Asian champion Alok Kumar got back to winning ways with an impressive 4-0 victory over Rafal Gorechi of Poland in a Group B league match in the IBSF World Snooker Championships in Veldhoven, Holland on Friday.

Alok thrashed Gorechi 84-20, 69-46, 123-4, 68-31 in the best-of-seven frames match.

On Thursday, had gone down to Steve Mifsud of Australia [ Images ].

Defending champion Pankaj Advani [ Images ] again proved his class, beating Australia's Steve Ebejer in straight frames in Group F. The Indian dominated the proceedings all through against his tough opponent, winning 71-31, 61-50, 88-9 75-46.

Indian National champion Manan Chandra also won his Group C match against Ben Farnworth of New Zealand [ Images ] 4-3 after a tough battle that went to the wire. Manan won 85-37, 5-66, 77-49, 21-62, 99-0, 4-79, 109-0.

In Group E, Asian Games gold medallist Rafat Habib went down to Keith R Boon Aun of Singapore 66-44, 31-72, 59-65, 58-48, 65-37, 17-74, 47-60.

In the women's section, Anuja Thakur beat Juli of Singapore 66-17, 66-42, 50-71, 5-59, 15-67 in Group B while Meenal Thakur bowed to Johanna Ho of France [ Images ] 34-62, 46-48, 50-45, 64-37, 28-51 in Group C.

Revanna Umadevi lost to Caty Dehaene of Belgium 2-3 37-61, 93-9, 20-39, 68-57, 27-65 in Group D.

Among the Seniors, former world champion Geet Sethi trounced Benden Cooney of Ireland 94-7, 65-39, 78-9 while BVS Murthy went down to Michael Maguire of Scotland 0-86, 17-64, 53-34.