Bishkek, July (TNS): Pakistan’s Muhammad Sajjad won the Asian 6-Red Snooker Championship defeated Hong Kong’s Lee Chun in final in Kyrgyzstan on Sunday.
This is his second major title and the second Asian 6-Red Snooker Championship title for Pakistan. Muhammad Asif won the same title in Qatar in 2013.
Thirty-one-year-old Pakistani player Muhammad Sajjad defeated Hong Kong’s Lee Chun Wai 7-0 in a one-sided final.
Chinese referee Wang Wai supervised the final match.
Muhammad Sajjad had qualified for the final after beating another Pakistani player, Mohammad Bilal, 6-3 in the semi-finals. Interestingly, Bilal had defeated Indian defending champion Pankaj Advani 2-6 in the quarterfinals and eliminated him from the competition.
Pakistan sent four snookers players for the tournament; Muhammad Sajjad, Mohammad Bilal, Asjad Iqbal and Babar Masih.
