Hossein Vafaei started his campaign with massive 139

Hossein was in great form and opened his account with a break of 64 in first frame. He did  not stop there and converted the fluke red pot into massive 139 points clearance in the next frame only. His break includes 10 black and 3 pink to summarize the highest of the championship so far.

Overall it was good start for Iranian players as in the same session Siyavosh Mozayani also registered 4-1 win against Abdelrahman Abdelnabi of Libya. The second frame was close and went in favour of Abdelnabi but all other frames had easy win for Siyavosh.

Kurt Brown of Australia and Saad Sarukah of Iraq also won their respective matches without having much turbulances.