"I love playing long pots and played them well today. I'm glad my opponents did not trouble me much with close balls, which happens to be my weakness," said an elated Renthlei after his wins.
Top guns Geet Sethi and Pankaj Advani, meanwhile, registered wins in their respective men's league matches. While Advani defeated Vishal Madan 3-1 (46-100, 101-68, 102-0, 100-0) in group A, Sethi outplayed local boy D Bhuvaneshwaran (101-27, 103-0, 102-2) in a group C encounter.
Tamil Nadu's Prem Prakash blanked Jai Shankar Shaw of Jharkhand 3-0 (100-32,101-38, 101-28) in a group A match.
Results: Junior boys snooker semifinal league: M.L.Lakshman (Kar) beat Mundir Sherazi (Kar) 3-2 (40-66, 77-15, 59-10, 58-61, 59-65). Lalrina Renthle (Miz) beat Mundir Sherazi(Kar) , 3-1 (39-59, 65-57, 58-17, 65-46). Himanshu Jain(AP) beat M.L.Lakshman(Kar) 3-0 (69-15, 49-45, 87-6). Lalrina Renthle(Miz) beat Himanshu Jain(AP), 3-1 (71-17, 18-65, 75-36, 73-19). Himanshu Jain(AP) beat Mundir Sherazi(Kar) 3-2 (51-42, 41-67, 58-67, 71-44,76-16). M.L.Lakshman (Kar) beat Lalrina Renthlei (Miz), 3-2 (18-85, 74-47, 28-84, 66-44, 68-41). Men's billiards league: Group A: I.V.Rajiv(AP) bt M.S.Reddy(Rlys) 3-2 (53-101,101-73,102-19,102-37). Premprakash (TN) bt Jai Shankar Shaw (Jhar) , 3-0 (100-32,101-38, 101-28). Pankaj Advani (PSPB) bt Vishal Madan (Mah) 3-1 (46-100,101-68,102-0,100-0) Group B: Simhachallam (Rlys) bt Anshul Mittal (Har) 3-0 (101-34,103-43,101-28) Shanker Rao(AP) bt Alok Kumar (PSPB) 3-1(101-83,39-101-18,100-81) Nitin Kohli (UP) bt Utsav Ramani(Guj), 3-1 (84-0, 102-32, 101-21,100-53) Group C: Ketan Chawla(MP) bt Rajkumar(Kar), 3-1(103-97,56-100,103-93,100-67). Siddarth Pariekh(Rlys) bt Sankeet Saurabh (Bih), 3-0 (102-28,101-86,101-90). Geet Sethi (Guj) bt D.Bhuvaneshwaran(TN), 101-27,103-0,102-2). Group D: Dhruv Sitwala(PSPB) bt Akram Khan(WB), 3-1 (100-2,102-67,67-101,100-52), Arif Akthar(Ch) bt Abineet Sharma(MP), 3-0(102-35,102-83,101-11), Arun Agarwal (Mah) beat Subrat Das(WB), 3-0(102-4,101-88, 100-62) Group E: Shivam Arora(Bih) beat Kankan Shamsi (UP), 3-2 (13-101, 101-78,55-100,101-40,101-81), Saurav Kothari (PSPB) bt Abhishek Saini (Har), 3-0 (100-15,102-16,101-0), Rupesh Shah (PSPB) bt Aditya Agarwal (Rlys) (100-58,102-87,100-0); Group F: Shakeel Ahmed (WB) beat S.A.Saleem (TN) 3-0 (100-56,100-25,101-89); Mahesh Jagdule(Mah) beat Kunal Manchanda(Raj), 3-0 (100-21,101-11,100-44) S.A.Saleem (TN) bt Amit Sharma (100-30,101-73,100-96); Group G: Bhaskar (Kar) walk over against Jayanth Menghani (Raj); Manudev I.H (Kar) bt M.C.Manoj (TN), 3-2 (100-19, 101-44,96-100,74-104,101-84); Group H: Shyam Jagtiani (WB) beat Amit Lath (Ori), 3-0 (100-47,101-14,102-28); Durga Prasad (Rlys) bt Manish Jain(WB) 3-0 (100-54,101-78,101-90) Devendra Joshi (PSPB) bt Dhuvaj Haria (Guj), 3-1 (100-44,101-8,64-101,102-19).