Chennai Open Tenpin Bowling Championships

Mahipal Singh from Tamil Nadu won the title at The Chennai Diamonds 2nd Chennai Open Tenpin Bowling Championships which concluded at Let’s Bowl, Chennai. In the Open Division Finals, played based on challenge the Leader format, second seed Benigopal L won the first game against top seed MahipalSinghD (208-194) forcing the second game to decide the Winner. In the second GameMahipal started with 3 consecutive strikes scoring 200 against 168 by Benigopal, to emerge as the Champion. Earlier, in the 1st match of stepladder round, 3rd Seeded Anand Babu from Tamil Nadu defeated 4th seeded Naveen Siddam from Telangana (222–183). In the Semi final, BenigopalLahoti from West Bengal scored a comfortable win over Anand Babu ( 223 — 191 ). In the Doubles division, Parvez Ahmed and Kishan R (737 pins) from Karnataka won the Cliff hanger Finals against Gurunathan and Soban D from Tamil Nadu (735 pins) by a margin of 2 pins. In game 1 of title match played based on cumulative pinfall of two games, 4th seed Parvez and Kishan R (386) gained lead of 1 pin against 3rd seed Gurunathan and Soban (385). And in the second match, both teams fought hard to gain the lead and a strike from Kishan R in the final frame sealed the title win for the team from Karnataka (351-350). In Grade A Division, top 12 players bowled 8-games block in the masters round to decide the winner. At the end of 8 games, Gurunathan from Tamil Nadu finished on top with an impressive total pinfall of 1556 and an average of 194.50. Anand Babu, also from Tamil Nadu finished second with a total pinfall of 1544 and an average of 193.00. Sathish A V from Karnataka finished 3rd with total pinfall of 1485 pins. In Grade B Division, Mohit Chauhan from Maharashtra won the Masters round with a Total of pinfall of 1471 and an average of 183.88in 8 games. Kushal KS from Delhi scored total pinfall of 1429 (Avg 178.63) finish second in this division. Anand Kumar R from Uttar Pradesh finished third with a total of 1407 (Avg 175.88). This championship witnessed twelve days of high-voltage bowling action by around 95 bowlers from 10 states.