KARACHI: Top two seeds — Abdul Raheem and Ali Zaman Khan — together with two internationals — Mohammad Faheem and Amir Tariq – were among eight who stormed into quarter-finals of the seventh national junior under-21 snooker championship at Movenpick Arcade on Thursday.

Top seed Abdul Raheem, who is also Punjab junior No 1, blanked Sindh’s Gawish Khan 4-0 (66-34, 69-33, 68-16, 57-15). Similarly, second seed and Sindh junior champion Ali Zaman Khan conceded second frame while registering an emphatic 4-1 victory over Sindh No 2 Fahad Khan. The scores were 57-55, 21-60, 74-55, 51-34, 62-35.

Faheem, who represented the country in the last year’s IBSF world under-21 snooker championship at Fujairah, removed Junaid Ali with ease 93-23, 101-40, 70-11, 77-66 while Amir, who featured in Asian under-21 event at Chundigarh last year, was home 62-39, 54-29, 78-32, 135-0 against Mohammad Bilal. He also piled up a break of 95 in the fourth frame surpassing the previous highest of 91 by Mohammad Afzaal on Wednesday.

Four other cueists who completed the quarter-final line up include Mohammad Hassan Anwar, Mohammad Adil, Mohammad Nouman and Mohammad Afzaal.

The best of seven frames quarter-finals will be played on Friday morning at 10am. This will be followed by semi-finals at 3pm.

Results:

Pre quarter-finals:

Abdul Raheem (Punjab) bt Gawish Khan (Sindh) 4-0 (66-34, 69-33, 68-16, 57-15);

Mohammad Hassan Anwar (Islamabad) bt Mohammad Ibrahim (Balochistan) 4-2 (46-41, 20-53, 56-31, 41-75, 64-28, 67-44); Mohammad Adil (Balochistan) bt Mohammad Saqib (Punjab) 4-3 (83-38, 52-71, 62-31, 56-39, 54-60, 54-62, 75-17); Mohammad Nouman Iqbal (Islamabad) bt Haris Tahir (Punjab) 4-2 (60-16, 63-48, 0-72, 55-59, 71-32, 61-41); Mohammad Afzaal

(Punjab) bt Tanveer Baluch (Sindh) 4-2 (48-59, 69-33, 95-6, 57-54, 19-68, 65-2); Mohammad Faheem (Punjab) bt Junaid Ali (Sindh) 4-0 (93-23, 101-40, 70-11, 77-66); Amir Tariq (Punjab) bt Mohammad Bilal (Sindh) 4-0 (62-39, 54-29, 78-32, 135-0); Ali Zaman Khan (Sindh) bt

Fahad Khan (Sindh) 4-1 (57-55, 21-60, 74-55, 51-34, 62-35).

Friday’s fixtures:

At 10am: Quarter-finals (best of seven frames)

Abdul Raheem (Punjab) v Mohammad Hassan Anwar (Islamabad); Mohammad Adil

(Balochistan) v Mohammad Nouman Iqbal (Islsmabad); Mohammad Afzaal (Punjab) v

Mohammad Faheem (Punjab); Amir Tariq (Punjab) v Ali Zaman Khan (Sindh).

At 3pm: Semi-finals (best of nine frames).—Anwar Zuberi

Published in Dawn, January 9th, 2015

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