The team Poland 3 comprises of Kacper Filipiak and Mateusz Baranowski started their campaign in the World Team championships with a cracking win of 5-0 against team UAE 2 (Mohammed Alshamsi and Saif Alketbi).

Roman Larionov on his début appearance in IBSF World 6Reds Championship is getting all attention as being the youngest player of the championships.

Egyptian player Wael Talaat becomes the first player in the history of 6Reds snooker to score break of 83 points. The maximum possible in 6Reds is 75 but this is possible with the free ball after foul committed by the opponent and the same happened in this match as well.

Indian player Rafath Habib's 73 points clearance remained the high break of the day in 6Reds. He scored this break in fourth frame during his match against Alal Mimun Himad of Morocco. Though Rafath lost the match 4-3 but everybody had seen tough contest among the two to win the match.

The other big breaks during the day remained 69 & 66 by Darren Morgan (Wales), 67 each by Soheil Vahedi (Iran), Muhammad Asif (Pakistan) and Omar Alkojah (Syria) and 63 by Faisal Khan (India).

Mohamed Ibrahim of Egypt snatched his first 6Reds match making an upset of the day. He defeated former World No.4, Soheil Vahedi by winning the decider frame. Soheil Vahedi gave a brilliant start with a break of 67 points and had no major trouble in next two frames as well. Even in the fourth frame he had scored 32 points but it was the day for Mohamed Ibrahim who pulled that frame by scoring a break of 42 points.

The 2014 IBSF World Team & 6Reds Championships announced open after the grand opening ceremony that took place last night at the International Sports Development Centre here in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt.

The ceremony started with procession of all teams participating in the championships. After that the Chief Guest Mr. Khaled Fouda, Governor of South Sinai played the first shot of the championship and welcomed all players & delegates in Sharm-el-Sheikh. The President of African Billiards & Snooker Federation and General Secretary of IBSF, Mohammed El Kammah accompanied Governor for the opening shot.

On the occasion, the IBSF President, Mr. Jim Leacy congratulated the Egyptian Federation for their hard work put in to host these championships in Egypt. He hoped that everybody will enjoy, the championship and their stay, in Sharm-el-Sheikh and everyone will return home with happy memories. Later he announced the championship open for next 11 days. He

The opening ceremony ended with the glittering performance of professional dancing and musical group who presented Egyptian cultural programme. The opening ceremony was televised on NILESAT covering nearly 50 countries.

In a very exciting way, the Egyptian Federation has done the preparations to welcome all players and officials for the IBSF World Team & 6Reds championships starting here at Sharm-el-Sheikh.

The International Billiards & Snooker Federation is now introducing World Billirards Team Championship from 11th till 14th August 2014 at the Ball Room, Glasgow, UK. This is another joint production with the World Billiards Limited.

Each country is allowed to send 2 teams of 3 players each and the last date of sending entries is 20th July 2014

TOURNAMENT INFORMATIONS
Host city: Glasgow
Dates: From: 11th August 2014 till 14th August 2014

HOST ASSOCIATION CONTACTS
Organiser:     Jim Burke on behalf of World Billiards Ltd.
Contact details: Mobile phone:  00 44 777 343 2949
Email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ACCOMMODATION
Please check: World Billiards Accommodation.

Referees accommodation & daily food Allowance
Accommodation will be supplied on a twin share basis for all International Referees. Breakfast and one extra meal allowance to be offered to all International Invited Referees. No allowances will be payable to any other officials, delegates or players.

VENUE INFORMATION
Venue address:    the Ball Room, 31 Ledard Rd, Glasgow G42 9RA, UK

It will be held in the Ball Room, a great new games club in the south side of Glasgow, only 10 minutes from the city centre. The club has 10 tables in two segregated rooms Cloth: IBSF 6811 Tournament Select   Balls: Aramith    

Playing Format    

Please refer to the World Billiards website.

TRAVEL
Air
Glasgow Airport is a 15-min taxi to the city centre or the event location.
Prestwick Airport is a bit further – a 50-min train journey to the city centre.

Road
Coming from the south, the M74 serves the south of the city. From the east and south, the M8 comes into the centre of the city.

VISAS
Visas are required by many countries; please check with the British Embassy in your country.

Drug Testing:
Players may be subjected to Drug Testing in accordance with the WCBS Drugs in Sport Policy.

Currency  - Local currency is British Pounds.

Entry Fee
There an entry fee of £30 per 3-man team. Details on payment will be published on the World Billiards site.

Prizes
The winners and runners-up will receive medals.
 

The former World Champion Hossein Vafaei Ayouri from Iran has now added another feather in his cap by winning World Under-21 Snooker title today here in Fujairah, UAE. In the final he defeated Josh Boileau of Ireland 8-3 in best of fifteen frames final.

After lots of fluctuating performance during last 9 days, finally Jessica Woods from Australia succeeded to lift the 2nd IBSF World Under-21 (Women) snooker title here in Al-Fujairah, UAE.

In the final she defeated Amornrat Uamduang of Thailand in the decider frame 4-3. The entire match swung like pendulum and till the end either of them could be the champion. Infact during the last moments of play, Jessica had miscues on blue and it appeared Amornrat could be the new champion but she gave another chance, which Jessica successfully converted into pink pot to become champion.

Jessica started her campaign in this championship by winning three matches in group of five players and qualified as Group No.3. In knockouts she defeated back to back two Russian girls Anastasia Nechaeva and Daria Sirotina to enter in final where she proved her supremacy and won the title.

She spoke to IBSF Media to put her views after becoming champion.