KARACHI, Jan 23: Farhan Noor, a promising youngster from Lahore caused the first upset on the opening day in the Red & White Nationals pre-qualifiers, when he toppled the Sindh National Champion Mohammad Akhlas 3-1, at the Indus Snooker Club.

Chalking up a break of 51 in the opening frame, Farhan went ahead only to see Akhlas bounce back with 39 points on his second visit to the table to level the scores 1-1. Farhan pocketed the third frame 49/10 to take over the lead again and emerged a 3-1 winner, when he fired in a break of 46 in the final frame.

This victory enabled the Lahore youngster to perch himself on top in his Pool. Earlier in the opening match of the day, he accounted for another promising youngster Aamir Sikander 3-2. Aamir potting to perfection snatched the opening two frames and seemed on course for a comfortable victory. However, Farhan fighting back tooth and nail clawed his way out of the jaws of defeat to emerge a 3-2 winner.

Farhan Idrees after a fine performance in the Sindh Cup qualifiers continued on his winning ways, by sounding a 3-0 defeat to Kashif Zubair which included a fine break of 53 in the opening frame.

Following are the results:

Farhan Noor (Punjab) bt Aamir Sikander 33/80, 57/67, 65/50, 74/23, 51/46. Manzoor Ahmed (Balochistan) bt Zahid Mahmood (Punjab) 14/68, 41/4, 31/60, 49/30, 59/45. Vishan Gir (Sindh) bt Imran Yousuf (Sindh) 73/24, 64/39, 48/35. Yousuf Haroon (Sindh) bt Mohammad Jamil (NWFP) 49/29, 46/56, 63/29, 66/1. Hassan Shuja (Punjab) bt Khawja Rizwan (Punjab) 60/62, 36/56, 48/35, 65/29, 61/29. Mohammad Siddiq (Balochistan) bt Aamir Samdani (Sindh) 49/52, 75/42, 36/62, 55/49, 68/34. Faisal Essa (Sindh) bt Tahir Rasheed (Punjab) 93/8, 7/71, 62/12, 72/22. M. Shadab Baig (Sindh) bt Rehmatullah (NWFP) 54/31, 84/29, 33/82, 38/61, 71/5. Noman Shah (NWFP) bt Amanullah (Balochistan) 53/52, 56/14, 29/57, 78/48. Irfan R. Khan (Sindh) bt M. Alam (NWFP) 47/39, 58/28, 68/38. Raja Rasheed (Punjab) bt Ishtiaq Hussain (Balochistan) 44/68, 4/53, 74/28, 80/9, 83/27. Farhan Nasar (Punjab) bt Danish Haroon (Sindh) 77/26, 88/18, 14/116, 25/54, 64/35. Atif Ayub (Sindh) bt Mehmood Khan (Balochistan) 72/32, 79/9, 68/57. Qaisar Khan (NWFP) bt Shoaib Qadir (Sindh) 38/29, 41/40, 66/10. Mohammad Nazir (Punjab) bt Abdul Rehman (Balochistan) 75/4, 92/7, 66/16. Farhan Idrees (Sindh) bt Kashif Zubair (Sindh) 71/36, 59/44, 62/48. Farhan Noor (Punjab) beat Mohammad Akhlas (Sindh) 80/44, 40/69, 40/10, 73/5. Fahid Asif (Punjab) bt Manzoor Ahmed (Balochistan) 57/59, 43/52, 58/50, 56/37, 73/39. Imran Yousuf (Sindh) bt Asad Azim (Sindh) 55/56, 52/50, 28/71, 64/35, 87/8. Mustafa Hyder (Balochistan) bt Mohammad Jamil (NWFP) 62/17, 70/66, 59/43, 63/1. Ahmer Sheikh (Sindh) bt Khawja Rizwan (Punjab) 80/0, 40/62, 51.52, 60/18, 56/16. A. Qadeer Butt (Punjab) bt Mohammad Siddiq (Balochistan) 45/67, 77/11, 39/49, 82/36, 74/22. Faisal Essa (Sindh) bt Arshad Siddiq (NWFP) 3-1: 58/40, 52/31, 12/57, 73/37. Kamran Shah (Balochistan) bt Rehmatullah (NWFP) 49/48, 51/37, 65/29. Kashif Sindh) bt Mohammad Moin (Punjab) 13/74, 71/24, 52/34, 70/20. Inam-ur-Rehman (NWFP) bt Naeem Khan (Balochistan) 54/17, 51/38, 69/67. Salman (Sheikh) (Sindh) bt Asim Ghani (Sindh) 84/27,38/58, 68/16, 85/3. Abu Saim (Punjab) bt Shahzad Amjad (NWFP) 71/27, 72/22, 77/11. Shah Khan (NWFP) bt Humayun Khurshid (NWFP) 76/45, 64/23, 104/1. Rambel Gul (Punjab) bt M.Hussain (Balochistan) 57/40, 63/11, 65/17. Atif Mughal (Punjab) bt Asghar Khan (NWFP) 3-0: 53/44, 74/45, 61/37. Wajad Khan (NWFP) bt Mohammad Ali Ghangezi (Balochistan) 46/12, 56/46, 71/48. Aneel Bherwani (Sindh) bt Yasir Aziz (NWFP) 42/34, 70/44, 55/33. Raja Amir Suhail (Punjab) bt Turali (Balochistan) 55/9, 34/77, 49/42, 42/70, 79/14. Mohammad Amin (Sindh) bt Raees Khan (Punjab) 58/31, 62/42, 67/36. Sunny Shahani (Sindh) bt Baber Qayyum (Sindh) 75/8, 39/55, 61/48, 66/22.