Mumbai: Eight-time world champion Pankaj Advani and Aditya Mehta will spearhead the Indian challenge in the RKG-Khar Gymkhana Snooker Masters 2013, India's biggest Pro-Am Snooker tournament, from May 12 to 18 here.
The prize money is the biggest offered in India with the winner's purse being Rs 500,000 lakh. World No.21 Stephen Lee from England will be the star attraction while also in the fray are World No.31 Michael Holt and No.46 Nigel Bond, a former British Open winner and losing finalist to Stephen Hendry in the 1995 world championships, the organisers announced here today.
Other top contenders at the week-long event, to be held at Gymkhana premises, are Mohammed Joker of UAE, national champion Manan Chandra and two-time Asian champion Yasin Merchant, who is also a member of the Organising Committee.
"This is definitely the biggest prize money event in snooker in the country in which I am taking part as an Organising Committee member. There are some top professionals from England but they will face good competition from the Indian players," said Merchant....
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