Brian Dix in his first game as a professional was never a match for the more experienced Indian.

The upset of the season. Shandilya won by over a hundred despite two big breaks from the World No.2.

Savur, better known as the, "Father of Indian Snooker," put up a reasonable performance against the ex world champion.

Caven did not reproduce the form he showed against Close in the 'World, "t Sheffield.

The Indian player put up a good fight against Dagley and was by no means disgraced.

A good result for Everton.

The World Champion was too good for Bhaskar but did not have a high average despite two centuries.

A surprise result, with Hughes playing well and Chapman unable to find his form.

Murphy is still not playing to his potential but was nevertheless too good for the Russian player.

Another low scoring match with the Leeds man a comfortable winner.

Bodle not quite good enough yet but is an excellent cueman and sure to improve. Patel not at his best.

Shandilya continued to play very well a fine double century being the highlight of his win over Rex Williams.

Neither player at his best.

A very low scoring match and close game.

Gilchrist began to find some form making two centuries against Joshi who himself scored quite well.

The Australian had a fine 188 but Hughes also had a good century and managed to win by just 19 points. The Irishman claimed to have played just about the best billiards of his life.

Murphy still unable to find any form.

A good performance from Nalin Patel who had a 192 in this win over Ferreira.

The World No.1 had a fine break of 193 but was well beaten by Subhash Agrawal who did not make a century but had a very good average.

Bob Close synchronised his watch with a little clock on the screen of an early TV programme. Bob did not know that the programme was a recorded repeat.

As a consequence, the Hartlepool's man was penalised 150 points for late arrival. Shandilya was not in the kind of form to be given 150 start! The Englishman had a 187 and a 98 unfinished in the second but it was not enough, and the Indian won by more than Close had conceded curiously.

Shandilya scored the same number of points in each session.

Gilchrist ran up a string of breaks including a 276 for a comfortable win against the ex world champion. Norman Dagley is still one of the most attractive players to watch but he cannot have been satisfied with this performance. For him to play three hours without a century is almost unthinkable.

An incredibly low scoring match. Considering his self-admitted billiards limitations, Hughes did very well and was unlucky to lose by a mere 4 points. In some ways it is a pity he did not win. A loss in this match might have given Williamson the impetus to stir himself and produce the billiards of which he is undoubtedly capable.

An evenly contested game until towards the end when Agrawal made the better use of his chances to win by about 150. Patel is an improving player. If he can add a spot-end dimension to his game then he will be a potential top eight man.

Shandilya had played exceptionally well to reach this stage and he put up some stout resistance, but, though Gilchrist was not at his best in this game - he did not make a single century - he was still just a little too good. Shandilya could be well pleased with his tournament.

The first session was pretty awful. The best break was 89 from Agrawal whilst Williamson averaged exactly 4. It is true that the table was causing some difficulties but such poor play is perhaps better explained by the Leeds man's negative attitude and unwillingness to take any risks - not to mention his painfully slow approach to virtually every shot. And yet, as this magazine has so often stressed, the man can actually play the game; when he is up against someone he thinks he can't beat (e.g. Russell in the World Championship) he plays reasonably fluent and attractive billiards. Agrawal is normally a quick player but he too seemed to get bogged down.

Both players started rather cautiously and both missed easy ball-to-ball cannons up the table. Gilchrist was the first to get into his stride and a number of smallish breaks gave him a lead of about one hundred after half-an-hour, and a lead of two hundred after an hour. Agrawal had shown little form but he suddenly came to life with a century and followed two visits later with a second century. The baulk line rule was his undoing in both of these breaks. Gilchrist's best replay in his last nine visits before the interval was a mere 58. Agrawal got into position at the top and though there were only two points difference on the board, the Indian was in play on 110 unfinished at the interval.

Agrawal took his break to 149 and followed with a fifty. The game seemed to be slipping away from the world champion until a scoring run of 121, 80, 31, 72, and 122, gave him a one hundred point lead with about a half-hour to play. A 76 and an 84 from the Indian brought him almost level. With little time left Gilchrist obtained position by means of a brilliant long pot but failed after playing an in-off the white so slowly that it only just crossed the baulk line leaving a thin middle pocket lose which he missed. At this point the Englishman was 67 points to the good with some ten minutes left. Gilchrist's missed stroke had left Agrawal an easy in-off to set up a drop cannon. This took him to the spot end where he ran up a pretty quick 97, leaving nothing, and then playing out time with 96 unfinished to win the title by 126 points. Agrawal thus became the first Indian to win a professional title in England and only the second overseas player to win the UK Professional Championship since its inception in 1934.