NEW DELHI, December 29: Farah Khan (Karnataka) and Heena Khandelwal (Maharashtra) will defend their billiards and snooker titles, respectively, in the seventh Women's National Championship starting at IIT, Hauz Khas here from January 2.In all, 24 players will be seen in action in billiards to be played from January 2 to 4 and 28 players will fight it out in snooker competition slated from January 5 to 8.
The opening match in billiards championship will be between Ashwani Puranik (M.P) and Cynthia Mukherjee (Bengal).
The groupings: (Billiards):
Group A: Farah Khan, Sharda Kasliwal (MP), Chitra (Kar).
Group B: Amrita Mohapatra (Ori), Ashwani Puranik, Cynthia Mukherjee.
Group C: Uma Devi (Kar), Neelam Mittal (MP), Varsha Mazumdar (Mah).
Group D: Meenal Bairagi (Mah), Juditha Walia (Kar), Sadhana Patel (Kar).
Group E: Kamala C.Babu (TN), Neeta Sanghvi (Mah), Bhanumati Mendon (Kar).
Group F: Jagruti Patel (Mah), Reena Prakash (Kar), Renu Bharkatiya (MP).
Group G: Pooja Galundia (Raj), Anuja Thakur (Mah), Jyothi Kale (Kar).
Group H: Heena Khandelwal (Mah), T.V.Sridevi (Kar), Soumini Srinivas(TN).
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