Chaddha, who came into the match with great confidence after trouncing ace cueist Pankaj Advani, put up yet another fight against the title winner.

Chaddha went down fighting against Rawat 2-3 with scores of 96-0, 15-84, 63-59, 45-56 and 23-67.

Rawat, on the other hand, had a crucial break of 51 in the fifth frame, resulting in his win. In the second frame too, he garnered 52-point break to pocket it.

Before entering the final, Rawat had overwhelmed Brijesh Damani 3-1 and, Rupesh Shah 3-1 and Devendra Joshi 3-1, in league stages.

After defeating Advani, Chaddha trounced Manan Chandra 3-1, Brijesh Damani 3-1, Sparsh Pherwani 3-2 in an engrossing encounter

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