KARACHI, Feb 4: Top seed Agha Bilawal is a step away to qualify for the coming National junior snooker championship after he stormed into pre quarter-finals of the Sindh Junior Cup snooker tournament at Aly’s Snooker Parlour on Wednesday.

Bilawal, runner up of the last edition to Umair Alam, carved out 3-1 victory over Rameez in the second round. The scores were 64-28, 67-18, 49-54, 60-39.

Top eight players of the ongoing cup will qualify for the national juniors’ event which is being held at Karachi Club from Feb 22.

Results:

Second round: Agha Bilawal bt Rameez 3-1 (64-28, 67-18, 49-54, 60-39); Yasir Khan bt Mohammad Arsalan 3-2 (40-41, 81-35, 73-44, 42-75, 58-18); Mustafa Qayoom bt Adil Wali 3-1 (66-56, 42-52, 51-44, 37-16); Ahsan Raza bt Shahbaz 3-1 (52-57, 55-47, 58-31, 58-19); Taha bin Karim bt Taimoor Hanif 3-0 (85-53, 51-26, 41-33); M. Suleman bt Shiraz Anis 3-1 (45-37, 40-58, 55-22, 73-50); Muneeb Khan bt Sajid Wali 3-0 (58-30, 50-44, 76-27); Mohammad Fahad bt Noman Usman 3-0 (59-21, 63-31, 51-28); Abdul Rehman walkover Sufyan.

Thursday’s fixtures:

Pre quarter-finals start at 1.00pm.