All set for Jubilee Insurance 44th National Snooker Championship 2019
56 players will participate in the Jubilee Insurance 44th National Snooker Championship 2019 , schedule to be held from 20th-30th March at Karachi Gymkhana, Club Road, Karachi.
56 players from 4 provinces & Islamabad which are divided into 8 groups will participate in the Jubilee Insurance 44th National Snooker Championship 2019 , schedule to be held from 20th-30th March at Karachi Gymkhana, Club Road, Karachi.
02 Players from each group will qualify for the Pre-Quarter Finals. The qualifying Rounds will be best of 7 Frames and Pre Quarter & Quarter will be best of 9 Frames. Semi Finals best of 11 Frames while Final will be best of 15 Frames.
The winner of this Jubilee Insurance 44th National Snooker Championship-2019 will qualify to represent Pakistan in the forthcoming 35th Asian Snooker Championship 2019 which is scheduled to be held at Doha, Qatar.
Defending Champion Mohammad Asif who won the national titles in 2009 and 2012 and last year at the age of 36, Asif routed challenger former national champion and third seed Mohammad Bilal as he started his year’s campaign with winning note.
The event carries total prize money of Rs 2,72,000 with winner getting Rs 100,000 and runner-up Rs 50,000 while the cueists will earn Rs 10,000 for highest break. The semifinalist will receive 20,000 each while quarter finalist will earn 10,000 and pre-quarter finalist will be awarded by 4,000 each.
Following are the participating players:
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H |
| Babar Masih (Punjab) | Muhammad Asif (Punjab) | Zulfiqar A. Qadir (Sindh) | Muhammad Majid Ali (Punjab) | Muhammad Bilal (Punjab) | Sharjeel Mehmood (KP) | Shahid Aftab (Punjab) | Rambail Gul (KP) |
| Muhammad Mudassir (Isb) | M. Hamza Ilyas (Punjab) | Shaikh M. Mudssir (Punjab) | Ahsan Ramzan (Punjab) | Ali Haider (Punjab) | Haris Tahir (Punjab) | Muhammad Ijaz (Punjab) | Aakash Rafique (KP) |
| Rabish Pervez (Bal) | Sirbuland Khan (KP) | Amir Tariq (Punjab) | Sultan Muhammad (Sindh) | Abdul Raziqm (Bal) | Shafiullah (KP) | Abdul Sattar (Sindh) | Abu Saim (Punjab) |
| Farhan Khan (KP) | Asjad Iqbal (Punjab) | Musaddiq Mehmood (Isb) | Saif Ali Khan (Bal) | Muhammad Saleem (KP) | Abdul Majid (Sindh) | Muhammad Sajjad (Punjab) | Munawar Khaliq (Isb) |
| Fazal Umar Butt (Sindh) | M. Rizwan Hashmi (Sindh) | Bahadur Khan (Bal) | Abdul Jalil (KP) | Mirza Waqas Baig (Punjab) | Saeed Khan (Bal) | Ameer Hamza Khan (Isb) | Sohail Shehzad (Sindh) |
| Muhammad Naseem Akhtar (Punjab) | Samiullah (Bal) | Fawad Khan (KP) | M. Imran Qamar (Punjab) | Farukh Usman (Sindh) | M. Ahsan Javaid (Punjab) | S. Habib Shah (Bal) | Amir Shehzad (KP) |
| Muhammad Shahbaz (Punjab) | Mubashir Raza (Punjab) | Imran Shehzad (Punjab). | Ali Raza (Sindh) | Rashid Aziz (Punjab) | Danish Haroon (Sindh) | Amir Sohail (KP) | Abdul Hameed (Bal) |
