Babar wins snooker tournament
ISLAMABAD: Babar Masih, former IBSF World Team Event champion, clinched The Potters Open Snooker Championship 2018 title by defeating Shafi Khan alias Red & White by 4-2 frames in a well-contested final here at The Potters Snooker Academy Wednesday night, says a press release.
More than 60 prominent players from the twin cities participated in the 10-day championship. Former Asian champion and Pakistan’s only professional player Hamza Akbar also took part in the event and won Rs5,000 for being the semi-finalist and Rs5,000 for performing the highest break of 115 in the first frame of his very first match.
Cash awards worth Rs60,000 were distributed amongst the winners.
Islamabad Billiards & Snooker Association secretary general Muhammad Faheem Anwar was the chief guest who gave away cash awards to the winners.
Babar was awarded Rs30,000, runner-up Shafi bagged Rs15,000 while Muhammad Saleem got Rs5,000 for being the semi-finalist.
Speaking on the occasion, Faheem appreciated the standard of snooker of Rawalpindi-Islamabad players and efforts of The Potters Snooker Academy and its CEO Khurram Khan for inculcating latest techniques amongst the cueists of the twin cities.
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