Title-holder Asjad wins on day of upsets

Asif, Akbar, Shehzad crash out of national snooker event.

KARACHI:

Defending champion Asjad Iqbal continued his winning form at the 6th NBP Ranking Snooker Championship 2014 as he defeated Farhan Noor 4-2 in a Group C match on Friday.

However, the day saw four major upsets; including former IBSF world champion Muhammad Asif’s 4-1 loss to Zulfiqar Qadir in Group G and Yasir Shehzad of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) registered a 4-1 victory over Pakistan’s U21 champion Hamza Akbar in Group B. Punjab’s Muhammad Yousuf stunned Sindh’s Sohail Shehzad 4-3 in a close Group D match, while Babar Masih outplayed former national champion Imran Shehzad 4-1.

In other matches, Muhammad Asif Toba defeated Khizar Aziz, Khurram Agha outclassed K-P’s Aakash Rafique and Abdul Sattar defeated Sharjeel Mehmood, all with a scoreline of 4-1.

And Rambail Gul defeated Islamabad’s Sharam Changezi 4-2 in Group E.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 13^th, 2014.

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