Polish cueist Mateusz Baranowski, who suffered a straight defeat yesterday, shown a scintillating performance today and posted two century breaks to win his match against Ang Boon Chin from Singapore.
Andres Pagett of Wales shown an outstanding performance posting two magnificent breaks of 74 and a mammoth 131 in last two frames to defeat Indian player Sundeep Gulati of India.
It’s the second day of competition and so far Amir Sarkhosh from Iran has already made five breaks in two matches he played. Yesterday he made three breaks but couldn’t reached the three digit, succeeded today and made 113 while playing against Marios Kleitou of Cyprus.
Former European Champion, Tatjana Vasiljeva of Latvia and multiple time World Champion, Ng On Yee of Hong Kong played their first group stage matches and both won respectively.
The defending champion Pankaj Advani was in good form and won his second consecutive match of group stage at World Snooker championship. Today he took on Maris Volajs of Latvia and crafted three breaks of 55, 63 and 74 points to win 4-nil.
Muhammad Asif of Pakistan cracks up with the splendid break of 138 points to set a new high break of the competition surpassing previous best of 125 which Chinese player Yuan Sijun made few minutes before.
Asif was playing against Hisham Nadi of Egypt and in second frame he took on from the first opportunity to go on and made a fabulous clearance of 138. Later he scored another break of 60 points to close the match proceedings 4-nil in his favour.
With this, the day one had seen total three century breaks. Apart from these two, Mohammed Rais Senzahi from Afghanistan had also crafted 103 points break in the morning session.
The local boy from Qatar, Ahmad Saif, was also in a good form and finished his match with a well-crafted break of 85 points against Alexis Callewaert of France. He won the match 4-nil.
However, Felix Frede from Germany was on the verge of losing his first match but he recovered well on time in 6th frame to change the fate of his match.
Felix started up well and pocketed the first frame but after that Belan Sharif of Sweden countered him smartly to take 2-1 lead. Though Felix won another frame to come at par but Belan was quick to reply and stay on lead.
The sixth frame was crucial where Belan could have won the match but Felix pulled up on black ball game to set a decider and in last frame he dominated to seal the match 4-3.
The youngest player of the competition Alexsandra Riabinina from Russia got her first international ladies snooker match against the multiple time world champion Wendy Jans of Belgium.
Amir Sarkhosh from Iran was on fire and scored three magnificent breaks to win his match 4-2 against Mongolian player Enkhjargal Enkhbaatar. Though Enkhjargal tried to curtail Sarkhosh and pulled out two frames but Sarkhosh had excellent break building technique as he scored 82, 81 and 91 points clearances to close the proceedings.
Hong Kong player Ka Kai Wan registered a sensational victory over her opponent Waratthanun Sukritthanes of Thailand. She was down two frames but shown the match winning temperament to convert that trail in magnificent win.
The first Officials, Referees and Players meeting held today evening at Hotel Holiday Villa where Tournament Director, Mohammed Salem Al-Nuaimi (the General Secretary of QBSF) was present.
The IBSF Vice President, Mr. Maxime Cassis also joined him along with IBSF Overseer, Mr. Michael Al-Khoury, Local Head Referee Mishlesh Al Khayarin, Assistant Tournament Director, Shoaib Alam Khan and the International Head Referee, Joseph Lo from Hong Kong.
The matches shall start tomorrow morning at 10 AM and there will be total four session every day.
As apprised earlier, the IBSF has made arrangements to air live streaming through our website for matches on Table No.1 to 4 and the live scoring is available for all the matches throughout the competition.
The IBSF is also active on Facebook page / group and the twitter handle @ibsf. Instant clicks during the competition will also be shared on Instagram and the same can also be seen at @ibsf.media.
IBSF once again extends best wishes to all the participants for the competition.
