Snooker

LONDON (AFP) – Mark Allen overcame some heavy scoring from former world champion John Higgins to book his place in the quarter-finals of the Masters with a 6-4 victory over the Scotsman at London s Alexandra Palace on Wednesday. Higgins came close to matching the feat of Hong Kong s ...

KARACHI: Seventh seed Muhammad Faheem stunned top seed Abdul Raheem with a 6-4 win in the Jubilee Insurance National Junior U21 Snooker Championship final on Saturday to lift the winner’s trophy title at a local hotel in Karachi. The first frame set the tone for a close match as Faheem pipped ...

KARACHI: In a further demoralising move, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved just a mere Rs500,000 as the cash award for former IBSF World Champion Muhammad Asif, who has been running from pillar to post for his due prize money of over Rs15 million for more than two years now. During ...

KARACHI: Mohammad Sajjad, the losing finalist of world amateur snooker championship at Bangalore recently, maintained his ascendancy while brushing aside Rambel Gul 8-3 in the final to land the third ranking snooker cup at National Bank Sports Complex on Saturday. Sajjad, who is in the best nick, coasted to an ...

KARACHI: Matters continue to go from bad to worse for former IBSF World Champion Muhammad Asif, as he was knocked out by Rambail Gul in the quarter-finals of the Langnese Ranking Snooker Championship after a 5-1 defeat here at the NBP Sports Complex. The first three frames of the match ...

Ronnie O’Sullivan’s 147 tonight. The man is a machine! Before watching Gravity a few weeks ago, a film that finds George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as a pair of unlikely astronauts lost in space, I had an hour or so to kill. I asked my mate if he had managed ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s Mohammad Sajjad took 14-year-old Chinese sensation Yan Bingtao to full distance before going down fighting 8-7 in the final of (IBSF) World Snooker Championship in Bangalore on Saturday. After grueling 14th frame, the title match was locked at 7-all. However, Bingtao produced a decisive 60 points break to ...

KARACHI: Pakistan’s ace cueist Mohammad Sajjad entered the final of IBSF World Snooker Championship when he defeated Zhao Xin Tong of China in the semi final in Bangalore, India on Friday evening. Sajjad defeated Manan Chandra of India 6-1 before the home audience in the last eight round earlier in ...