Manan Chandra (born 28 February 1981 in
New Delhi
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)
is an Indian amateur
snooker
Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...
and pool
player.
Chandra reached the semi-final at the
2006 IBSF World Championships
The 2006 IBSF World Snooker Championship was an amateur snooker event, sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation, held at the Amman Olympics Sports Centre in Amman, Jordan from November 5-November 15, 2006.
Results
Men
A ...
in
Amman
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,
Jordan
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,
where he was eliminated by
Daniel Ward 8–7. Chandra is married to
Anuja Thakur
Anuja Chandra-Thakur (born 1983) is an Indian amateur player of snooker and English billiards.
She won the WLBSA Ladies World Billiards Championship title in April 2005, in a 243–136 victory over Lynette Horsburgh of Scotland, and reached th ...
, who is also a successful Indian amateur snookers and billiards player.
Partnering with
Pankaj Advani, Manan Chandra won the
IBSG Snooker Team World Cup in 2018 when they defeated the Pakistan2 team of Muhammad Asif and Babar Masih 3–2.
References
External links
* http://www.cuesportsindia.com/myweb/profile/manan.htm
Living people
1981 births
Indian snooker players
Cue sports players at the 2010 Asian Games
Cue sports players at the 2006 Asian Games
Cue sports players at the 2002 Asian Games
Cue sports players from Delhi
Asian Games competitors for India
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