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Hind shows the impressive game of snooker on her first appearance

Hind Bennani from Morocco Hind Bennani from Morocco IBSF Media

Moroccan women player Hind Bennani displayed impressive game of snooker here in World Women Snooker 6Red Cup 2020. This is her first appearance in any IBSF event and she shown tremendous improvement within two days of competition.

Where she countered top players like Nutcharat Wongharuthai and Arantxa Sanchis before winning against 3-1 against Svetlana Kozyreva of Russia, today she caused a major upset by defeating multiple-time European champion Tatjana Vasiljeva of Latvia.

Yesterday, she pulled out two frames from Nutcharat before losing the deciding frame and later claimed one frame while playing against Arantxa Sanchis of India.

Today she dominated since the start of her match against Tatjana and won first two frames to put pressure on Latvian player. Though Tatjana pulled out the third frame but failed to curtail her in next and lost 1-3.

This win has opened a bright chance for Hind to qualify for the knockout stage as she has to play the deciding match against Izabela Lacka of Poland.

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