Sajjad crashes out of Snooker Championship

Top two seeds miss out on semi-finals after defeats in their last matches.


Express October 02, 2010
Sajjad crashes out of Snooker Championship

Defending champion Mohammad Sajjad crashed out of the Snooker Championship underway at the Karachi Club, losing 4-3 to Mohammad Asif Toba, who advanced to the semi-finals taking place today.

Sajjad lost the first three frames 75-62, 61-50, 68-39 but made a stunning recovery, winning the next three frames 87-0, 87-0, 76-0 with breaks of 70 and 60 to draw level in the match. However, Toba held off Sajjad's challenge to win the deciding frame 66-46 and book a meeting with Sohail Shehzad in the last-four.

Top-seed Asjad Iqbal, who had already crashed out of the running for the last-four, lost his final match of the tournament 4-2 to Shehzad. Iqbal, who rarely looked the player his ranking suggests, lost 77-28, 88-24, 50-75, 64-62, 69-78, 59-31.

Shahram Changezi cruised into the semis as he stunned Qasim Kamani 4-0 with a break of 105 in the second frame and will face Imran Shehzad in the other semi-final.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 2nd, 2010.

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