Former IBSF world champion Muhammad Asif also struck a century break in his 4-2 demolition of Kuwait’s Taqi Naseer. PHOTO: FILE
The Japanese cueist offered some resistance in the first two frames, but abruptly lost concentration in the next two, in which Shahram conceded just one point and accumulated over a 100 points twice. He won with a scoreline of 78-26, 57-38, 109(102)-1 and 121-0.
Former IBSF world champion Muhammad Asif also struck a century break in his 4-2 demolition of Kuwait’s Taqi Naseer.
Asif started off with a bang and hit a century break in the first frame. However, he lost the next two to go 2-1 down. But the veteran fought back and eventually won with overall scores of 147(119)-0, 22-62, 26-65, 91(75)-14, 84-7 and 88-15.
Youngster Hamza Akbar also won with a scoreline of 4-2 against Kuwait’s Alkandari Abdullah with scores of 88-24, 31-60, 60-48, 61-12, 30-79 and 42-41.
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