 4-2 (79-40, 85-16, 33-59, 43-46, 74-56, 61-52)<br /><br />Varshaa Sanjeev beat Arantxa Sanchis 4-1 (68-26, 37-64, 54-19, 68-4, 59-33)<br />Men's: Manan Chandra lost to Jeff Cundy 5-0 (54-75, 0-120(103), 25-65, 69-74(74), 20-77)<br /><br />Shah Baaz Adil Khan lost to Zhao Xintong China 5-1 (46-83, 18-72, 40-67, 31-61, 85-54, 55-68).</p>