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Doha, Nov 9 (PTI) India’s Hussian Khan scored a shock 4-2 win over fancied Brendon O’Donoghue of Ireland in his opening league match of the IBSF World Snooker Championships here on Sunday.

The 29-year-old Indian, who came through the first stage qualification, took a quick 3-0 lead over the Irish cueist in the best-of-seven frame Group ‘L’ match. O’Donoghue pulled one back with a break of 62 in the fourth, and won a nervy fifth on the black.

But Hussian regrouped quickly to take the sixth frame and the match.

Later, former champion Pankaj Advani overcame Malaysia’s Thor Chuan Leong in a thriller (4-3) for his second win in Group ‘H’.

In the women’s draw, Amee Kamani, coming off a bronze medal effort at the Heyball World Championships four days ago, got down to

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