Sajjad wins Asian 6 Red Snooker Championship
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KARACHI: Muhammad Sajjad claimed a ACBS Asian 6 Red Snooker Championship as he degraded Hong Kong’s Lee Chun Wai 7-0 in Bishkek on Sunday, while Muhammad Bilal took a bronze award after carrying mislaid to Sajjad 6-3 in a semi-final.
The Pakistan fortuitous tender in a tournament, with 3 of a 4 players sent — Sajjad, Bilal, Babar Masih and Asjad Iqbal —reaching a quarter-finals.
Sajjad initial outplayed Bilal 35-33, 41-28, 61-0 with a mangle of 61, 53-17, 35-0, 0-49, 22-45, 13-58, 32-02 before defeating a untimely Wai in a final.
Wai came into a final on a behind of a tighten 6-5 semi-final win over Thailand’s Issara Kachaiwong though a final was an altogether opposite story as Sajjad dominated from start to finish.
Sajjad had knocked out all his Pakistani counterparts, carrying degraded Masih and Iqbal in a quarter-finals and round-of-16 respectively, and he serve highlighted because many cruise him one of a excellent pledge snooker players around with a winning win in a final.
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The inhabitant champion had pronounced he would pull impulse of a cricket team’s ICC Champions Trophy win, and he returned only as jubilant as a cricketers.
This is a second time a Pakistani has won a Asian 6 Red Snooker Championship particular title, with Muhammad Asif carrying finished so in 2013 during a initial event.
The Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Association central Naveed Kapadia suggested Sajjad is understandably unapproachable of his feat.
“This is a best outcome we could have hoped for and Sajjad is over a moon right now,” Kapadia told The Express Tribune. “He was only observant that a draws were wily as all a 4 players had to go by any other, that meant an all-Pakistan was not possible. This is a good opening by us. This has been a good year for snooker; we got a bronze in a Asian youth championship, a bronze in a Asian Snooker Championship by Bilal and now these dual medals.”
Pakistan will now contest in a group event, holding on Saudi Arabia in a opening diversion on Monday and Kapadia is assured for that one too.
“We have a good possibility of winning a group eventuality as well,” he said. “The spirit of a players is really high right now and they are in good form, so we are anticipating for a best.”
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