Pakistan’s Bilal wins inaugural ACBS 10-Red championship

Cueist beats Irish opponent O'Donoghue 6-1 in final

KARACHI: Pakistan's Muhammad Bilal became the inaugural winner of the 1st Asian Confederation of Billiards and Snooker (ACBS) Asian Tour 10-Red in Doha on Saturday night as he defeated former professional player from Ireland, Brendan O'Donoghue, in the final.

Bilal, who has never played professional snooker before had a rather easy day on the table as he brought O'Donoghue down 6-1, taking the first frame 46-42 with a break of 46, only losing the second frame 36-48, but then finding the focus to bring down his Irish opponent in the best-of-11 frame final.

He walked past his opponent collecting the remaining frames 47-1 with a break of 46, 67-01 with a break of 42, 54-23, 55-0 with a break of 55 and 59-04 with his break of 42 to win the final.

Bilal also bagged $12,000 as the winner.



This was the first time the Asian Confederation of Billiards and Snooker (ACBS) have organised the tour which had the former professional players.

Pakistan had three players in the tour: Haris Tahir, Bilal and Babar Masih.

Bilal reached the final after defeating Hong Kong's Chrung Ka Wai 5-4 in the semi-final and O'Donoghue crushed India's Pankaj Advani 5-0 to make is way to the final.



Earlier Pakistani players showed brilliant performance in Doha at the Asian Team Championship, where Babar along with former IBSF World Championship Muhamamd Asif won the title with Bilal and Majid Ali taking bronze.

In the individual Asian 6-Red Championships, Bilal finished with a silver whereas Babar lost in the semi-finals but got a bronze and a place at the Asian tour.