Yousuf upbeat ahead of snooker event

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KARACHI: Former IBSF world amateur snooker champion and veteran cueist Mohammad Yousuf has said that Pakistan team comprised experience and youth and has plenty of potential to win more laurels in the Jubilee Insurance World 6-Reds and Team Championship which cues off at hotel Movenpick on Aug 6.

“I’ve won all the honours in the global events that used to take place in the past and together with former international Naveen Perwani, the pair has ability to scale heights,” he told Dawn on Tuesday.

The 63-year-old cueist, wrote history by becoming the first-ever Pakistani to annex world title at Johannesburg in 1994. He won the Asian title at home in 1998 before winning the world Masters at Jordan in 2006. He also secured a bronze in Asian Games team event at Busan in 2002.

Besides, he won the national title for an unprecedented 13 time during his illustrious career. He was among the top 16 of the national rankings for the last two years before going out of the circuit in 2015.

“Naveen is playing well and if I click, we can beat any pair on a given day,” he added.

Published in Dawn, August 5th, 2015

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