Doubles handicap snooker begins

Published April 2, 2008

KARACHI, April 1: The week-long Karachi Club doubles handicap snooker tournament commenced Monday evening for members sans national ranking players.

The first three round matches will be of best of three frames while quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final will be of best of five. The tournament concludes on April 6.

Results:

Naeem Idrees/Abu Turab w/o Zubair Razzak/Daniyal Zubair; Umair Yousuf/Mano Wadhwani w/o Ravi Pervani/Sanjay Perwani; Usman Saleem/M. Zeeshan bt Kashif Bashir/Umair Idrees 2-0 (74-53, 68-49); M. Arsalan/Danish Bayani bt Abbas Ali/Aamir Anis 2-0 (97-48, 69-58); Adil Ismail/Ali Moti bt Abdul Ghaffar/M. Hussain 2-0 (77-42, 73-39); Mukarram Arif/Hasnain Shabbir bt Mobeen Merchant/Sufyan Merchant 2-0 (71-41, 63-47); Sajid Vali/ Shehroz Silat bt Hameed Khatri/Salman Haroon 2-0 (70-47, 89-33); Uzair Dawood/Afzal Lakhan w/o Abus Salam/Irfan Suleman; M. Ali Chandna/Arif Jameel bt Siddiq Ashraf/Vijay Wadwani 2-0 (53-35, 84-67); Sanjay Shivani/Ovais Mianoor bt Fahad Ali/Amin Ali 2-0 (84-37, 69-36); Farhan Majeed/Yasir Yaqoob bt Muzammil Rafiq/Adnan Khan 2-0 (67-41, 53-43).

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