Aditya Mehta Wins India's First Ever Gold At The World Games

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Aditya Mehta won India's first ever gold medal at The World Games with a fluent 3-0 win over Liang Wenbo of China.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Cabin, Verdana, Helvetica][size=3][background=rgb(158, 211, 242)]
[img]http://www.drinksbreak.com/images/stories/cuesports/aditya_mehta_117.jpg[/img]Aditya has been in superb form throughout the tournament, knocking out World no.19 Joe Perry in the quarterfinal before ousting Dechawat Poomjaeng of Thailand in the semifinal. Aditya has been scoring heavily and today was no exception with the highlight being the 117 in the third and final fame to take the gold medal.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Cabin, Verdana, Helvetica][size=3][background=rgb(158, 211, 242)]
Liang Wenbo, is a quarterfinalist at 2007/8 World Championship and has won gold at the recently concluded Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games where Aditya won a bronze in the individual event. The Chinese started as the favourite for the final but Aditya was not to be denied.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Cabin, Verdana, Helvetica][size=3][background=rgb(158, 211, 242)]
Aditya, took every opportunity that fell his way in the final and the Chinese cueist could only stand as admire as Aditya kept racking up the breaks.[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Cabin, Verdana, Helvetica][size=3][background=rgb(158, 211, 242)]
With this gold medal, Aditya Mehta ended India's 32 year old wait for a gold medal at The World Games. India's only previous medal at these quadrennial games is a bronze in Badminton won by the legendary Prakash Padukone in 1981 (San Jose).[/background][/size][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Cabin, Verdana, Helvetica][size=3][background=rgb(158, 211, 242)]
Aditya Mehta's mom Sheela Mehta was beaming with pride at her son's achievements, "Nothing feels greater than the achievements of your sons and daughters. Hope what he has done makes India proud and the world stands up and take notice of my son." And an equally elated dad, Snehal Mehta chimed in "This is quite incredible. We are really happy for Aditya, for his support team and for the BFSI. There is nothing like making India proud. Hope this brings more attention to the sport."[/background][/size][/font][/color]

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