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Vivek Pathak - Media Officer, IBSF
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Indian player Pankaj Advani has conquered back-to-back two major International championships. Last Thursday he won the Asian Snooker Championship and just after five days he stayed unbeaten in the Qatar 6Reds World Cup 2021 and lifted the coveted trophy with the winners' prize of 12000 USD.
Today he played the final against Pakistan player and 2017 World Team Snooker Champion Babar Masih, where Pankaj started on a winning note but after losing the second frame he raised the lead 3-1 with a break of 32 points.
Babar recovered with a break of 53 points in the fifth frame but again faced stiff competition when Pankaj won the next three frames in a row.
That was a do-or-die situation for Babar and he put in all his experience to secure frames after frame and succeeded in pocketing the next three frames scoring 43-00, 46-12 and 59-15.
The score was 6-5 in favour of Pankaj and Babar was placing good safety, but when Pankaj got a chance for long red pot, he succeeded to accumulate few red-black combinations to score a break of 32 points. Although Pankaj committed a foul on the last red, no major damage and he sealed the frame in the next visit to win the title.
The presentation ceremony was graced by the IBSF President, Mubarak Al-Khayarin, QBSF President Mohammed Mubarak Al-Ramzani, IBSF Secretary Michael Alkhoury, IBSF Executive Alamgir Shaikh, officials from QBSF and the representatives from the Sponsors Ooredoo and Al-Maha.
Pankaj Advani from India who won the Asian Snooker title on the previous Thursday here in Doha has now reached the final of Qatar 6Reds World Cup 2021. In the final, he will take on Pakistan Player Babar Masih for the coveted title.
Pankaj once again repeated his victory by defeating Iranian player Amir Sarkhosh, whom he defeated last Thursday to claim the Asian Snooker title.
Today in the semi-final match, Pankaj obtained a lead of 3-1 with a well-crafted break of 62 points. Although Amir claimed another frame but Pankaj responded once again with a break of 45 points to maintain the lead. In fact, he enhanced that lead by winning the seventh frame too.
Amir attempted a strong recovery and made two small breaks of 30 and 35 points in the eighth frame and tried the best possible safety with decent potting but towards the end on colour balls, he lost control and Pankaj smartly potted the rest of the balls to secure his berth for final.
In the final, he will now take on Babar Masih of Pakistan, who knocked out debutant Richard Wienold of Germany 6-4.
Babar Masih of Pakistan
Babar was enjoying a 3-0 lead when Richard claimed two frames to get close but Babar sent a break of 51 points followed by victory in the next frame to maintain the lead.
After one frame win with 40 points breaks by Richard, Babar responded with a 35 points break in next to seal the match 6-4.
The Final will be played today at 3:00 PM
Indian player and 23 time World champion Pankaj Advani has defeated his compatriot Ishpreet Singh Chadha to reach the medals round of the Qatar 6Reds World Cup 2021. He will now take on Amir Sarkhosh of Iran, who knocked out Cheung Ka Wai of Hong Kong 6-3.
Initially, Pankaj obtained three frames lead with a well-compiled break of 54. However, Ishpreet managed to secure one frame but Pankaj was completely focused and responded with the next two frames win with a break of 38 points.
Ishpreet tried another recovery with a break of 70 points clearance but couldn't save the match since Pankaj sealed the eighth frame with a score of 32-19 and the match 6-2.
The Iranian player Amir Sarkhosh started well against Cheung Ka Wai and obtained a 2-0 lead with 60 points break in the second frame. But Cheung returned to the game with breaks of 37 & 42 and brought the match to the level again.
Amir Sarkhosh of Iran
Amir replied for all the efforts of Cheung with a return break of 69 points and won the next frame too to maintain the lead of 4-2.
Although Cheung won the next frame Amir once again returned with 40 points break in the eighth frame and continued his winning streak in the next frame too to win the match 6-3.
Pakistan player Babar Masih knocked out his compatriot Haris Tahir in a one-sided affair 6-0 in the quarter-final match and confirmed his entry into the medals round of the Qatar 6Reds World Cup.
Haris appeared to be under pressure of playing against his senior from his country and failed to score on the opportunities he got. In most of the frames, he was out of reach and seeking to apply snooker, which he failed whereas Babar constantly dominated in all the frames with the breaks of 34, 38 and 32 to reach a scoreline of 6-0.
In the semi-final match, Babar will now take on the player from Germany, Richard Wienold who knocked out Ali Alobaidli of Qatar after a thrilling score of 6-4.
Richard dominated initially and won the first four frames with breaks of 37 and 32 in the first and third frames. After that Ali Alobaidli made a remarkable recovery in the match with two consecutive breaks of 31 and 47.
Richard Wienold of Germany
After losing the seventh frame Ali once again returned to the game by winning the next two frames and the score was 4-5.
Ali had a good chance to set a decider as he managed to take lead in the 10th frame but Richard got an opportunity that he converted into a score of 31 points and won the match 6-4.
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