Asif claims IBSF World Snooker Championship title
Mohammad Asif. -File photo
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Mohammad Asif defeated England’s Gary Wilson in the final to win the IBSF World Snooker Championship on Sunday in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Asif, who was unbeaten in the tournament, defeated Wilson 10-8.
In a best of nineteen frames match, Asif was leading through most of the final and was 6-3 up at the break. Pakistan’s number one cueist started off well reaching 3-1 but later made mistakes which Wilson took advantage of to win the the fifth and the sixth frames to level the scores at 3-3.
Wilson made a comeback after the break, levelling the scores at 8-8. At this point in the match, Asif demonstrated brilliant cue control to win the seventeenth and eighteenth frame to clinch the title.
President of the Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Association, Alamgir Sheikh, termed the victory a turning point for snooker in Pakistan.
“Asif worked very hard to win this and it is a very big victory, a turning point for the sport in Pakistan. I hope the government takes notice and supports these boys,” Sheikh said while speaking to Dawn.com.
Asif was the third Pakistani to reach the final of the world event and the second one to win it. Before him, Mohammad Yousuf won it in 1994 while, in 2003, Saleh Mohammad was defeated by Pankaj Advani of India.
As proud as I am with his victory. The narrative of the report is misleading due to the fact that it was an Amateur event and not World Championsh Snooker (which btw Rony Won).
Thank God that the nation is actually concentrating on sports other than cricket
Well done Asif & Congratulations to Pakistan.
MashaAllah Mohammad Asif u have given nation a moment to proud of.. indeed it was your hardworking and fantastic talent. May Allah Bless u success and bestow others Pakistani’s the abilities and skills to streer the vessel of Nation to greener pasture and glory.
Pakistani and Proud Again!
Proud of you mate. Congrats and well done
this is what a Pakistani a can do if supported
HE was not supported by any pakistani sports body
God bless you champ for bringing pride to our country.
Well done! Nest Target is to get into the Professional Snooker!
For all the Businesses out there….please come forward and sponsor these guys…..
Pakistan Zindabad, now we are world champion in any sort of sports.
What a wonderful news. Mohammad Asif, you are the torch bearer for a fresh and successful era of Pakistan. May we as a nation bring back the glory of our beloved country, Inshallah. Allah (swt) is great.
well done. there are many mohammad asifs in pakistan who will bring fame not shame to pakistans name. once again congrats and may allah bless you.
rashid.
Superb performance…its high time the government give some attention to this sport and its promotion in the country…Congratulations Asif!!!
Congrats Asif and to his family.
Con grates to Pakistan and Muhammad Asif, he really did amazing job n made Pakistanis to proud on him and real curse on the Pakistan Sports Board and Govt of Pakistan for ot supporting such a talent………………..
One good news after so many bad news. It is time to celebrate this victory for a man which comes from a country where there are very few good news.
Pakistanis are very talented in all fields but unfortunately we are lacking in leadership otherwise we would have ruled the world
Why is the need to rule anybody, let alone the world?
Would you like to be ruled? If not, then why do you assume anybody would accept you ruling them?
It’s figurative speech my man. It does not mean making all the worlf your slave. It means winning and being on top of the world in specific field or fields
Probably we should start by ruling Pakistan well. Let the world take care of itself.
In the first place I want to congratulate Asif for the victory.
Well done!
Where are all our Valued Indian readers. No comment from them.
They are only interested in bashing Pakistan, nothing else. So you won’t see them here.
We Indian would let you have your moment of glory in winning the “amateur” snooker championship…a few Indians have won this trophy too but it is ‘amateur’ and not ‘professional’.
Indians have nothing against your sports/art/science personalities .it is your dirty terror games that annoys us.
Well done asif you can go long way . Our media though is funny when it comes to reporting , they say world snooker championship without mentioning amateur snooker championship.any how congratulation to all paks.
Congratulations
Thanks and wish many more victories for the players from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, ………………………………………………..
Congrats Asif! Great job.
Notice not a single Indian comment on this news. If it was a negative news related to Pakistan, there would be hundreds of Indian comments ridiculing Pakistan and thousands thumbs up of for it.
Why should we think about negative instances while we have an opportunity to be Happy?!
Don´t care about Indian comments. Let us Congratulate our brilliant boy Asif and enjoy the victory with him in the first place. Than think about other open oppotunities and possible victories instead of some comments by someone.
@peacelover, @MBA
I agree both of you.. because you both are correct..
Zara num ho to ye matti bari zarkhaiz hai saqi
Hats off, Respect!
I am looking for comments from Indians who love bashing Pakistan on any negative news, but disappear like a ghost from any news story about anything good for Pakistan. This clearly shows their mentality. So much for people who think India can ever be a sincere friend to Pakistan.
congrats dude….awesome