14-year-old Natasha Chethan, who started the precision game when she was just nine, has a Mysuru connection too
Natasha Chethan, who has her roots in Mysuru, has been selected to represent India at the World Snooker Championship to be held from Aug. 21 to 25 in Bucharest, Romania.
Aged 14, she is the youngest player of the contingent and will be representing India in the Women’s Under-21 Category.
Natasha has participated in the Karnataka State Ranking Tournament winning in both the Under-18 snooker and billiards categories and was the runner-up in the Under-21 snooker and billiards categories. At the National-level, she was runner-up in the Under-18 billiards category and finished No.4 in the Under-21 snooker category.
She had participated in the UK 9 Ball Pool Open held in May 2022 in London and in a Chinese Pool (hey ball) championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At Bucharest, she will be representing India for the first time. “It is a proud moment,” she told Star of Mysore.
Natasha is the official junior ambassador of ‘Sight Right’, a premier UK-based academy which has been training snooker champions like Mark Williams and Shaun Murphy for many years now. She is sponsored by Finland-based Taom, a prestigious pool and snooker equipment manufacturing company.
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