KARACHI, Dec 8: Aneel Bherwani, Asim Ghani, Ahmed Saleem and Bharat Sitiani advanced to the semifinals of the Karachi Club Open Snooker Championship, after winning their matches in contrasting fashions at Karachi Club Snooker and Billiards Hall on Sunday night.

Aneel dropped the second frame before out-potting Farhan Idrees 4-2. Similarly Asim also lost two frames before cruising into the semifinal.

In the other quarterfinals, Ahmed Salim beat Baqar Kamani and Bharat Sitiani overpowered promising Qasam Kamani 4-2.

Earlier, in the pre-quarterfinals Ahmed Salim caused a major upset by ousting experienced Sanjay Parwani 3-2, which included a break of 54 in the last frame.

All the quarterfinalists qualified for Rs75,000 main round which starts from Wednesday.

Khurram Agha, Saleh Muhammad, Naveen Perwani, Muhammad Yousuf, Farhan Mirza, Atiq Latif Bakhsh, Imran Shahzad and Shakeel Bhatti will be taking part in the second phase.

If Saleh and Farhan are unable to report for the event Vishan Gir and Amit Parwani will be included in the event.

Following are the results. (Quarterfinals). Asim Ghani beat Farhan Idrees 4-2: 25-69, 95-59, 80-27, 28-75, 58-28, 74-23 Ahmed Salim beat Baqar Kamani 4-1: 64-28, 65-32, 45-40, 39-57, 68-07. Aneel Bherwani beat Faisal Adam 4-1: 44-35, 18-55, 69-05, 72-44, 49-16 Bharat Sitiani beat Qasam Kamani 4-2: 41-58, 69-46, 76-45, 61-51, 20-56, 51-50. (Pre-quarteterfinal) Baqar Kamani beat Hasan Fayyaz 3-0: 35-27, 60-47, 65-32. Qasam Kamani beat Naresh Kumar 3-1: 62-13, 58-16, 51-65, 61-48. Bharat Sitiani beat Uzaifa Mushtaq 3-0: 59-43, 69-07, 59-10. Ahmed Salim beat Sanjay Parwani 3-2: 46-34, 46-60, 42-67, 70-32, 74-29. Farhan Idrees beat Imran Razzak 3-1: 01-65, 59-40, 52-12, 68-29: Faisal Adam beat Fahad Iqbal 3-1: 48-42, 49-56, 75-16, 50-41. Aneel Bherwani beat Rajesh Lakwani 3-0: 56-30, 72-65, 57-03. Asim Ghani beat Asad Ali Baghat 3-1: 59-44, 56-61, 59-06, 57-37.—APP