KARACHI, April 4: The pair of Azeem Yousuf/Ahad Ali Khan made an exit going down to Asadullah/Tariq Ashraf in a three-frame pre quarter-final of the KC doubles handicap snooker tournament at the Karachi Club premises on Thursday. The winners, who cruised into the quarter-finals, were home 83-47, 50-60, 83-70.

Results:

Mazhar Soni/Munir Columbo bt Aamir Habib/Ali Majeed 2-1 (51-81, 64-59, 62-32); Sajid Vali/Shehroz Silat bt Abdul Ghaffar/Mustafa Khalique 2-1 (63-54, 60-65, 71-37); M. Ali Chandan/Arif Jameel bt Nisar Ali/Anjum 2-0 (70-25, 67-37); Farhan Majeed/Yasir Yaqoob bt Asad Kamani/ Zahid Duri 2-1 (22-68, 51-44, 54-45); Abdul Wahid Shaikh/Rasheed Suleman bt Usman Saleem/Mohammad Zeeshan 2-0 (80-43, 73-49); Asim Ghani/Dileep Perwani bt Zeeshan Shaikh/Bilal Godil 2-0 (61-54, 68-54); Rizwan Jumbo/Kamran Suriya bt Huzaifa Mushtaq/ Ali Abbas Murtaza 2-1 (48-52, 60-27, 63-33); Asadullah Kogatia/Tariq Ashraf bt Azeem Yousuf/Ahad Ali Khan 2-1 (83-47, 50-60, 83-70).

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